Who is this class for? If you are a beginner and want to learn a simple way to sketch but you keep getting wonky shapes, this class is for you! I guess you have tried drawing what you see directly next to your reference, but it just looks a bit off, so you decided to trace your reference image. That’s fine for an absolute beginner to get started, but you can’t sell your artwork done that way for copyright reasons and more importantly, you won’t really learn how to draw independently. If that’s you, then this class will be helpful.

How does this class work? I will show you how to break everything down into basic shapes. Most classes out there only focus on what I call secondary shapes, but skip on the importance of establishing an overall shape first. In this class, I will first help you see the general shape any object belongs to, and then we will break it down into smaller secondary shapes, while taking notes where each secondary shape is located relative to the overall shape, then we will proceed to drawing on the side while looking at our draft, and finally we will clean up the drawing.

I will walk you through 9 different examples, each representing a category of commonly seen objects: some are organic like fruit, flower, animal, tree or human; some are non organic objects like household items, buildings, vehicles or electronic appliances. These exercises will get you used to finding all those hidden shapes.

What can I learn by taking this class? The goal of this class is to help you learn how to draw any object off of a reference before painting it with the help of overall and secondary shapes. Since our focus is on getting the shapes right, the sketch we are making in this class is not intended as a final artwork with all the shading and details. That would be a separate class for another time.

Patricia Lopez

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