Learn To Draw: A Complete Course For Beginners To Improvers
What you'll learn
- How to see the way an artist sees
- Practical skills for sketching and shading realistically
- How to measure proportions and angles and translate these into your drawing
- How to look at a subject as a combination of lines/shapes/tones
- How to build a drawing from start to finish
- Sketching, shading, gesture drawing, contour drawing and more
Requirements
- An interest in the fundamentals of drawing
Description
Have you always wanted to learn how to draw? Are you struggling to get better at drawing? Often artists appear to have a magical ability to see something – really see it – and draw what they see near perfectly. In this specialist drawing class we'll delve into those seemingly magical skills and learn how to really look at a subject and draw it.
I've been teaching Learn To Draw classes for a few years now with lots of successful results. Through my teaching experience I've been able to develop and refine a series of classes to teach anyone to learn how to draw. In this course I've taken what works best and put it together in a five part course to take you from beginner to improver! Even if you've been drawing for a while you'll find useful skills and practice exercises to take your drawing to the next level.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The aim of this course is to enable the student to change the way they see - to look at what they are drawing as a series of lines, shapes and tones and to be able to successfully translate this onto paper. Each part of the course below covers a key aspect of learning to draw and includes explanations, exercises and a practice project.
Part 1: Sketching and Shading Basics
Part 2: Looking at Edges
Part 3: Proportion
Part 4: Tone & Shading
Part 5: Final Drawing Project: The Eye
To succeed at drawing requires practice, practice, practice! - It's very similar to learning a musical instrument - you can understand all the theory in the world but to become competent at playing you need to put in the practice. To successfully improve your drawing will require a commitment to practicing and I suggest spreading this course out over 5-6 weeks with self-practice in between classes. I'm more than happy to give you feedback on your drawing or answer any questions you may have along the way!
Who this course is for:
- Beginners interested in learning to draw realistically
- Students who want to improve their drawing skills
- People who want to gain a solid understanding of drawing concepts
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 755 Reviews
- 3,964 Students
- 6 Courses
Hi, I'm Emily, I'm an artist and an art teacher. After finishing a Masters of Art & Design I returned to the simple joy of putting pencil to paper and just drawing. Since then drawing has become my passion as both an expressive art form and an enjoyable and mindful practice. In 2017, after 7 years of teaching art at university level I started my own school, The Pencil Room, where I teach drawing and painting classes and workshops. From here I developed The Pencil Room Online, to share my classes in a suitable format for online learning.
My approach to teaching drawing is to give my students the skills to draw anything they choose, rather than teaching the steps to drawing just one type of subject. My focus is on changing the way you look at what you see so that you perceive it in a way that can be translated onto paper. Once you can do this, you can draw anything with time and practice.
I love the simplicity of drawing and I value doodling from the imagination as much as realistic drawing. Art doesn't need to be serious, it can be simple and playful. Making art can be fun, challenging and therapeutic and it can change the way you see the world.
Happy Drawing!
Emily
Master Art & Design