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How to Draw

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This course develops foundational and advanced drawing skills through studies of line, shape, composition, proportion, perspective, value, texture, color, and the human figure, with multiple complex drawing projects.

Syllabus

  • An Introduction to Drawing
  • Drawing Materials for Line
  • Drawing Fundamentals & First Exercises
  • Line & Shape: Line & Aggregate Shape
  • Line & Shape: Volume & Figure-Ground
  • Line & Shape: Positive & Negative Shape
  • Composition: The Format & Its Armature
  • Composition: How Artists Compose
  • Line & Shape: Line Attributes & Gesture
  • Composition: Shape & Advanced Strategies
  • Proportion: Alberti's Velo
  • Proportion: Accurate Proportion & Measure
  • Creating Volume & Illusionistic Space
  • Six Complex Drawing Projects
  • Linear Perspective: Introduction
  • Linear Perspective: The Quad
  • Linear Perspective: The Gridded Room
  • Linear Perspective: Ellipses & Pattern
  • Linear Perspective: Advanced Topics
  • Value: How Artists Use Value
  • Value: Drawing Materials for Value
  • Value: Black & White & a Value Scale
  • Value: Eight Complex Drawing Projects
  • Value: Side Light & Cast Shadow
  • Value: Oblique Light & Cast Shadow
  • Texture: Mark Making & Optical Value
  • Texture: How Artists Use Texture
  • Color: Color Theory & Color & Light
  • Color: How Artists Use Color
  • Color: Color Drawing Projects
  • The Figure: A Canon of Proportions
  • The Figure: The Head, Hands & Feet
  • The Figure: Artistic Anatomy
  • The Figure: Drawing Projects
  • Advanced Concepts: Pictorial Space
  • Advanced Drawing Projects

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