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Fundamentals of Drawing Anything - Shading, pencils, more

Learn to draw well
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (488 ratings)
3,010 students
Created by Neil Fontaine
Last updated 2/2019
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • You will learn how to draw anything by mastering the fundamentals of drawing, shading, form, light, shadow, etc.

Requirements

  • At least a pencil, piece of paper, and the willingness to learn.

Description

Hi, welcome to the fundamentals of drawing anything, where you’ll learn how to draw anything you want from imagination or from reference. I’m Neil Fontaine, a professional comic artist, and traditional painter but also the easy-going instructor for this course.

I show you all the fundamentals of drawing that will give you the foundation to draw anything. By the end of this course, you will be able to draw in a new way that lets you break down any complex picture into simple forms. More importantly, you will be able to draw from your imagination.

In this course, we will learn light, shadow, shading, form, perspective, shapes, and we will learn how to properly hold our pencil and draw nice lines. Then we will put all this together and sketch a landscape and draw realism.

I also help you along the way by answering your questions and giving feedback on your progress drawings.

This course is for the beginning artist that wish to draw like a pro. Feel free to look through the course. I’ll see you inside.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn to draw well.

Featured review

Deanne During
Deanne During
21 courses
16 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
I have taken courses before but this is one of the best, I believe I should have begun with this and then the others, basic shapes are absolutely the way to learn......I was drawing from what I thought the shape was. I was wrong. I love this course and seriously recommend this course to any artist learning or not go back to basics never forget where it started. I little confusing at times when trying to draw lines from point to point but over all I loved this course

Course content

9 sections • 41 lectures • 9h 10m total length

  • Preview17:16
  • Draw references for this course
    00:00
  • How to draw small lines for details
    10:49
  • How to draw curved lines with your wrist
    10:53
  • How to draw straight lines
    05:03
  • Putting it all together to draw perfect lines
    11:04

  • How to draw using basic shapes
    15:38
  • How to draw a bunny using basic shapes
    15:08
  • How to draw an apple with basic shapes
    05:37
  • How to draw a cool fish with basic shapes
    12:21
  • How to draw anything with basic shapes
    19:22

  • How to draw an eye, blocking in the shapes
    19:27
  • How to draw an eye part 2
    12:39

  • Why to draw using 3D shapes
    06:00
  • How to draw the cone from different angles
    15:59
  • How to draw the cylinder from different angles
    14:18
  • How to draw squished spheres
    08:47
  • How to draw cubes from different angles
    19:55

  • How to shade a sphere to look 3D
    19:17
  • How to shade a cylinder to look 3D
    08:41
  • How to shade a cone to look 3D
    09:47
  • How to shade a cube to look 3D
    07:03

  • Beginning to understand light and shadow
    17:58
  • How direct like works to make objects look 3D
    19:19
  • How to figure out the direction of the light
    15:14
  • How to draw drop shadows
    19:24
  • How to draw form shadows
    04:59
  • How to draw bounce light.
    17:07
  • How highlights work and how to draw them
    18:49

  • Preview16:10
  • Drawing a Kitchen scene in one point perspective
    14:14
  • Two point perspective made easy
    19:45
  • Drawing a bedroom scene in two point perspective
    19:34
  • How to draw shadows in two point perspective
    18:16
  • How to easily draw in three point perspective
    19:16
  • Continuing with 3 point perspective
    04:58
  • How to draw objects the correct size in perspective
    11:20
  • How to foreshorten and overlap objects
    18:56

  • How to sketch a landscape
    09:20
  • How to draw a bell pepper
    18:38

  • Conclusion - Thanks for watching
    01:59

Instructor

Neil Fontaine
Art Instructor, Professional Painter, Writer
Neil Fontaine
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 9,875 Reviews
  • 84,929 Students
  • 18 Courses

I'm a best selling author on Amazon for "How to Draw Awesome Figures."

I studied art at different schools, one of them being a community college in San Jose, Ca. Over the years, subjects in art finally clicked. I teach these subjects in ways that make it easy to grasp. It's hard to brag about myself, but students have written me emails saying how they have learned more from me than they did in art schools, art schools such as Academy of Arts in San Franscico. That blew my mind because it's supposed to be a great school. 

I also sell abstract paintings that I painted while meditating. A recent painting sold for $10,963. If enough art students ask, I will make a course on how to abstract paint. You can see my paintings at saatchiArt

I'm also a writer that has sold novels.

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