Blobs build intuition, grids train proportion—this video shows how both sharpen your drawing skills.

Let's go over common shading mistakes - wrong terminator and cast shadow shapes, spotty or linear halftone transitions, and shadows that are too light.

Michael demonstrates a slower, shape-based approach to figure drawing that emphasizes form, overlap, and rhythm through part-to-part construction.

A step-by-step look at foreshortening arrows using boxes, vectors, and scaffolding to understand 3D space and draw with more confidence.

In this video, I’ll give you an in depth look at what you’ll learn in my Drawing Basics course.

The first project of the Drawing Basics course is to challenge yourself to simplify the shapes, edges, and values of a pear or portrait from observation.

In this project, we'll start learning how to sketch using simple loose lines.

Here’s a project to help you avoid chicken scratch. We’re going to simplify our drawings to C curves, S curves, and straight lines.

This is our first stop on the path to drawing from imagination.

Drawing is a visual language that can be learned just like any other language, and anyone can pick it up with the right guidance and practice.

Master the Tapered Stroke for confident line quality in your sketches! Learn how to construct complex shapes & add energy to your loose sketches.

Let's explore the nine basic positions from which objects can be viewed, including ortho view and angles to the left, right, above, and below.

There is an endless number of ways to use lines as an artist, so let's jump in and take a look at the basics.

A beginner's guide to sketchbooks and paper! Learn about paper types, texture, weight, archivability, and common pitfalls.

Marshall explores the Ortho to Invented Form project submissions, guiding you on how to transform 2D orthographic projections into inventive 3D forms.

Here is my step-by-step demo on how to properly execute the first assignment for level 1 students.

All the ways I sharpen pencils. Wooded and woodless graphite pencils, 2.0 and 5.6mm mechanical pencils, charcoal pencils, and eraser pencils!

For this project, we're going to design our line quality to be more interesting by practicing organizing the line weight.

For this project, you’ll continue to practice The Shape Method.