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Drawing Fundamentals 1: Basic Skills & Sketching Accurately
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Drawing Fundamentals 1: Basic Skills & Sketching Accurately

Sketching & Drawing Basics For the Absolute Beginners. Learn to See and Draw Anything Accurately!
Created byEthan Nguyen
Last updated 11/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • How to set up your workspace for optimal drawing success.
  • How to hold and control your pencil to create smooth, clean lines.
  • The most common mistakes beginning artists make and how to avoid them.
  • How to measure angles and use them to draw anything accurately!
  • How to spot proportional errors in your drawing and fix them.
  • How to use a variety of lines and marks to create dynamic drawings!
  • And a whole lot more!

Course content

3 sections30 lectures3h 4m total length
  • Setting Up Your Workspace5:29

    Learn how to set up your workspace for optimum success

  • How to Sharpen Your Pencil3:46

    Learn how to sharpen your pencil like an artist

  • How to Hold Your Pencil5:48

    Learn the different ways to hold your pencil for drawing

  • How to Control Your Pencil2:19

    Learn how to control your pencil to create dynamic marks

  • Circle & Ellipse Exercise3:36

    Learn how to draw circles and ellipses properly

  • Running the Track Exercise4:24

    A great exercise for developing hand dexterity

  • Line Quality Exercise3:41

    Learn how to create clean lines

  • Connect the Dot Exercise3:27

    A great exercise to help you draw smooth and precise lines and curves

  • Quiz 1 - Basic Pencil Control

Requirements

  • No previous drawing experience needed! This course is designed for the complete beginner.

Description

Do you want to learn how to draw but don't know where to begin?

In this 1st course of the Drawing Fundamentals Made Simple series, you're going to learn all the foundational skills you'll need to be successful at drawing.

Discover the Foundational Skills that Every Artist Needs

We'll begin by showing you how to properly hold and control your pencil. This might seem really simple, but many of the most common problems plaguing new artists stem from not knowing how to properly control the pencil.

By mastering this aspect from the beginning, you'll be able to improve much more quickly.

Then you'll be given simple, fun exercises with printable worksheets that will help you draw smooth, clean lines and curves.

Once your hand dexterity has improved, you'll learn the measuring skills that every artist needs. You'll discover how to measure angles and distances to make your drawings accurate and proportional.

Then we'll go through step-by-step exercises that will help you master these concepts. We'll begin with drawing simple 2D shapes and then progress to 3D objects.

By the end of this course, you'll have a firm grasp of how to measure what you see in order to draw anything accurately.

This course is designed for the complete beginner, so even if you've never picked up a pencil before, you'll be able to follow along without being overwhelmed.

If you're a beginner who wants to learn the fundamentals skills of drawing so you can jump-start your artistic career the right way, then this course is for you!

This course comes with a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee so if you are not completely in love with the course for any reason, you can get every penny of your money back!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn the essential skills of drawing so they can jump start their artistic journey.