Drawing is an ESSENTIAL skill an artist needs to master.
Drawing is everything. Whether you are an illustrator, painter, animator, character designer, vis dev artist, comic book artist, or anything in between, your success hinges on your ability to draw. In this class, I will help you establish strong, indispensable fundamentals to help you quickly make progress with the most important aspect of your art.
If you are a pure beginner, or someone with a little bit of drawing experience, this is the course for you!
This course is how I personally learned to draw, starting with zero talent and zero experience!
Each chapter is a lesson that was essential to my own learning - allowing me to draw everything from characters, to environments and backgrounds. It will be like a road map, highlighting each important stop on my own route to becoming a professional artist. I will be teaching through the lens of how I learned the concepts when I was a beginner artist, with insights into how I still use them today.
The concepts and fundamentals will be shown both in a theoretical way using lectures and deconstruction of artworks, and then immediately applied to real-world uses, as I draw through many demonstrations. The demonstrations also act as homework assignments, as they are specifically targeted to drill the principles and fundamentals presented.
Why draw? I want to paint!
In short: painting is drawing. Drawing is the foundation of representational art, be it stylized/cartoony, or realistic. Drawing is the realm of gesture, shape, form, and design. As a professional artist of &gt;15 years, when I paint, the #1 thing I'm thinking about in my head is drawing, often using principles I learned in my first year as a student. With the tools in this class, you will not only be able to draw better, but your paintings will automatically get elevated, too! 
What you'll get out of the class:
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<li>Learn how to capture life in your drawing</li>
<li>Obtain all the essential fundamentals you need, and a way to see like an artist</li>
<li>Insight into how nature works, in both volume and shape</li>
<li>Tools and fundamentals for figures, characters, and backgrounds</li>
<li>A method of building your drawing up in stages, from gesture, to 3D form, to final lines and shapes</li>
<li>How to determine what is essential to capture quickly, vs what can be developed or added later</li>
<li>A way of determining what is important vs. what isn't</li>
<li>How to analyze reference properly, and not simply copy it</li>
<li>A method of practicing fundamentals separately, for on-the-go learning, as well as how to eventually combine them for more advanced study</li>
<li>Solid tools and practices that will form the foundation of your paintings and color work as well</li>
<li>In the modern world of AI generated images, these are tools and lessons that will help your work stand apart, ultimately allowing you to do what an AI can't. This will not only elevate your artwork and help you get noticed, but also make you far more hirable, if your goal is to work professionally</li>
<li>An included PDF regimen for actionable, daily study</li>
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Course is over 9 hours in length NOT software specific! Information is 100% applicable to traditional and digital media. Difficulty rating: This class is targeted specifically towards beginners, with concepts and exercises that get built up to the intermediate level (of course, featuring tools and techniques that advanced artists use!)

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