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Skillshare

Drawing course for TOTAL BEGINNERS - From Line to STILL LIFE

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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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