I’m reviewing your final character renders to show how small tweaks to lighting and anatomy can make your designs stand out.

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.

You can create a stronger focal point by merging shadow shapes into the background to lose specific edges.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I’m basing this drawing on a reference but adding my own design elements. We’ll balance realistic structure with graphic shapes for a stylized look.

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

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

In our very first critique of the course, I take a look through your simplified pear submissions and give feedback on some of the most common mistakes.

I’m drawing a hawk to show that your style works in any medium. We’ll simplify shapes and use selective details to guide the eye.

This warmup is a fun way to help you practice drawing ellipses.

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

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

A beginner's guide to pencils and erasers! A breakdown of the many different pencil and eraser options out there.