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Drawing course for TOTAL BEGINNERS - From Line to STILL LIFE

Offered By: Skillshare

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Drawing Courses Graphic Design Courses Character Design Courses Line Art Courses Digital Painting Courses Shading Courses

Course Description

Overview

Drawing fundamentals are elemental in this visually overloaded world. Visual communication is on the top right now: logos, icons, videos, companies and the social media is communicating with us visually....it is your chance to GET INVOLVED! Drawing fundamentals are the base for everything....it is a SKILL everyone should have.

The Basics of Drawing - From Line to STILL LIFE is a drawing course for TOTAL BEGINNERS taught by a Professional Art Teacher!

What can an Art teacher do? A teacher understands the subject and the students, the students needs and is able to build up a complex skill from small easy steps. 

This course will take you from a single line to an appropriately drawn still life. We will cover topics like: Line, Shape, Proportion, Perspective and Shading. We will go from simple drawing techniques and warm up exercises, through contour lines and finding shapes to a full still life with shading.

You will learn how Artists see the world and how can developing your drawing skill be the most beneficial for you: its therapeutic effect (art therapy), building self-confidence, developing cognitive abilities and even starting your own business or Art journey in Illustration, character design,graphic design, digital illustration, digital painting and more.

Useful Classes:

Drawing Classes


Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Materials Needed
  • How do we see the world?
  • Drawing the eye
  • Drawing the eye exercise
  • How can learning drawing improve your life?
  • Elements of drawing
  • Drawing Exercise - Getting comfortable
  • Drawing lines
  • Drawing lines exercise
  • Drawing shapes
  • The Artist window
  • More Contour Lines
  • Finding shapes
  • UPDATE: Finding Shapes More Examples
  • Measuring - Basic Proportions
  • Perspective
  • Drawing the Still Life - instructions
  • Composition Grid
  • Drawing the STILL LIFE
  • Simple Shading
  • Shading Exercise
  • Shading the Still Life
  • Conclusion

Taught by

The Artmother

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