Drawing 101: Introduction to Digital Illustration

Explore the foundations of illustration by learning the techniques to draw from observation and from your own imagination

• Introduction
• How to Get Better at Drawing
• Understanding Basic 3D
• How to Create
• Final project

Drawing is a skill anyone can pick up. Apart from understanding the theoretical aspect, it is all a matter of practice. Illustrator Jean Fraisse, a firm believer that talent can be learned, is here to teach you the principles of drawing in digital illustration.

Discover the narrative power of drawing by creating illustrations from observation and imagination. Explore lines, angles, and shapes to create striking drawings in your own style.

This is Jean Fraisse’s fifth course at Domestika. If you are interested in learning about color theory in digital illustration, see Color Theory: How to Apply It to Your Images. If you’d like to learn how to design characters for animation, take a look at Introduction to Design of Characters for Animation and Video Games. You can find all his courses here.

• About Me
• Influences
• What Is Drawing?
• Every Single Thing Is Made Out of Simple Shapes
• How to Actually Draw
• Angles, the First Secret of Drawing
• Proportions, the Second Secret of Drawing 1
• Proportions, the Second Secret of Drawing 2
• How to Convert a Square Into a Cube
• The Horizon Explanation and How It Solves It All
• One-Point and Two-Point Perspective
• Copying Architecture 1
• Copying Architecture 2
• Copying the Human Body 1
• Copying the Human Body 2
• Applying Light and Shadow
• A Basic Understanding of Design
• The Elements of a Good Sketch
• Let’s Create Something
• Duplicating and Reshaping
• Exaggerate and Deform
• Drawing 101: Introduction to Digital Illustration