Become a Visual Artist

Define your personal style by noting your favorite techniques and what art you love, compare color painter and shape artist, and consider abstraction, expressionist poetry, and installation or sculpture techniques.

Master watercolor techniques that fuse drawing and painting, from textured paper and precise linework to oil pastels, acrylics, and water-based layers that encourage expressive, surrealist experimentation.

Identify money shadows and multiple income streams by setting a realistic monthly income goal, converting it to a daily target, and dividing it across each art revenue channel and activity.

Choose your artistic path by examining venues, markets, and roles you want—gallery, museum, magazines, fairs, auctions, or teaching. Weigh motivations from money to fulfillment, and compare contemporary versus modern art.

Practice texture in drawing and painting to build foundational skills in representing surface quality and texture variation.

Explore the historical roots of image making, blending figurative and abstract art, the rise of writing, and key movements from cubism to conceptual art.

Examine crucial artists who shaped modern art, from Picasso’s cubism and color shapes to Kandinsky’s abstract evolution, with Guernica and postwar sculpture and European formalism.

Explore essential art movements—from impressionism and expressionism to surrealism and abstract art—and examine how modern art evolves through new media, street art, and conceptual ideas.

Explore famous artist quotes and the idea that art reveals reality rather than imitation, featuring insights from Picasso and other masters on the supreme artist.

Explore how realism in photography and cinema challenged painting as the sole art form, sparking cubism, abstract visual composition, and a conceptual shift away from the physical art object.

Explore experimental techniques across drawing, painting, sculpture, and new media, from using any material as a medium to ready-made concepts, performance art, and music-inspired illustration.

Explore out-of-the-box thinking that reframes art as philosophy and dialogue, leveraging print-on-demand and digital publishing to analyze art, critique the artist mindset, and question why we create.

Understand abstract art through materials, colors, shapes, and textures, recognizing creativity begins in the artist's heart before surfacing on the canvas, and explore conceptual art debates on idea versus material.

Explore collage techniques within drawing and painting to build textured compositions. Develop expressive artworks by layering elements to enhance visual rhythm and depth.

Explore online marketing ideas for artists by leveraging Instagram visuals with keywords, Facebook groups with rules, Pinterest boards, and a niche YouTube channel.

Execute offline marketing ideas by distributing personal cards, build a one-page grid portfolio in Word, study gallery styles, attend art inaugurations, and engage with online and offline art communities.

Plan to spend only a quarter of earnings, use credit cards and PayPal for online payments, and build multiple sustainable income streams from art with value-for-money choices.

Organize your time like money, decide your main activity, adjust goals with context, limit online hours, avoid games and highly addictive activities, and protect quality time with family and friends.

Practice sculpture within drawing and painting to develop hands-on skills and explore three-dimensional form through guided sculptural exercises.

Discover ways to attain artistic recognition by choosing online or offline venues like trade shows, galleries, and studios, and determine whether speed or a steady, long-term career fits you.

choose your main activity to achieve financial stability as an artist, defining priorities and using daily activities to support a sustainable future while keeping passion for art alive.

Achieve online offline time balance to sustain your art practice and discover your personal style, selecting the right mix of sites, optimizing time, and taking breaks to support your well-being.

Choose what to sell, when to sell, and at what price for art, including prints and originals, while exploring online income streams, tax obligations, shipping, and exhibitions.

Evaluate your current situation and set achievable goals to attain success on your own terms. Reassess present, dream then do, and keep setting new goals for your creative activities.

Practice object drawing in the drawing and painting course to reinforce focus on objects during practice.

Explore modern art basics and develop your own artistic voice through concise PowerPoint presentations that summarize important visual arts concepts, including the link between conceptual art and linguistics.

Explore art history in an intro lecture for drawing and painting, connecting historical ideas to creative practice.

Explore five art movements and techniques to compose images: abstract art, cubism for figures, Pollock's dripping action painting, surrealist perspective with long shadows, and be yourself in painting.

Trace art history from prehistoric times to the invention of writing by Sumerians and Egyptians, then medieval art, Renaissance perspective, and the 20th-century Impressionist revolution.

Discover five tips on western abstract art, its origins, and the early 20th century shift toward geometrical abstraction with Kandinsky as a modern art pioneer.

Explore abstract art, its definition and perspective, how culture shaped it, and its evolution through cubism, expressionism, post-impressionism, and the geometrical trend.

Learn five key facts about cubism, its origins in primitive art, and Picasso's role, and examine how cubism influenced modern art, abstract art, cinema, and photography in an artistic revolution.

Explore cubism, one of the most influential art movements, tracing its Paris origins in the 1910s–1920s, its analytic and synthetic phases, and its visual shift in painting and sculpture.

Explore surrealism: five facts about this art movement, psycho analysis by fried, and how the european social consequences of the First World War inspired Britain to create surrealism.

Explore surrealism's origins, Dada roots, Freud's ideas, and the techniques shaping dream landscapes that defined the movement while surveying key artists like Salvador Dali, Ernst, Tanguy, and Cardoso.

Define expressionism in five steps and explore its roots in Europe’s complex political scene, then survey the best known expressionist painting and suggest personal insights.

Explore expressionism in drawing and painting, tracing its roots from impressionism to humanist themes, and study artists like Edvard Munch and Jackson Pollock, including dripping and draping techniques.

Explore how art themes and game changers reshape drawing and painting—from landscape and still life to sculpture and mixed media—highlighting Turner, the impressionists, Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse, Bacon, and Rauschenberg.

Explore expressionist dripping and radical painting techniques, from Pollock's floor-dance to mixed media works. Trace surrealist methods and color-form connections across Mondrian, Kandinsky, Duchamp, and others.

Explore five drawing techniques by Paul Kelly and trace styles from Dali's detail to Escher's precision and Haring's graffiti influence, highlighting drawing's essential role in visual arts.

Delve into five painting styles across architectural, mural, and urban landscape works, featuring icons like Kandinsky, Rivera, Lowry, and Portuguese abstract painters, and explore German expressionist and abstract art foundations.

Explore architectural, naked, and performance sculpture through artists like Louise Bourgeois and Nikki and Tony Gowdy. Trace how clay and absence of matter shape new classics and humanistic sculpture.

Explore drawing and painting practice and installation concepts to approach creative work with clarity and focus.

Learn to create high-end artworks with simple materials, starting with pure black pen on white paper, then transition from drawing to illustration to painting with markers, pencils, and acrylics.

Explore how diverse artworks emerge from very simple materials, using pen lines, horizons and perspective, collage, watercolor, color pencils, oil pastels, and mixed-media techniques.

Explore how simple materials can create powerful mixed-media artworks on canvas, combining ropes, fabric, pastels, inks, and glue to achieve maximum visual effect with minimal resources.

Explore how some great artists excel as painters while lacking draftsmanship, discussing four artists, their strengths and weaknesses, to deepen understanding of modern and contemporary art and their contributions.

learn how artists with simple drawing foundations create expressive paintings through patient color work, texture, and bold contrasts, illustrated by basquiat, samson, matisse, and picasso.

Adopt a direct ink drawing method with black pen for pure contrast. Translate your work to digital processes, then explore mixed-media painting with watercolor, oil pastel, and acrylic.

Practice conceptual drawing and painting. Practice drawing and painting to reinforce the conceptual approach in the course.

Choose acid-free paper and the right type to resist humidity and other elements that harm drawings. Use waterproof or India ink and store works in plastic sheets within portfolios.

Draw human characters in black and white using circles for heads and lines for bodies, layered with symbols and asymmetrical limbs. Use geometric shapes and diagonal shading to convey movement.

Explore black and white drawings in abstract, surrealist, and expressionist styles, featuring strong characters, shadows, triangles, vanishing points, and perspective to convey deep space and motion.

Explore the first phase of my drawings, featuring large heads with bold black shapes, crosses above the head, and symbolic and magical elements around the figure.

Explore how realism blends with dream through light-table techniques to copy lines and build realist drawings, then transform them with abstract symbols, collage montages, and stylistic twists.

Discover the artist's recent style in drawing, centered on a main character with shadow, horizontal and perspective lines, vanishing point, and detailed expressive compositions, including letters and symbols.

Watch how three personal interpretations of other artists' drawings demonstrate how to create versions from existing works. The study highlights expressionist influences, surrealist elements, vanishing-point composition, and adding original details.

Explore different kinds of drawings through simple geometric compositions using circles, squares, lines, and horizon elements, expressed in black and white with several variations.

Explore drawing approaches by creating asymmetrical characters, using a ripping technique to make symbols with free wrist, and blending surrealist shadows with abstract elements to cultivate a unique artistic voice.

Develop your own artistic style by embracing black-and-white drawing, as Art Spigelman and Frank Miller show, and remember: to draw is to take a line for a walk.

practice digital drawing and painting to strengthen skills in drawing and painting in this course.

Explore an eight-step illustration process from brainstorming and simplifying ideas to image searches, photo editing, and collage, then drawing, digitizing, and producing print-ready files for professional printing.

Explore how to locate high-quality images and vector illustrations on sites like eBay, identify free downloads with licenses for commercial use, and navigate copyright considerations.

Create a photo collage by layering elements, using the lasso tool to select and position them, apply color fills, and preserve a transparent background for editing.

Learn to set up and use a light table with vegetable transparency paper and white paper, transfer lines in pure black, and digitize as bitmap.

Transform a digital image into a print-ready file by rotating 90 degrees, trimming margins, and producing pure black lines on a transparent background for Word-ready professional printing.

Digitalize the illustration and save as BMP with a transparent background. Insert the image into Word, resize to 21 by 29 cm, ensure margins, and export as pdf.

Practice drawing and painting in the Drawing & Painting course; practice drawing and painting in the Drawing & Painting course.