This course is dedicated to the fundamental drawing skill - consistent shading. It is what makes your drawings and paintings look convincing, finished, and awesome.
This course will teach you:
- Classical methods of drawing
- Cross-hatching
- Skecthing
- Shading
- Representing various textures
- Drawing folds
- Drawing a human head
- Leading complex drawings from compositional sketches to final touches
Detailed Curriculum
- Day 1: Pencil drawing techniques. Drawing basic geometric shapes. Creating outlines.
- Day 2: Pencil drawing techniques. Drawing basic geometric shapes. Shading.
- Day 3: Learning to see simple shapes in more complex ones. Representing texture.
- Day 4: Learning to see simple shapes in more complex ones. Representing texture.
- Day 5: Drawing a complex monochromatic geometric shape: a relief with a plaster leaf.
- Day 6: Drawing a complex monochromatic geometric relief.
- Day 7: Drawing a landscape, representing various textures of nature.
- Day 8: Drawing a landscape, representing various textures of nature.
- Day 9: Drawing folds. Grey paper, white and black charcoal. Starting the drawing.
- Day 10: Sketching folds. Grey paper, white and black charcoal. Finishing the drawing.
- Day 11: Lecture on head anatomy, proportions, sketching facial features. Sketching a plane head. Making a thumbnail of the future head drawing with value analysis.
- Day 12: Starting the final project - drawing of a plaster head. Proportions, composition, structure. Finalizing the outlines.
- Day 13: Final project - drawing of a plaster head. Rendering the details.
- Day 14: Final project - drawing of a plaster head. Rendering the details, finishing the drawing.
