The picture plane is like a window that helps solve perspective problems in drawing.

Taking a look into how eye level and horizon are the same for you, the viewer—not necessarily for the characters in your artwork.

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.

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.

Refining values and shapes to add depth, volume, and cohesion to a drawing.

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

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

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

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.

Before we start, let's go over tools. I've included an extensive materials shopping list of paper, pencils, markers, erasers, and sharpeners.

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.

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

All the ways I sharpen pencils. Wooded and woodless graphite pencils, 2.0 and 5.6mm mechanical pencils, charcoal pencils, and eraser pencils!

Course introduction, structure, materials needed, resources, proposed schedule, as well as your first lesson.

In this course, you'll learn how to transform a flat surface into a deep, realistic world using perspective.

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

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

A beginner's guide to pencils and erasers! A breakdown of the many different pencil and eraser options out there.

I'm focusing on general facial proportions, using the Loomis method to divide the head into thirds for placing features on male and female faces.