How to Draw Ep.1 - BASIC DRAWING SKILLS & Sketching Course

About How to Draw Ep.1 - BASIC DRAWING SKILLS & Sketching Course

This is the

1st episode

of my

How to Draw 101 series

. This course is about

Basic Drawing Skills and 3D Sketching

. If you are an

absolute beginner at drawing

, this session can be a

perfect choice for your very first drawing course

. Or if you are not a beginner, but you are having difficulties with your drawings, you are just probably missing some of the basic puzzles which can be easily fixed in these lessons.

This course requires no previous drawing knowledge or special drawing equipment.

We'll be drawing with simple traditional graphite pencil on ordinary paper. The

first section

is kind of an introduction to drawing.I will show you

the drawing tools you need

optional tools for the future

how to hold the pencil to get a better drawing experience

how to

see the world with the eyes of the artist

In the

second section

we will go through the basic building blocks of drawing. We will

develop your basic drawing skills

making a lot of fundamental

drawing exercises

. You will learn how to draw

straight lines

parallel lines

simple 2D shapes like triangles, rectangles, and squares

curves

circles, ovoid shapes, and ellipses

simple 3D objects like cubes and cylinders We will also develop your hand coordination by connecting dots with straight and curved lines. The goal of these lessons is to gain confidence at drawing these simple elements that we will use to build more complex objects. I will give you an introduction to

perspective drawing

discussing the most frequently used

2-point and 3-point perspective

. I will also explain an important drawing principle called

foreshortening

. With this knowledge you'll be able to draw subjects convincingly in the 3D space. In the

third section

we'll put the drawing skills you've learned into practice. We will make all sorts of

sketches on real life subjects

based on reference photos. We will draw

a chess pawn built from simple 2D shapes

a chair by drawing straight lines using the rules of perspective

a fish using a bunch of S-curves

a profile portrait to practice proportions

a chess pawn with

simple shading

a pair of glasses

a dancing human figure for an introduction to gesture drawing

and an astronaut just for fun At the end of the course, you can check if

your drawing skills have improved

. You can compare your sketches made at the beginning and at the end of the course. If you make all the exercises with me, I'm sure you will make a difference. I hope you will enjoy this course as much as I did during its creation. See you in my Basic Drawing Skills & Sketching Exercises course!