Improve Your Drawing and Painting Skills

Drawing and painting are important creative skills, even in the digital age. This learning path begins with drawing fundamentals, then explores light, perspective, different drawing styles, and several aspects of painting.

Analyze the impact of line, tone, negative space, and scale.
Practice sketching and constructing perspective.
Explore painting foundations and various styles.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Drawing Foundations: Fundamentals
-Breaks down the fundamentals of drawing, from line, tone, value, and light to negative space, perspective, and composition.

Course 2: Figure Drawing: The Portrait
-Learn about the bone structure and proportion of the human head, then add expression to create accurate portraits.

Course 3: Drawing Foundations: Light and Shadow
-Learn how to see and replicate light and shadow in your drawings.

Course 4: Drawing 2-Point Perspective
-Explore the basics of two-point perspective drawing, including asymmetrical and symmetrical perspectives, and learn to draw interior and exterior scenes more accurately.

Course 5: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching
-Learn how to draw from life—in an urban setting. Will Kemp shows how to draw buildings, street scenes, cafés, and people, as well as the bustling movement of cities and towns.

Course 6: Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape
-Learn how to quickly capture the atmosphere and mood of a landscape like an artist, and take the next step from sketching at home to sketching outside.

Course 7: 21-Day Drawing Challenge
-Take 21-day journey to improve your drawing skills and incorporate drawing into your life as a daily practice.

Course 8: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
-Learn to paint with acrylics. Get an introduction to the materials and techniques used in acrylic painting with three follow-along painting projects.

Course 9: Painting Foundations: Light and the Landscape
-Learn key concepts and techniques for tackling light and landscapes in acrylic paintings by completing a large, impressionistic studio painting of a skyline in Venice, Italy.

Course 10: Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape
-Recreate the color palettes of nature and paint more evocative landscapes with this painting class from artist and art instructor Will Kemp.

Taught by

Will Kemp, Amy Wynne Visual Artist, Will Kemp, Amy Wynne Visual Artist, Will Kemp, Will Kemp, Von Glitschka, Kevin Stohlmeyer, Von Glitschka and Von Glitschka