Thanks for putting together such a thorough learning program. One will never know it all but one can always attempt to learn more. I am always telling my students to continue practicing, searching, learning and growing. I am a medical illustrator, classical fine artist and instructor. Your drawing basics has been a wonderful experience for me. I am enjoying what I am learning, and I am already looking forward to more online courses. I feel I have found what I was looking for. He goes step by step, explaining and showing the how to of everything and gives plenty of practice materials to develop the skills. David is an outstanding artist and teacher. And it is such a good course, that I decided that I did not want to miss anything from the basics skills that are fundamental to really becoming a masterful artist. I have taken other art classes and have some experience, so I initially started with the Portrait Drawing. We assume no prior knowledge or experience in drawing, and the course proceeds sequentially, each lesson building upon what was presented previously.Įxcellent course! I love the sequential structure and attention to details and how well David explains and demonstrates what he is teaching. It’s what we call a “skills course” because it focuses on fostering drawing ability through a series of exercises. The emphasis is not on producing a finished “work of art” by the end of the course, but rather on practice and repetition to develop a fundamental skill set. Too frequently, beginning students encounter the difficulty of learning to draw while attempting something inappropriately advanced and give up, deciding – prematurely – that they simply “can’t draw”, when in fact they just haven’t been shown how to develop their skills from the ground up.ĭrawing Basics is our attempt to address this problem.

Asking someone to draw a portrait, or a figure, or a complex still life before they’ve learned to hold a pencil, draw a line, build a simple shape, or create a careful progression of values is bound to cause frustration for everyone.

But these fundamental skills are often overlooked in introductory drawing courses and instructional DVDs, and even in art colleges, where the true “basics” are ignored – bypassed in favor of more advanced material.īut this isn’t in the best interest of students – particularly beginners. The ability to make beautiful drawings is the product of a well-developed skill set – a family of related abilities of the hand, the eye, and the mind, that together give an artist the tools required to draw anything. A Drawing Course that Starts at the Very Beginning.

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