Basic Shapes Beautiful Designs
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
Have you always wanted to enjoy drawing as a fun way to pass the time and relax?
Have you admired the wonderful designs you see people draw and wish you could draw them too?
In this class, I will show you how to draw a few basic shapes and then we will experiment with ways to use them to create a multitude of simple and beautiful designs. We will play with filling a page with our creations and make drawing a daily habit. The more you draw the more you will find ways to add design and creativity into your life.
In the second part of the class I will show you how I use containers and frameworks to create more ideas with the shapes we learned and then we will walk through the process of creating a mandala design with these techniques.
What you will need:
- pencil
- felt tip pen or marker
- paper, drawing pad or sketchbook
- eraser
No drawing experience is required. The purpose of this class is to inspire you to just pick up the pencil and draw. The more we just allow ourselves to play on the paper, without judging our designs, the better we will become at drawing and the more open we will become to our own creative style.
Syllabus
- Basic Shapes Beautiful Designs
- Getting Started
- Lines & Curves
- Circles, Petals, Leaves
- Insets & Outsets
- Combining Shapes
- Freeform Drawing
- Containers
- The Mandala Framework
- Final Thoughts
Taught by
Jane Snedden Peever
Related Courses
The Art of Drawing and PaintingOpen2Study Art & Activity: Interactive Strategies for Engaging with Art
The Museum of Modern Art via Coursera Social Issues Through Comic Books
Canvas Network Introduction to Programming for the Visual Arts with p5.js
University of California, Los Angeles via Kadenze 2D Game Development with libGDX
Amazon via Udacity