How to Draw

Experience the joy of drawing - a skill anyone can learn - in this brilliantly designed course that teaches you how to draw landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and more.

Topics Covered:

• By This Professor
• 01: An Introduction to Drawing
• 02: Drawing Materials for Line
• 03: Drawing Fundamentals and First Exercises
• 04: Line and Shape: Line and Aggregate Shape
• 05: Line and Shape: Volume and Figure-Ground
• 06: Line and Shape: Positive and Negative Shape
• 07: Composition: The Format and Its Armature
• 08: Composition: How Artists Compose
• 09: Line and Shape: Line Attributes and Gesture
• 10: Composition: Shape and Advanced Strategies
• 11: Proportion: Alberti's Velo
• 12: Proportion: Accurate Proportion and Measure
• 13: Creating Volume and Illusionistic Space
• 14: Six Complex Drawing Projects
• 15: Linear Perspective: Introduction
• 16: Linear Perspective: The Quad
• 17: Linear Perspective: The Gridded Room
• 18: Linear Perspective: Ellipses and Pattern
• 19: Linear Perspective: Advanced Topics
• 20: Value: How Artists Use Value
• 21: Value: Drawing Materials for Value
• 22: Value: Black and White and a Value Scale
• 23: Value: Eight Complex Drawing Projects
• 24: Value: Side Light and Cast Shadow
• 25: Value: Oblique Light and Cast Shadow
• 26: Texture: Mark Making and Optical Value
• 27: Texture: How Artists Use Texture
• 28: Color: Color Theory and Color and Light
• 29: Color: How Artists Use Color
• 30: Color: Color Drawing Projects
• 31: The Figure: A Canon of Proportions
• 32: The Figure: The Head, Hands, and Feet
• 33: The Figure: Artistic Anatomy
• 34: The Figure: Drawing Projects
• 35: Advanced Concepts: Pictorial Space