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Learn To Draw: A Complete Course For Beginners To Improvers

Last updated: Feb 2024

Learn To Draw: A Complete Course For Beginners To Improvers

Overview​

Have you always wanted to learn how to draw? Are you struggling to get better at drawing? Often artists appear to have a magical ability to see something – really see it – and draw what they see near perfectly. In this specialist drawing class we'll delve into those seemingly magical skills and learn how to really look at a subject and draw it.

I've been teaching Learn To Draw classes for a few years now with lots of successful results. Through my teaching experience I've been able to develop and refine a series of classes to teach anyone to learn how to draw. In this course I've taken what works best and put it together in a five part course to take you from beginner to improver! Even if you've been drawing for a while you'll find useful skills and practice exercises to take your drawing to the next level.

What You'll Learn​

  • How to see the way an artist sees
  • Practical skills for sketching and shading realistically
  • How to measure proportions and angles and translate these into your drawing
  • How to look at a subject as a combination of lines/shapes/tones
  • How to build a drawing from start to finish
  • Sketching, shading, gesture drawing, contour drawing and more

Requirements​

  • An interest in the fundamentals of drawing

Course Content​

Learn To Draw - Introduction & Materials (3 lectures • 7min)​

  • Introduction (Preview 01:56)
  • Materials (Preview 03:39)
  • Understanding Pencil Grades (01:37)

PART 1: BACK TO BASICS (12 lectures • 45min)​

  • Testing Your Pencils (03:58)
  • Understanding Sketching (01:43)
  • Pencil Grip: 3 Ways To Hold Your Pencil (Preview 01:46)
  • Sketching Basic Shapes (01:26)
  • Exercise: Sketching 3D Shapes (01:23)
  • Exercise: Shading Tonal Values (06:25)
  • Understanding Shading and Tone (01:48)
  • Exercise: Shading 3D Shapes (07:49)
  • Exercise: Shading A Sphere (05:30)
  • How To Use A Blending Stump (00:37)
  • Project: Shading A 3D Vessel (11:27)
  • Shading Summary (01:11)

PART 2: FINDING EDGES (12 lectures • 36min)​

  • Introduction to Part 2: Finding Edges (Preview 02:13)
  • Understanding Gesture (00:39)
  • Exercise: Gesture Drawing (05:22)
  • Understanding Contour (01:05)
  • Exercise: Contour Prep (01:57)
  • Exercise: Blind Contour Exercise (07:20)
  • Exercise: Modified Contour (05:11)
  • Contour Drawing Summary (00:57)
  • Understanding Negative Space (00:51)
  • Exercise: Negative Space (04:45)
  • Understanding Upside Down Drawing (00:43)
  • Exercise: Upside Down Drawing (04:38)

Part 3: In Proportion (6 lectures • 34min)​

  • Introduction to Part 3: In Proportion (01:19)
  • Understanding Sighting (01:49)
  • Exercise: Measuring One Object (10:31)
  • Exercise: Measuring Multiple Objects (14:18)
  • Proportion Summary (03:57)
  • Project: Still Life (01:50)

PART 4: Tone & Shading (7 lectures • 31min)​

  • Introduction To Part 4: Tone & Shading (Preview 01:04)
  • About Using Chalk & Charcoal (01:29)
  • Experimentation: Charcoal (Preview 04:34)
  • Exercise: Shadow Shapes (04:05)
  • Project: Charcoal Fruit (08:47)
  • Experimentation: Chalk & Charcoal (02:28)
  • Project: Tonal Drawing (08:15)

PART 5: FINAL DRAWING PROJECT (11 lectures • 1hr 2min)​

  • Introduction To Final Drawing Project (02:17)
  • Final Project: Proportion & Sketching (06:51)
  • Final Project: Negative Space (03:53)
  • Final Project: Contour Drawing (04:30)
  • Final Project: Shading (13:27)
  • Final Project: Working On Pupil & Iris (04:14)
  • Final Project: Eyelashes (09:14)
  • Final Project: Eyelids (09:18)
  • Final Project: Timelapse (04:30)
  • Final Project: Last Steps (02:53)
  • Bonus Lecture (01:07)

Target Audience​

  • Beginners interested in learning to draw realistically
  • Students who want to improve their drawing skills
  • People who want to gain a solid understanding of drawing concepts

Instructor​

Emily Armstrong is an artist and an art teacher. After finishing a Masters of Art & Design I returned to the simple joy of putting pencil to paper and just drawing. Since then drawing has become my passion as both an expressive art form and an enjoyable and mindful practice. In 2017, after 7 years of teaching art at university level I started my own school, The Pencil Room, where I teach drawing and painting classes and workshops. From here I developed The Pencil Room Online, to share my classes in a suitable format for online learning.

My approach to teaching drawing is to give my students the skills to draw anything they choose, rather than teaching the steps to drawing just one type of subject. My focus is on changing the way you look at what you see so that you perceive it in a way that can be translated onto paper. Once you can do this, you can draw anything with time and practice.

I love the simplicity of drawing and I value doodling from the imagination as much as realistic drawing. Art doesn't need to be serious, it can be simple and playful. Making art can be fun, challenging and therapeutic and it can change the way you see the world.

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