Let's practice creating gradations with texture. This warmup helps you control value and describe form using only your line work.

It's time for your assignment. Use the provided descriptions to create a variety of thumbnail sketches, exploring different silhouettes and ideas.

Additional examples of how distance and lens choice affect depth and composition in photos.

Some tips for building a concept art portfolio that gets you noticed.

Let's turn a rough thumbnail into a detailed sketch.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I take a character description and show you my complete thumbnailing process from a blank canvas.

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.

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

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

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

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

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