For beginners, it can be overwhelming to go to the art

store and not be sure what to buy. What is so special

about this course is you will get to know about

important drawing secrets and tips that will help your

skill improve by leaps and bounds — tips that others

use every time they draw and paint! You will learn all

these secrets at the beginning. Your practice throughout

the whole course is very important so you can see yourdrawing skills improve dramatically.

An important foundational concept in drawing is

becoming familiar with the basic shapes that are found

all through nature. Detail explanation about the

direction of the light source and how light informs allshapes.

Have you ever started a composition then found you

have run out of room on the paper sheet or your subject

small enough or too small for the paper? Discover how

to get these basic outline and scale of your image

placed correctly on the page when starting a drawing.

You will learn the philosophy of the basic but often-

missed concept of “start big then go small” with theblock-in.

In this lesson, you will learn how to correctly evaluate

values (the range of light to dark tones) in your subjects

and how to render them accurately on the page to make

your drawings three-dimensional. Even if you have

drawing experience, there are very good chances that

you will learn something new and extremely valuable

in this lesson. You will also learn how to create ownvalue scale and how to use it when drawing.

This lesson will enable you to recognize and quickly

get down on paper the dynamic core movement of a

figure in short, timed drawings. This will teach you

which materials and techniques will prevent you fromgetting into detail too soon.

In Relative proportions, you will learn some critical

techniques of measuring accurate proportions and sizes

of individual objects of your subject and drawing themcorrectly.

One of the most interesting, compelling, and popular

areas of art is the human face. Did you know that all

human faces follow certain basic proportions? But

drawing lessons on human face will only show youhow to draw a face in a frontal position.

This lesson will teach you the classic proportions of the

human body. There are some scientific and

quantifiable methods for capturing proper human

proportions for people at their different ages. You will

learn something very proportional on how to draw thefigure in different stances.

Gridding is an excellent teaching aid because it helps

students start to see objects as the abstract shapes they

are instead of a pre-conceived idea of what they think

an objects look like. Learning Grid helps them to drawwhat they see, not what do they know.

This lesson will give you a chance to incorporate the

instruction on gridding that you were taught in Lesson

9 to grid a more complex subject human face. Learning

this exercise will prepare you to combine all of the

elements of the human face together with greater

precision. This is a technique that the great artist

Raphael used to transfer his model’s image to a largersurface area.

Perspective does not just apply to architecture — it

reveals itself in everything we see at all times. Most

teachers teach perspective at the beginning of their

instruction, but here you will learn it towards the end of

course because there is a necessary foundation in

drawing you must build before you can proficientlyincorporate perspective.

Elements of Composition is a resourceful recap for the

entire series, and is sometimes left out from drawing

courses.

By the end of Lesson 12, you will have all the drawing

instruction you need to finish a drawing of anything

you choose!

And there's lot more...!