The ART & SCIENCE of Drawing / Basic Skills

What Will I Learn?
Draw any shape.
Observe and analyze any subject.
Draw any form by breaking it down into basic shapes before adding dark lines.

Requirements
This course is for absolute beginners and intermediate level artists seeking to improve their fundamental skills.
No previous drawing experience is necessary!

Description
The Art & Science of Drawing is a remarkable new program that will teach you how to draw one day at a time. The program is simple, each day you’ll watch one video lesson that will introduce an essential drawing skill, and then do the recommended practice. The Art & Science of Drawing is overflowing with powerful insights into the drawing process and offers some of the clearest, most accessible drawing instruction available. Many of the tools and techniques you’ll learn here are rarely seen outside of private art academies.

BASIC SKILLS is designed for the absolute beginner, but is recommended for anyone wanting to improve their drawing skills. In this first week you’ll learn:
How to hold the pencil
How to draw any shape
How to analyze any subject
How to use light lines and basic shapes to lay an accurate foundation for finished drawings
How to bring your drawings to life with detail and texture

BASIC SKILLS is the first entry in a series designed to take students from the absolute basics to advanced techniques like volumetric drawing and shading. If you’re a beginner, we recommend going through the entire series in the following order:
Basic Skills
Dynamic Mark Making
Form & Space
Measuring & Proportion
Contours
Shading Fundamentals
Shading: Beyond the Basics

If you’ve got some drawing experience, feel free to mix and match The Art & Science of Drawing courses to suit your personal needs as an artist!

Who is the target audience?
Anyone wanting to learn to draw. Recommended for adults and determined teens.
Painters! The best way to improve your painting is by learning to draw.
Anyone interested in seriously pursuing art. Although this course in particular is designed for absolute beginners, THE ART & SCIENCE OF DRAWING series is designed to teach the fundamentals of master drawing.