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52 Week Pencil Drawing Course For Beginners

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  • 1,006 Students
  • Updated 4/2024
4.6
(133 Ratings)
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Course Information

Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
6 Hour(s) 53 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
China Jordan
Rating
4.6
(133 Ratings)

Course Overview

52 Week Pencil Drawing Course For Beginners

Learn how to draw with this 52 week programme, building your fundamental skills and helping you become a better drawer.

In this course, you'll have access to 52 weeks of lessons to help improve your fundamental drawing skills and help you become the artist you've always wanted to be. Join an immersive experience crafted to refine your foundational skills and cultivate the artist within.


You'll start this course with a self-portrait to gage your ability, and as the weeks go on, you'll slowly improve your control with the pencil, your ability to see light and dark and at the end of the year, you'll try a self-portrait again and see an incredible improvement. Feel free to do this in your as whole lessons or 10 minutes a day!


In this class you will learn:


* Pencils - Uncover the significance of different pencils and master their utilization.

* Shading - Acquire the skills to render your drawings realistically, achieving a seamless and consistent appearance.

* Measuring - Hone your ability to gauge dimensions using visual estimation, comparison lines, and precise proportions.

* Perspective - Gain insights into creating drawings that exude naturalism and possess impeccable depth.

* Still Life - Explore the art of crafting drawings from seemingly mundane inanimate objects into interesting artworks.

* Portraits - How to improve your portrait skills from using planes, to drawing the shadows.


Feel free to pause the instructional videos at any point to immerse yourself in hands-on practice, or download the content to your studio from paper for a more tactile experience.


As we reach the culmination of this immersive drawing course, take a moment to reflect on the substantial progress achieved—from that initial self-portrait to the intricacies of shading, measurement precision, and the finesse required for portraits.


Throughout this journey, you've navigated the nuances of pencil work and grasped the art of rendering depth and realism. Your dedication to refining your skills has not only elevated your technical proficiency but also unveiled a profound understanding of artistic expression.

Course Content

  • 13 section(s)
  • 58 lecture(s)
  • Section 1 Introduction
  • Section 2 Section 2 - Pencils & Shading
  • Section 3 Perspective
  • Section 4 Section 3 - Still Life
  • Section 5 Section 4 - Fruit
  • Section 6 Section 5 - Light Shading
  • Section 7 Section 6 - Dark Shading
  • Section 8 Section 7 - Flowers
  • Section 9 Section 8 - Charles Bargue
  • Section 10 Section 9 - Planes In Drawing
  • Section 11 Section 10 - Freehand Drawing
  • Section 12 Section 11 - Portrait
  • Section 13 Section 12 - Self Portrait

What You’ll Learn

  • How To Shade, How To Draw Realistically, How To Measure Proportions, How To Draw A Self Portrait

Skills covered in this course


Reviews

  • J
    Jean Snyder
    5.0

    Easy to follow and understand

  • A
    Amy Holley
    5.0

    so good!

  • C
    Carol JANE MURRAY
    4.0

    I have enjoyed covering different aspects of drawing , it is very interesting.

  • C
    Clare Timbrell
    5.0

    excellent course with lots of basics covered and explained really well. the resources are very helpful and back up the videos. really enjoying it and seeing a lot of good progress.

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