Starting at the top, draw a quick, light line from the left dot to the right. Taking the above exercise a step up, this time draw four dots on your paper so they form a square. I hope you will enjoy this course as much as I did during its creation.See the types of pencils, charcoal, and paper I use on the Drawing and Sketching Resources Page. If you make all the exercises with me, I’m sure you will make a difference. You can compare your sketches made at the beginning and at the end of the course. We will drawĪ chair by drawing straight lines using the rules of perspectiveĪ profile portrait to practice proportionsĪ dancing human figure for an introduction to gesture drawingĪt the end of the course you can check if your drawing skills have improved. We will make all sorts of sketches on real life subjects based on reference photos. In the third section we’ll put the drawing skills you’ve learned into practice.

With this knowledge you’ll be able to draw subjects convincingly in the 3D space. I will also explain an important drawing principle called foreshortening. I will give you an introduction to perspective drawing discussing the most frequently used 2-point and 3-point perspective.

The goal of these lessons is to gain confidence at drawing these simple elements that we will use to build more complex objects. We will also develop your hand coordination by connecting dots with straight and curved lines. Simple 3D objects like cubes and cylinders Simple 2D shapes like triangles, rectangles, and squares We will develop your basic drawing skills making a lot of fundamental drawing exercises. In the second section we will go through the basic building blocks of drawing.

How to see the world with the eyes of the artist How to hold the pencil to get a better drawing experience The first section is kind of an introduction to drawing. We’ll be drawing with simple traditional graphite pencil on ordinary paper. This course requires no previous drawing knowledge or special drawing equipment. Or if you are not a beginner, but you are having difficulties with your drawings, you are just probably missing some of the basic puzzles which can be easily fixed in these lessons. If you are an absolute beginner at drawing, this session can be a perfect choice for your very first drawing course. This course is about Basic Drawing Skills and 3D Sketching. This is the first episode of my How to Draw Series.

Sketch poses