Aaron's Design Class Courses

Design Fundamentals - Elements and Principles of Art and Drawing

Unlock the fundamental elements and principles of design through practical drawing techniques, perspective, value studies, and portraiture skills for artistic mastery.

• YouTube
• 7 hours 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Basic Comic Coloring Method - Part 1

A beginner-friendly Photoshop workflow for flexible comic coloring, covering flats, color selection, and inverse selections.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Intro to Photoshop for Beginners - The Basics

Learn Photoshop's interface, layers, brushes, selections, and color tools for basic digital drawing and painting.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Basic Comic Coloring Process

Learn a color flats workflow for comic line art in Adobe Photoshop, including layer management, edge control, selections, and shadows.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Logo Design for Beginners

Learn how logos use form, color, type, and symbols to communicate specific messages to target audiences.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linear Perspective Video Textbook

Learn linear perspective fundamentals through one- and two-point methods, grids, geometric construction, photo reference, thumbnail sketches, and city-building workflows.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Environment Fundamentals

Learn basic environment design through camera, values, composition, atmosphere, foreshortening, and painting techniques.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Line to Detail

Use contour lines and implied hatching to suggest value, texture, and surfaces from smooth to rough tree bark.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Basic Understanding of Line

An introduction to contour, expressive, implied, and cross-hatched lines for building form and visual texture in 2-D design.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Form Building Level 1 - The "Death Touch" of Art

Master the art of drawing by breaking complex subjects into basic forms, improving proportions, and unleashing creativity. Learn to effectively translate mental images onto paper through form relationship studies.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Value Drawing: Shading Techniques and Textures

Learn hatching and cross-hatching techniques to create diverse textures and enhance your value drawing skills through an extensive demonstration of various applications.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video