Drawing Basics

Can i use a watercolour pad, but i draw with graphite

The course was interesting and fun at the beginning, so what happened now??!!

When you convince yourself you can justify the cost of this course only to find out you have to pay 20 % VAT upon adding it to your cart... Yeah, I don't think I can justify it after all. Maybe that's for the better.

I love drawing, but I cannot pay for the course

Hi! Just started following the free version of the course, really excited to find out I could still make posts here. Although I don't have access to the project videos I've been trying my best to do them using the images in the free critique videos or just other images I find on the internet to put the theoretical stuff I've learned into practice. Here's what I've drawn so far and my commentary on it: 1. The pear! Drew it before I watched the critique video. 2. The face, had trouble with figuring out where the highlights in the hair should be, as well as just struggling with the values in general because of the red pencil. I also had trouble with simplifying the shapes where the lighter values of the face are, so those are a little more loose 3. Decided to have a go at sketching from imagination after I watched the demo, so I looked up images of toucans and drew them. 4. This one is also of toucans from reference, although I begin to try to exaggerate them a bit here 5. A page of toucans from imagination, trying to exaggerate and cartoonize them a bit 6. The full page sketch without shading 7. The final drawing. For having almost never drawn animals before I am pretty happy with how it turned out. 8. Drawn before watching the critique video (made the mistake of trying to copy it exactly lol) 9. Loose doodle of how I could try to push the gesture. Drawn after watching the critique video 10. My second attempt, after watching the critique video. Not happy with this one at all. Tried to push the gesture but I couldn't quite tell what I was supposed to push. I think it's a lot harder for me to push and exaggerate human shapes at the moment because of all the different limbs going in different directions. Was also getting increasingly frustrated which led to me rushing and my lines being bad. 11. Ended up doodling the penguin because it seemed easier and I needed to end the session on a better note lmao 12. After watching the video on habits for good line quality, and practicing the tips individually, I did a full page drawing, trying to practice all of them at once. Noticed I was struggling a lot with the S-curves, I ended up mostly separating them into multiple c-curves to be able to get them somewhat accurate. Also struggled a lot with ghosting. I mostly ended up ghosting just a little bit at the beginning of a line instead of actually following the full motion before drawing it. Finally, I also noticed that I struggle with getting a stroke that is properly tapered at the beginning and not just the end. Overall I'm pretty happy with the final drawing. 13. The reference picture for the previous drawing. Chose to draw something more cartoony so I could focus on the lines that are already clearly there instead of worrying about simplifying a realistic image. (art is by Sage Cotugno, I believe) 14. Drew cubes to test the different ways to use line weight! (don't know if my shading makes sense on any of these) This is the Hierarchy of Importance one. 15. The Depth and Form cube 16. The Light and Shadow cube. Any qritique (both positive and negative) on both the drawings themselves or my mindset/reasoning is of course heavily appreciated!! Also sorry for the incredibly long post xd

Hi! Started the course to work on my drawing skills- did the pear and the portrait so far. Left drawing is before the demo, right is while watching/copying the demo. I think I misunderstood part of the point of the assignment once I got to the portrait because I couldn't quite see the differences in shadow and didn't realize we could still use guidelines to help place features, so the face is super wonky. Also definitely got frustrated with it because of that lol. Planning on repeating the portrait assignment with a different image at some point to get more practice. Also these were both done with a 0.7 mm mechanical pencil- I have some better pencils I'll use in the future.

I just drew the snail and I know it doesn't look good, but I see other people's drawings. And I don't see how y'all make the head look like that, this is the way I see it.

Yo, my name is Oliver, I'm 15 years old and I am really excited to join this community

If I purchase this course now do I also gain access to future videos released for the same course?

I'm back again after a long break, looking forward to picking up where I left off! During the break I did some drawings and pastel art and others noticed my skills have gone to a new level, thanks Stan!

Hi guys I'm new here but I'm learning something

Back on this course again after a brief hiatus... One of my goals in 2025 is to improve my drawing skills, hopefully be able to do some full poses by the end of it! Wish me luck xx

Hey, I'm starting the course again after a long illness. How do I download and print the reference photos, like the boots and penguin, etc.?

I bought some Staedler lomo graph pencils and a sketchbook to start my art career looking forward to this course

Hi everyone i'm just 13 years old and looking forward to become that artist

Hi everyone! I have just bought this course and am looking forward to being a part of the community! I have tried drawing the pears and the face, I think I need to rethink my pencil as I'm currently using a fat graphite one and it's not ideal. I'm happy with some parts of the face but the mouth area is a bit dodgy. Apologies for the lighting, that is genuinely the best I could do for now 😅

Okay 👍, I hope that I will learn great

Is it recommended I do this course on paper, or can I do all the assignments on my tablet

Another try