You’ve come a long way with your drawings. Let’s jump into the final critique and improve the balance between lost and found edges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I hope you take what I’ve shown you and run with it to push your own style further. Repetition is the key to making art feel fun and easy.

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

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

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

In this lesson, we’ll learn about the importance of line weight when creating engaging and interesting art.

Master line quality with 6 key habits: avoid common mistakes, find a comfortable speed, follow-through, ghosting, rotate the paper, and use simple strokes.

Before we start, let's go over tools. I've included an extensive materials shopping list of paper, pencils, markers, erasers, and sharpeners.

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