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Beginning Drawing - Draw What You See! Improve Drawing Skills! Self-Paced
Class experience
US Grade 9 - 12
Beginner Level
In this 4 week class we will be exploring the basics drawing, doing exercises to help improve drawing skills, as well as creating great artwork. Students will create sketches and one drawing project a week. The class will be fun and will give students freedom in the subject matter that they chose to draw. Exercises will be interesting and we will start from the very beginning! The lessons will include, elements of art, value and the use of drawing pencils, contour, positive and negative...
4 lessons//4 Weeks
Week 1Lesson 1Upside Down Drawing - Right Brain vs LeftThis week, we'll be exploring a fun technique called upside-down drawing! By flipping our artwork, we challenge the left brain's focus on recognizing objects and activate the right brain's creativity. This allows us to focus on shapes, lines, and relationships between elements, potentially leading to more surprising and expressive drawings.Week 2Lesson 2Blink Contour and ValueUnleash your inner artist this week with two exciting drawing techniques! We'll be diving into blind contour drawing, where you focus on capturing the lines and movement of your subject without looking at your paper. This fun challenge encourages a more intuitive approach. Then, we'll explore value drawing, where we focus on light and shadow using a range of tones. By combining these techniques, you'll gain a deeper understanding of form and create captivating artwork!Week 3Lesson 3Positive vs Negative SpaceThis week, we'll be exploring the magic of positive and negative space! Imagine a puzzle - the positive space is the image you're building, like a cat, while the negative space is the leftover area around it. By learning to see and use both spaces effectively, you can create more interesting drawings!Week 4Lesson 4Gesture and Figure DrawingWe're getting loose this week with gesture and figure drawing! We'll start by capturing the essence of a pose through quick, flowing lines (gesture drawing). Then, we'll use these gestures as a foundation to build more detailed figures, focusing on capturing movement and form.
Materials needed for this class: Sketchbook (or sketch paper) Pencil (or pencil set) Handouts printed (I will provide these) A few random objects to draw
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I am excited to join Outschool as an art teacher! I LOVE art! I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art from the University of Central Florida with a concentration in painting. I have been teaching private art lessons for 25 years and have been...
Self-Paced Class
$12
weekly or $45 for all content4 pre-recorded lessons
4 weeks of teacher feedback
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1 year of access to the content
Completed by 146 learners
Ages: 13-18
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