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Lifestyle Arts & Crafts Drawing

The Ultimate Drawing Masterclass: Start Drawing Better Today

Learn how to draw with this complete beginner to advanced drawing course!
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (2,519 ratings)
115,204 students
Created by Phil Ebiner, Kevin Gardin, Mitchell Bouchard, Video School
Last updated 4/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Draw any kind of art from your imagination
  • Understand drawing fundamentals and concepts like a pro
  • Draw shapes and add perspective to your artwork
  • Draw using shading and light to improve your art
  • Draw gestures that look natural and realistic
  • Complete your drawings with color
  • Know how to use composition in your drawing
  • Become confident at drawing, even if you're a complete beginner
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Requirements

  • No prior drawing or art background is required, this course starts as if you are a complete beginner
  • You'll need basic drawing materials which are covered in the course, starting with paper and pencil
  • A motivation to learn and practice while taking this course

Description

Do you want to learn how to draw?

This is the only drawing course you need to get started and draw like a pro.

You won't need to trace or copy. You will be able to draw anything you want - people, animals, cartoons, landscapes, objects - right from your imagination.

Why learn with this drawing course?

By enrolling in this drawing course, you'll learn the basic concepts that any artist needs to draw realistic and professional drawings. This course will take you from absolute beginner to feeling confident as an artist.

This course includes instant access to:

  • 26+ hours of premium video lectures

  • Downloadable guides

  • Exclusive access to a student community of like-minded students

  • Lifetime course updates

  • Premium instructor support

All of this is to help you learn how to draw, easier, quicker and more comprehensively than any other drawing course, tutorial or book.

Our student happiness guarantee

If you're not happy with the course, you can get a full refund within the first 30-days of purchase. So there's absolutely no risk in enrolling today and trying it out!

Who teaches this drawing course?

This course is a partnership between Video School Online and Kevin Gardin. Video School Online has been putting together top-rated courses taken by over one million students on Udemy since 2012. Kevin Gardin is a professional illustrator and artist from Windsor, Ontario. He has an immense passion for teaching others drawing skills, as you'll see in this course.

Drawing course overview

What will you learn in this drawing course?

  • Start with the fundamentals, learning principles like drawing definitions & terms, color theory, and more

  • Learn the tools and equipment you need to start drawing - from pencils and paper to erasers and specialty drawing tools

  • Learn how to draw basic geometric forms, the building blocks of any drawing

  • Learn how to draw the human figure with proper proportions and gestures

  • Learn how to add cloth and fabrics to your drawings, a skill that will take your art to the next level

  • Learn how to properly add shading to add dimension to your drawings

  • Learn how shapes convey different stories or language about your drawings

  • Learn how to add perspective to your drawings

  • Learn how composition can improve your art, knowing what to include from one side of the frame to the other

  • Learn how to properly display and store your artwork

  • Learn how to turn your drawings into digital art, including adding color to your art

  • and so much more!

Does this sound good to you?

We're so excited that you're here reading this course description, and know that once you enroll you won't regret it.

Click that enroll button and start drawing today!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn how to draw
  • Anyone who wishes their drawings, sketches, painting or any other kind of artwork was better
  • Anyone wishing to add drawing to their skillset for a hobby or for their career

Course content

18 sections • 125 lectures • 26h 34m total length

  • Preview02:55
  • How to Get the Most Out of this Course
    00:28
  • Download the Course Workbook
    00:06
  • Preview08:21
  • Action Item - Post Your Sketch
    00:17

  • How to Have Confidence Drawing With These Tips!
    11:26
  • Dynamic Lines
    03:10
  • Ellipses
    04:11
  • S Lines
    02:49
  • Circle Exercises - Part 1
    02:32
  • Circle Exercises - Part 2
    01:36

  • A Quick Note About This Section
    00:12
  • The Goals of the 2D Artist
    03:11
  • Creating Your Own Style!
    21:06
  • The 5 Visual Elements of Art
    06:31
  • Line Weights
    06:59
  • Tangents
    03:28
  • Color Temperature
    02:54
  • Color Theory Wheel
    04:58
  • Gestalt Theory
    10:48

  • Basic Tools - Intro Video
    00:08
  • Basic Drawing Tools
    08:47
  • Pencils and Sharpeners
    23:26
  • Strathmore 300 Bristol Paper
    02:28
  • T-Square
    01:11
  • Kneaded Eraser
    02:13
  • Pencil Case
    01:59
  • Fixative Spray
    01:27
  • DRAWING MATERIALS QUIZ! (7 Questions)
    7 questions

  • Geometric Shapes 1/3 (Pyramids)
    04:34
  • Geometric Shapes 2/3 (Cylinders, Spheres)
    06:57
  • Geometric Shapes 3/3 (Cones and Cubes)
    05:40
  • Dimensions
    07:12
  • The Golden Ratio
    11:00
  • The Flower of Life and Metatron's Cube
    09:29

  • Shading Geometric Forms - Part 1
    19:20
  • Shading Geometric Forms - Part 2
    16:20
  • Shading Tommy Toon - Part 1
    17:04
  • Shading Tommy Toon - Part 2
    17:41

  • Advanced Heads PART 1/2
    15:00
  • Advanced Heads PART 2/2
    09:11
  • Advanced Heads Master Study
    05:48
  • Intro - Drawing Monroe
    00:12
  • Drawing Monroe - Part 1
    26:05
  • Drawing Monroe - Part 2
    24:37
  • Drawing Monroe - Part 3
    22:30
  • Drawing Monroe - Part 4
    15:04
  • Drawing Monroe - Part 5
    13:04

  • Proportions of the Human Figure
    05:14
  • The Human Figure Front, Side, Arm
    16:23
  • Foreshortening
    10:37
  • Gesture Drawing - Part 1
    18:47
  • Gesture Drawing - Part 2
    08:36
  • Cartoon Hands
    05:53
  • Cartoon Feet
    06:39
  • 30 Second Gesture Drawing Poses
    16:09
  • 1 Minute Gesture Drawing Poses
    31:39

  • Pipe Folds, Spiral Folds and Zig-Zag Folds
    08:44
  • Half-Lock and Double Half-Lock Folds
    09:07
  • Thin vs. Thick Fabrics
    06:24
  • Shading Thin Fabrics
    06:24
  • COLOR, LIGHT, AND SHADOW QUIZ! (10 Questions)
    10 questions

  • Shape Language Basics
    09:05
  • Creating a Cartoon Good Guy and Bad Guy
    27:41

Instructors

Phil Ebiner
Top-Rated Instructor, 2 Million+ Students
Phil Ebiner
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 264,544 Reviews
  • 2,128,204 Students
  • 134 Courses

great courses for beginners

I'll teach you the skills necessary to stand out from the crowd. Whether it’s a personal passion or a business pursuit, you can learn video, photography, art, design, marketing skills and more here.

learn by doing

Step-by-step tutorials and project-based learning.

get support

One-on-one support from experts that truly want to help you.

don’t stress. have fun.

With our happiness guarantee, you have nothing to worry about. Become a member or join an individual course today. We have a 30-day money-back guarantee on all courses.

more about phil

My professional background is in video production and editing. I graduated from Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television in 2011. Since then, I've worked on thousands of projects that have appeared in movie theaters, film festivals, television and online.

Today, I create all kinds of things from photographs that can be seen on my Instagram to homemade sourdough bread that feeds my family. Who knows where life will take me. But I know wherever I am, I'll be creating.

Since 2012, I've been creating online courses that over two million students from around the world have taken. Course topics include everything from photography and video to design and business courses. If I can't teach it , I collaborate with other experts who share their skills with absolute beginners.

Video School is my website where you can take my online courses. You can also find them on top course platforms like Udemy.

Photography & Friends is a website and community I created to help new photographers become confident with their cameras.

I can't wait to see you in class!

- Phil

Kevin Gardin
Honours B.A of Illustration, 150,000+ Students Worldwide
Kevin Gardin
  • 4.3 Instructor Rating
  • 4,493 Reviews
  • 157,573 Students
  • 15 Courses

As your art teacher, it is my goal to prepare you for every challenge you will face when creating your first masterpiece! Through my online art school Drawcademy, I have been able to share my in-depth knowledge of drawing with thousands of students who have had incredible results. I always try to make my lessons and worksheets innovative to allow you to absorb the information and use it right away. I've spent countless hours mastering my skills and look forward to helping you create awesome art.

Academically, I'm an alumni of Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and I hold an Honours Bachelor of Illustration.  Currently I live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

You can click on the Website button to visit Drawcademy and get 1 month free access to all of my courses!

Mitchell Bouchard
B.S, Host @RedCapeLearning 360,000 Students
Mitchell Bouchard
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 20,360 Reviews
  • 360,181 Students
  • 49 Courses

Mitch is a Canadian filmmaker from Harrow Ontario, Canada. In 2016 he graduated from Dakota State University with a B.S, in Computer Graphics specializing in Film and Cinematic Arts.

Currently, Mitch operates as the Chairman of Red Cape Studios, Inc. where he continues his passion for filmmaking. He is also the Host of Red Cape Learning and Produces / Directs content for Red Cape Films.

He has reached over 360,000 + Students on Udemy and Produced more than 3X Best-Selling Courses.

Mitch is currently working Producing Online Educational Courses thru Red Cape Studios Inc.

Winning several awards at Dakota State University such as "1st Place BeadleMania", "Winner College 10th Anniversary Dordt Film Festival" as well as "Outstanding Artist Award College of Arts and Sciences".

Mitch has been Featured on CBC's "Windsors Shorts" Tv Show and was also the Producer/Director for TEDX Windsor, featuring speakers from across the Country. 


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