Track character heights accurately across any environment.

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

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.

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.

Congratulations on finishing the drapery course. You can now use your knowledge of folds to bring more life to your characters and storytelling.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Learn about shape language, using simple shapes to design and construct, and adding complexity to your simple shapes.

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

In this lesson, I show you 5 line quality warm-ups that you can practice to improve your line control.

Time for another Project! In this one, we’ll be constructing animal portraits using basic shapes.

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