Drawing Foundations: Fundamentals
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Breaks down the fundamentals of drawing, from line, tone, value, and light to negative space, perspective, and composition.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Materials overview
- Pencils
- Paper
- Erasers
- The picture plane and other materials
- Pre-instruction drawing of a cup
- Introduction to the theory of drawing
- Seeing like an artist
- The use of line
- Framing your composition
- Upside-down drawing
- Why use a picture plane?
- Preparation of the picture plane
- Using the picture plane
- How to get the best tone from your pencils
- Using a value strip
- Creating contrast
- Our first tonal-ground study
- Introducing negative space
- Negative space
- The relationship between objects
- Using negative space to create powerful compositions
- Scale and using a unit of measurement
- Simple perspective
- Viewpoint and understanding angles
- How light and shadows work
- Creating form with shadows and light
- Mark making
- Creating the final project
- The final project
- Goodbye
Taught by
Will Kemp
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