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Drawing fundamentals are elemental in this visually overloaded world. Visual communication is on the top right now: logos, icons, videos, companies and the social media is communicating with us visually....it is your chance to GET INVOLVED! Drawing fundamentals are the base for everything....it is a SKILL everyone should have.
The Basics of Drawing - From Line to STILL LIFE is a drawing course for TOTAL BEGINNERS taught by a Professional Art Teacher!
What can an Art teacher do? A teacher understands the subject and the students, the students needs and is able to build up a complex skill from small easy steps.
This course will take you from a single line to an appropriately drawn still life. We will cover topics like: Line, Shape, Proportion, Perspective and Shading. We will go from simple drawing techniques and warm up exercises, through contour lines and finding shapes to a full still life with shading.
You will learn how Artists see the world and how can developing your drawing skill be the most beneficial for you: its therapeutic effect (art therapy), building self-confidence, developing cognitive abilities and even starting your own business or Art journey in Illustration, character design,graphic design, digital illustration, digital painting and more.
Useful Classes:
Drawing Classes
Overview
Syllabus
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- Introduction
- Materials Needed
- How do we see the world?
- Drawing the eye
- Drawing the eye exercise
- How can learning drawing improve your life?
- Elements of drawing
- Drawing Exercise - Getting comfortable
- Drawing lines
- Drawing lines exercise
- Drawing shapes
- The Artist window
- More Contour Lines
- Finding shapes
- UPDATE: Finding Shapes More Examples
- Measuring - Basic Proportions
- Perspective
- Drawing the Still Life - instructions
- Composition Grid
- Drawing the STILL LIFE
- Simple Shading
- Shading Exercise
- Shading the Still Life
- Conclusion
