Drawing Basics
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A little pep talk for those of you who recently started your journey. When you were a baby, you learned how to talk by listening and repeating words, and you can learn how to draw the same way. Drawing is a way to communicate with pictures instead of words. I talk about training your mind and your hand with the right exercises and projects and how you can learn faster with the right mindset.
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omeri
2mo
is this fine?
Lynn Hann
2mo
looks pretty good. Like all of us we are all learning.
omeri
2mo
c'ant wait to start the course (:
oguncle
2mo
where should i post my drawings so stan can critique them?
frankrago
3mo
Can these lessons be done digitally?
2mo
Yes, they can!
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F Alda
4mo
Looks like I'm behind the curve with my start date, by quite some time! For the sake of participating anyway, here's my starting point - not sure what it's meant to be, put pencil to paper before I thought anything through. Coffee, finger guns, cat-robot with elephant legs.
eshields
4mo
I was a little nervous taking this study on, but I like how it came out! I need work on perspective for the back half of the avocado, but I’m happy with how this came out. Feedback welcomed.
Quim Turulluentes
5mo
Hi everyone! I am new at drawing, and here are my pencil and markers doodles. Looking forward to learning a lot with this course!
Jo Lefeaux
5mo
Gonna get started on this course now, keen to learn lots and get better with the bits I do know! Here’s some sketches and warmups from the last few nights as a benchmark. Very excited!
aly_w
5mo
took like 1.5 hours... but there we are.
Billy Martin
5mo
Tonight’s hour drawing. I think once I learn proportion and shading I’ll get there lol.
duncanball
5mo
A quick sketch tonight. Looking forward to the first assignment!
Reamon van der Horst
5mo
I like to draw cartoony characters. But I want to learn the fundamentals the right way, that's why I'm joining this course. I also want to have more fun with the proces and not focus too hard on the end result... I already like the way Stan teaches. :-) Looking forward to the first drawing lessons. Here is a sketch I made yesterday evening. :-P
duncanball
5mo
👍
Billy Martin
5mo
Another hour drawing tonight, bought some toned blue paper to try out. Funny how fast the time goes when your focused.
Billy Martin
5mo
Tonight’s drawing, put an hour on this one tonight. Haven’t really drawn since high school art class 30 years ago lol. Looking forward to learning.
Doodle Disaster
5mo
Is there a schedule for when the next videos come out?
Macario Lopez
5mo
I would love to know that too😁
Billy Martin
5mo
Put an hour in tonight, gonna try to get an hour or two a night. Goals
Gabriel Cool
5mo
Getting back into the swing of things, went some time without drawing
robbursey
5mo
I hear ya! I went a while as well, but it feels good to be back and it looks like you feel the same!
loes roos
5mo
I still find it confusion where to post what....here or under the specific lesson video.
Mike6174
5mo
I tend to think: if you are late, post under the last video since it is where you can get most critics and feedback
Brandon
5mo
Spent some time attempting to draw the f22 raptor.
robbursey
4mo
id say the attempt was successful i knew what it was right away!
Monica Vasquez
5mo
My pear and materials. I have pages of lines and doodles which I am finding to be very relaxing.
Micah Glinter
5mo
Nice work! don’t be afraid to put down those shadows, a good exercise that may help is having a darkest, middle, and lightest tone then breaking up the shadows you see on the pear into three sections with those tones.
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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
