Library – Drawing and Painting Lessons
Below you’ll find all the videos in the Proko Library listed by category. Some videos are in multiple categories. If you’re new to drawing I recommend starting with the Drawing Basics section. After that, feel free to jump around and pick your own adventure!
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Drawing Basics (start here)
- Drawing Supplies I Use in My Videos
- Drawing Supplies I Use for Longer Drawings
- How to Hold and Control Your Pencil
- The Basic Elements – Shape, Value, Color, Edge
- Shading Light and Form – Basics
- How to Shade a Drawing
- How to Draw Gesture
- Structure Basics – Making Things Look 3D
- Drawing Measuring Techniques
- The Illusion of Depth – Contrast, Aerial Perspective and Form
- The Illusion of Depth – Perspective, Details and Overlapping Forms
- The Illusion of Depth – Edge, Line, Cast Shadow and Paint Thickness
- Top 5 Shading Mistakes
- Top 5 Drawing Mistakes
Figure Drawing
The Premium Figure Drawing Fundamentals Course has extended versions of these lessons and many example drawings.
- How to Draw Gesture
- How to Draw Gesture – Step by Step
- Quicksketch Examples – 2 Minute Poses
- Figure Drawing Critiques 1 – Gesture
- How to Simplify the Motion of the Torso – The Bean
- Bean Examples – Tilt, Lean, Twist and Foreshortening
- Structure Basics – Making Things Look 3D
- Landmarks of the Human Body
- Landmarks Example – Step by Step
- How to Draw Structure in the Body – Robo Bean
- Robo Bean Examples – Step by Step
- Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu
- Mannequinization – Structure of the Human Body
- Mannequinization – Drawing Example 1
- Mannequinization – Drawing Example 2
- Mannequinization – Drawing Example 3
- Figure Drawing Critiques 2 – Structure Basics
- Figure Drawing Critiques 3 – The Bean
- Figure Drawing Critiques 4 – Landmarks
- Figure Drawing Critiques 5 – Robo Bean
- Figure Drawing Critiques 6 – Mannequinization
- How to Draw Balanced Poses
- * How to Draw Exaggerated Poses
- Human Figure Proportions – Average Figures – Dr. Paul Richer
- Human Figure Proportions – Cranial Units – Robert Beverly Hale
- * Human Figure Proportions – Idealistic Figures – Andrew Loomis
- Drawing Measuring Techniques
- * How to Practice and Check Your Measuring
- * Drawing Yoni – Linear Layin – Basic Shapes
- * How to Shade a Drawing – The Process
- How to Shade a Drawing
- Figure Drawing Timelapse – Yoni
- * Drawing Yoni – Figure Drawing Demo
- Figure Drawing Critiques 7 – Shading