Welcome to Drawing for Beginners
  • IMPORTANT ! Watch this BEFORE you enroll, please.
  • Art as Problem Solving
  • How should I hold my Pencil ?
  • Drawing Has been Hard for You Because....
  • What you will need for this course.
  • Getting the Most out of this Course
  • Here are the Worksheets
  • For my Left Handed Students (3/04/18)
The Power of Lines
  • The Only 4 Things you NEED for this Course
  • Introduction to lines
  • Rough lines
  • The Straight Line
  • Straight line Practice
  • Curved lines
  • C Curves
  • S Curves
  • Lines as Texture
  • Line Accuracy
  • Line Weight
  • IF you are having trouble making Lines (Facebook Group Lesson)
Making Simple 2D Hard Shapes
  • Intro to creating your first shapes
  • The Rectangle
  • The Square
  • The Triangle
  • The Ellipse
  • The Circle
  • The Center Line
Making Simple 2D Soft Organic Shapes
  • Intro to Organic Shapes
  • Organic Triangle
  • Organic Square
  • Organic Rectangle
  • Organic Oval
  • Peanut
An Introduction to Form
  • Introduction to Form
  • From 2D to 3D
  • Drawing Through
  • The Box
  • The Cylinder
  • The Pyramid
  • The Cone
  • The Wedge
  • The Sphere
  • Contouring lines
Organic 3D Forms
  • Intro to Organic Form
  • Organic Cylinder
  • Organic Peanut
  • Organic Cone
  • Organic Box
Perspective Crash Course
  • Why Perspective
  • The Horizon Line
  • The Vanishing Point
  • One Point Perspective
  • Two Point Perspective
Putting Shapes Together
  • Intro to Merging
  • How to Merge Hard Shapes
  • 2 Shapes
  • 3 Shapes
  • Merging Organic Shapes
  • 2 Shapes
  • 3 Shapes
Understanding light and Shadow
  • Light Source
  • Intro to Light and Shadow
  • Light Fall Off
  • Diffused Light
  • Ambient Occlusion
NEW DRAW WITH ME : Hatching and Shading
  • Intro to Hatching and Cross Hatching
  • Hatching exercise 1
  • Hatching exercise 2
  • Hatching Assignment
  • Hatching to Gradient exercise
  • Shading a Sphere
  • Shading Boxes
  • Shading an Organic Form
  • Shading a Cylinder
Texturing Objects
  • Intro to Texture
  • What is Texture
  • How to Draw Scales
  • How to Draw Random Shapes for textures.
  • How to Draw Fur
How to "Shade" and "Render"
  • Value Chart
  • High, Low and Middle Key Value
  • Simple Value Chart
  • Blending and Smoothing
Observation or How to See Like an artist.
  • Intro to Observation and Art
  • Observing Lines
  • Observing Shapes
  • Negative Space