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Essential Drawing
Rating: 4.3 out of 5(45 ratings)
405 students

Essential Drawing

The information you need to get better at drawing.
Created byAshley Bane Hurst
Last updated 10/2015
English

What you'll learn

  • Draw realistically from observation. These skills are applicable in illustration, design and artmaking.

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Course content

4 sections • 18 lectures • 2h 42m total length

  • Introduction4:26

    This video outlines the course lessons and their respective topics.

  • Line7:06

    This video outlines the course lessons and their respective topics.

  • Shape5:56

    Learn to use simple shapes like rectangles and triangles to draw complex subject matter.

  • Form16:38

    Learn to use a single light source to describe forms such as cubes, pyramids, cones and cylinders.

  • Space7:53

    Learn to see and use five different, but interrelated, way of creating space and depth in a drawing.

  • Value7:45

    Learn to use a value scale to accurately and efficiently add light-and-shadow to your drawings.

Requirements

  • The only required materials are a pencil, drawing paper and an eraser. Optional materials include a pen, india ink and block printing ink.

Description

Essential Drawing is an eighteen video drawing course meant to give students a foundational understanding of drawing practices. The two main goals of Essential Drawing are to teach drawing skills through the elements-of-art and to cover the major approaches to drawing that have stood the test of time. You don't need a lot of expensive art supplies to get better at drawing - just paper, a pencil and an eraser. If you have a brush and black watercolor paint you can use that too. If you want to improve your drawing skills, or if you draw well but want to learn a variety of methods to add to your bag of tricks, then this course is for you. A reference image accompanies many of the video lessons so that you'll have no trouble following along.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for beginners with limited formal instruction. If your drawings are often mistaken for photographs this course may not be for you.

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