Introduction to Drawing

The Introduction to Drawing course is a great program that will teach you how to draw one lesson at a time. The program is simple, you’ll watch one video lesson that will introduce an essential drawing skill or technique, and then do the recommended practice yourself. It offers some of the clearest, most accessible drawing instruction available from an experienced secondary school art teacher.

Lesson 1 - Introduction to Drawing Techniques

In this lesson, you will learn quick ways to create sketches and ideas for future work. This is an essential way of recording your ideas as an artist.

You will also gain some knowledge about appropriate light, shadow, texture, and form.

Lesson 2 - Developing Observational Drawing

In this lesson, you'll learn how to observe an object/image properly to understand its shape and form.

You will learn how to simplify objects to make them easier to look at and draw, how to use the grid method to accurately proportion your drawing, as well as some valuable shading techniques to make your drawing look 3D.

Lesson 3 - Detailed Mark Making

In this lesson, you'll learn and develop ways of adding texture and tone to your drawing to make it look expressive and realistic as well as how and why tone is important to bring your drawing to life.

Lesson 4 - Expressive Mark Making

In this lesson, you will learn how to add feelings and expressions into your drawing by using stick and inks, and how to experiment and develop your skills in a controlled and safe environment.

Lesson 5 - Portrait Drawing

This lesson focuses on how to measure up a portrait accurately and learn how to make estimates around these calculations depending on the person they are drawing.

You'll learn some shading techniques, and a process and structure to creating a drawing from start to finish, that’s easy for anyone to manage! We also show how to simplify objects to make them easy to draw.

Lesson 6 - Drawing Close-Up Features

You will learn some techniques on how to observe images for fine details and develop your shading techniques picked up in previous classes, focused on the facial features, like mouth, nose, and eyes, to enable you to complete your portrait drawing.