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. I provide you two photo options over in the downloads tab. Being able to simplify is a very useful skill to be able to communicate clearly in your drawings.

Challenge yourself to draw every day for 2 weeks! See if you can get into the routine of drawing daily.

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.

It’s time to inherit some power from the masters! In this project, we’re continuing to improve your line quality by choosing a master drawing that excites you and studying the artist's use of lines.

I enjoyed the habit of drawing everyday during the 12 Days of Proko. The timer tool is great and there are lots of professional photos to work from. I took one day off from it and got right back on it. Now the habit is a fixture in my daily routine. I've been posting the images in the two week challenge thread in the Drawing Fundamentals Course, but since a.) this will be a longer habit than two weeks and b.) not everyone on Proko is enrolled in that course, I'm starting a thread here. Anyone inclined, feel free to join in. Use the timer and whatever photos you have packs for, or are freely available. Here are a few two minute sketches from me--mostly from the Viking Volume 2 Pack. 22nd Day of Proko and counting.

Proko Perspective Challenge, judged by the Proko Team. Deadline - July 5th at 11:59 pm (PDT)

Alright level two-ers...Since you've already got some experience with sketching, I want to give you a bit more of a challenge to start practicing sketching from Imagination!

Now that you know about the tapered stroke and simple CSI lines, it's time to learn how to sketch! Here's your next project.

Now that you’ve all had some time to try the first project on your own, you can watch how I do it and figure out what areas you are exceeding and struggling with. Here is my step-by-step demo on how to properly execute the first project for level 1 students.

Alright guys, this is going to be a fun one! In this project, we’ll be constructing animal portraits using basic shapes.

June 2021 Proko Challenge with judge Karla Ortiz is here! This thread is for posting your FINAL SUBMISSIONS ONLY. Remember to upvote your favorites from other participants. We will have a community choice award :) To post your works in progress, and get the challenge details, rules, and prizes go to: https://proko.com/lesson/june-proko-challenge-my-life-movie-poster-with-karla-ortiz/notes *EDIT: This challenge is closed! Congrats to all the winners! See reaction video and winners here - This Movie Poster Art is INSANE - Karla Ortiz Proko Challenge!

New gesture drawing challenge! Use the timer tool and free reference poses to set up timed sessions. If submit all your drawings you could win a prize!

February 2022 Proko Challenge with judge Josh Sunga is here! This thread is for posting your FINAL SUBMISSIONS ONLY. Remember to upvote your favorites from other participants. We will have a community choice award :) To post your works in progress, and get the challenge details, rules, and prizes go to:  https://www.proko.com/lesson/february-proko-challenge-odd-bots-with-josh-sunga/notes *EDIT: This challenge is closed! Congrats to all the winners! See reaction video and winners here - Odd Bots Proko Challenge Results

Before we get into learning about lines, I want to give you an exercise to help you warm up your hands and draw nice fluid lines. This warmup is a fun way to help you practice drawing ellipses.

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

In this project, we'll practice measuring accurate proportions with a portrait. Using our measuring toolkit we'll break down the face into basic shapes, starting with the biggest shapes and working towards smaller details.

January 2022 Proko Challenge with judge @Tiffanie Mang is here! This thread is for posting your FINAL SUBMISSIONS ONLY. Remember to upvote your favorites from other participants. We will have a community choice award :) To post your works in progress, and get the challenge details, rules, and prizes go to:  https://www.proko.com/lesson/january-proko-challenge-landscape-thumbnails-with-tiffanie-mang/ *EDIT: This challenge is closed! Congrats to all the winners! See reaction video and winners here - January Proko Challenge Results

Ok, before we can start, you'll need to get some tools. I’ll go into much more detail about these in the next few videos, but right now I’m gonna give you a quick shopping list, which you can also find in the lesson notes. All of these are optional except a pencil with an eraser on it, and some paper... You can get whatever looks fun to you, or all of it if you’re feeling spicy!

Now that you’ve all had some time to try the first project on your own, you can watch how I do it and figure out what areas you are exceeding and struggling with. Here is my step-by-step demo on how to properly execute the first project for level 2 students.

In this project, we’ll continue working on improving our shape design by applying the concepts we learned from the last lesson. You’ll be working on identifying the gesture of your subject and then designing dynamic and interesting shapes that support that gesture.