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Class Introduction
If you're a beginner, you have nothing to worry about. This is the place for you. I used to not be able to draw either. And I have done hundreds of bad drawings. And you know what happened to me? Nothing. I'm here. I had a lot of fun drawing on. I got a lot of practice because art and drawing is just like any other exercise. In order to build muscle, you have to do it over and over again and practice. And the good thing is, you're not running laps, your drawing, and it's really fun. So this class is full of techniques to practice and take home. We're going to start out with a good, solid foundation of art school basics, and then we're going to move on to a technique that I really like to dio. I use it all the time as a professional illustrator, but it's also really great for beginners. We're gonna take your mobile device so it could be a tablet. It could be a cell phone if you want to draw really small, which I often dio, and we're gonna use the glass on the top of the surface as a lig...
ht box so you can get any image in there you want. And then we're gonna put a piece of tracing paper on the top of it and trace that and transfer that drawing to a nice piece of drawing paper. So you're using all the hands on techniques where you get your hands dirty. Really? Craft something, a lot of texture to it, But you're also using the best of the new technology. Then, after we transfer that, we're gonna create a nice finish piece of art that you could take home. You can say, Hey, I didn't I didn't These are today. As we go through all these drawing techniques, I want you to, like, take a whole bunch of notes in the margins and scribble doodle anything on your drawings. Because when you take these home, that's when you're going to really learn after the class is over, when you're practicing on your own and maybe you're drawing your own subject matter or you using a technique that you already do and you're just adding in my new information, you're gonna be like, Ah, that's the ah ha moment. Now I really feel like I'm I have a handle on this new material
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Ratings and Reviews
Rhonda Bender
This class is about two hours long. Overall it is a friendly and accessible approach to introducing some basic drawing techniques and tools that is appropriate for those who are nervous about or just novice to drawing. It lets the student jump in by tracing a basic outline which is then detailed. Towards the end the instructor demonstrates a more advanced type of tracing using a tablet as a lightpad, and there is also helpful information on how to trace one's own work to transfer it to better paper or slightly alter the drawing to be larger/wider/etc. The middle portion has overview information on types of lines and methods of shading. These aren't super thorough examinations of those topics, but should be ample to complete the exercises and drawings included and recommended in the class. Likewise, the overview of drawing tools and papers is an overview, but strikes a good balance between overwhelming with too much information, and giving students enough info to know what tools they need for basic drawing and how to use them. There is a brief overview of how to use the sight size method to draw freehand more accurately. This is a subject that could easily be an entire class topic on its own. Some will find this enough info to get going, others might prefer expanded information and more details on this. The more complex subject of ellipses in perspective is touched on only briefly. (Perspective is also a complex subject that needs a whole class of its own, so this is understandable.) In contrast to some other reviewers, I did not have a lot of issues with the filming and camera angles. A lot of time was spent on the angle of looking at the drawing in action. However, it is clear that material was edited out from the live version. The edited version doesn't follow the drawing of every exercise through to its conclusion, and sometimes segments end or start abruptly.
Kelsy
I like it. it's not very in-depth but it gave me the courage to start drawing, and I had so much fun. Great for beginners.
a Creativelive Student
There was a lot of good information in this course: types of shading; analogue versions of digital tools like guidelines and centring. I had an ah-ha moment when Cleo talked about ellipses. That alone was worth the price of the course. I also loved the part about using a lightbox, as well as tracing and graphite papers as tools - but in a way that doesn't impinge on copyrights.
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