Course Summary

Basic Drawing

If you want to learn to draw the easy way, you can purchase the class here!

Introduction

Welcome!

The commitment

Module 1 – Style and technique

My secret formula

Worksheets

How to hold a pencil

0:45

Excercise: Pebbles

2:53

Excercise: Connect the dots

2:10

Excercise: Spiral

5:49

Excercise: Overlapping ribbons

2:01

Interlude: Playing with color.

5:25

Module 2 - Heads

Introduction – Start with the "who".

Worksheets

Warm-up: Smiley faces

Basic head recipe

2:28

Emotions

3:21

Hair

Tilting head & characters

Homework

"Heads" webinar

Portraits from photos

Module 3 – Figures

Introduction

Stick people

A few very easy figures

6:40

My favourite quick figure

4:18

Figure walking

Make it come alive

Proportions

More movement!

Figures dancing (plus watercolor)

People in profile

Module 4 – Tell your story

Show your work!

Assignment: Your gifts

Assignment: Draw yourself

Assignment: Show what you love

Ideas for layout & composition

People in a scene

Module 5 - Real world illustration!

In this module I'm going to show you how I go about making my illustrations - technically and conceptually.

Digitizing a drawing with a scanning app

Cleaning up a sketch in Photoshop

Emma... on iPad and paper

Drawings on social media