Improve Your Drawing Skills

Overview

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Drawing is an essential skill for working in a creative role. This learning path demonstrates ways you can refine, enhance, and enrich what you illustrate. Explore additional sketching techniques, working with perspective, factoring for light, rendering shadows, and more.

Discover the impact of line, tone, negative space, and scale.
Practice sketching and constructing perspective.
Create digital drawings and work with vectors.

Syllabus

Course 1: Drawing Foundations: Fundamentals

Breaks down the fundamentals of drawing, from line, tone, value, and light to negative space, perspective, and composition.

Course 2: Drawing Foundations: Figure

Explore the basics of figure drawing and how to bring the human form to life on paper. Learn how to capture gesture and motion, work with live models, and understand human anatomy.

Course 3: Drawing Foundations: Light and Shadow

Learn how to see and replicate light and shadow in your drawings.

Course 4: Drawing 2-Point Perspective

Explore the basics of two-point perspective drawing, including asymmetrical and symmetrical perspectives, and learn to draw interior and exterior scenes more accurately.

Course 5: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching

Learn how to draw from life—in an urban setting. Will Kemp shows how to draw buildings, street scenes, cafés, and people, as well as the bustling movement of cities and towns.

Course 6: Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape

Learn how to quickly capture the atmosphere and mood of a landscape like an artist, and take the next step from sketching at home to sketching outside.

Course 7: 21-Day Drawing Challenge

Take 21-day journey to improve your drawing skills and incorporate drawing into your life as a daily practice.

Course 8: Illustrator: Perspective Drawing

Add a sense of depth and space with powerful perspective tools in Illustrator. Learn how to draw in perspective and add, position, and scale objects so they blend with your scene.

Course 9: Drawing Vector Graphics: Isometric Illustration

Learn how to create detailed isometric views of buildings, vehicles, and even people, with Adobe Illustrator.

Course 10: Drawing Vector Graphics: Color and Detail

Add depth, texture, and color to your designs with Adobe Illustrator, and make your illustrations more visually effective.

Taught by

Will Kemp, Amy Wynne Visual Artist, Will Kemp, Amy Wynne Visual Artist, Will Kemp, Will Kemp, Von Glitschka, Kevin Stohlmeyer, Von Glitschka and Von Glitschka