Learn how to transform a 2D plan into 3D forms by assigning heights to its features.

Learn how to gesture hands by breaking them into simple parts and focusing on shape, rhythm, and expression to support storytelling in your drawings.

Marshall reviews the "melted pancakes" assignment submissions to teach how ellipses and perspective affect depth and realism.

Learn how to draw an airplane in top, side, and front views using orthographic projection.

An intro to shading light and shadow with a template of common value zones to make it easier to structure your shading.

Gesture drawing demo focused on handling complex poses with asymmetry, rhythm, and storytelling through expressive lines and movement.

Here’s a project to help you avoid chicken scratch. We’re going to simplify our drawings to C curves, S curves, and straight lines.

In this video, I’ll give you an in depth look at what you’ll learn in my Drawing Basics course.

There is an endless number of ways to use lines as an artist, so let's jump in and take a look at the basics.

A beginner's guide to sketchbooks and paper! Learn about paper types, texture, weight, archivability, and common pitfalls.

Gesture drawing tips for handling complex poses through abstraction, balance, and expressive rhythm.

Drawing is a visual language that can be learned just like any other language, and anyone can pick it up with the right guidance and practice.

The first project of the Drawing Basics course is to challenge yourself to simplify the shapes, edges, and values of a pear or portrait from observation.

In this project, we'll start learning how to sketch using simple loose lines.

This warmup is a fun way to help you practice drawing ellipses.

Master line quality with 6 key habits: avoid common mistakes, find a comfortable speed, follow-through, ghosting, rotate the paper, and use simple strokes.

Master the Tapered Stroke for confident line quality in your sketches! Learn how to construct complex shapes & add energy to your loose sketches.

Your final assignment is to create an unforgettable comic cover using everything you've learned to design a piece that grabs attention and tells a story.

Here is my step-by-step demo on how to properly execute the first assignment for level 1 students.