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Skillshare

Learn to Draw: Daily Practices to Improve Your Drawing Skills

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Overview

In this class, we’ll walk through basic fundamentals to build your drawing skills!

You'll learn how to see your subjects as basic shapes, how to place your subject on your paper with simple angles, and how to draw by seeing the negative space. I'll share measuring tricks that will help you draw accurately, exercises that will help you activate your creative right brain, and I'll share how you can find beautiful rhythms in your subjects.

We'll also go over five project ideas to help you practice the techniques learned in class. From drawing from life to drawing from the masters, I'll demonstrate my personal approach and how I apply the techniques in each example.

If you've always wanted to learn how to draw, but have been scared to start, join in today to learn new ways of seeing the world around you.

I'd love to help you in your journey of drawing. This class shows examples in both traditional media (pencil and paper) and digital media (Procreate app and iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.) So grab a pencil and paper, or whatever drawing media you're comfortable with, and jump into class! 

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Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Drawing Shapes
  • Breaking Things Down into Shapes
  • Seeing Angles
  • Drawing the Negative Space
  • Drawing Upside Down
  • Measuring Techniques
  • Drawing Forms
  • Breaking Things Down into Forms
  • Value Scale
  • Shading Forms
  • Drawing Rhythmically
  • Experimenting with Materials
  • Class Project
  • Drawing from Photos
  • Drawing from Life
  • Copying the Masters
  • Quick Sketches
  • Drawing from Your Imagination
  • Closing Thoughts

Taught by

Gabrielle Brickey

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