Drawing Fundamentals (Ace, Certified Instructor)

**Please note** It’s important to  consider the levels of drawing classes offered to find a drawing level appropriate for your learner: 

Intro to Drawing (little or no experience with drawing) https://outschool.com/classes/art-with-ms-amy-intro-to-drawing-the-potential-of-the-pencil-uIRhyp8Y?usid=7WJIn5dw&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link

Draw like An Artist (some experience with drawing) https://outschool.com/classes/art-with-ms-amy-drawing-101-l0MH5izR?usid=7WJIn5dw&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link

Drawing Fundamentals 
(some drawing experience required) https://outschool.com/classes/drawing-fundamentals-art-with-ms-amy-vxHhYUJb?sectionUid=f214e504-7878-4bc3-830e-c11aa38e2c58&showDetails=true

Advanced Drawing- (drawing experience required) https://outschool.com/classes/advanced-drawing-certified-art-educator-and-artist-JD4l5p1E?usid=7WJIn5dw&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link


 In this ongoing course, learners explore a different drawing technique each week. Certified educator and artist, Amy Pollman will introduce a new concept via a short demo and examples from artists and art history and students will spend the remainder of class experimenting with the new techniques. We will cover a variety of drawing topics: value, texture, line, negative/positive space, perspective, rendering, composition, portraits, landscapes, animals, optical illusion, symmetry, scale, and art fundamentals are just to name a few. Students will have an opportunity to receive feedback from their peers and instructor about their work. They will also be provided the opportunity to give feedback to others. Learners are encouraged to post their work in the Classroom, as it will operate an an online rolling gallery exhibition. 

The topic for the following week will be announced a week prior to each class as well as a prompt to consider. Learners can subscribe weekly or drop-in at their convenience. This is an beginning/ intermediate level course and experience and comfortability with basic drawing terms and skills is recommended.

The schedule is as follows with a few exceptions as needed: 

Week 1: drawing vocabulary and materials 

Week 2: Lines, contour, blind contour, line weight

Week 3: cross contour- matrix world

Week 4: Value and texture
 
Week 6: Negative and Positive space
 
Week 6: Composition, scale and value structure
 
Week 7: Candy

Week 8: interior Exterior
 
Week 8: Portraits and hair
 
Week 9: Human Body- Gesture
 
Week 10: Body in space
 
Week 11: Quadrant landscape
 
Week 12: Cats
 
Week 13: Architecture
 
Week 14: Mythical Sea Creatures
 
Week 15: Incredible Vehicles
 
Week 17: Illusion textures
 
Week 18: 2 pt perspective city scapes
 
Week 19: Quadrant drawings
 
Week 20: hands
 
Week 21: feet
 
Week 22: using black paper with white pencil
 
 
Week 23: symbolic still life
 
Week 24: stylized illustration
 
Week 25: Reflective surfaces
 
Week 26: creating expression
 
Week 27: botanical illstration

Week 28: scientific illustration
 
Week 29: Invisible worlds
 
Week 30: Graphic Art Designing logo
 
Week 31: Stone Letters
 
Week 33: Emphasizing the white of the paper
 
Week 34:  Flying creatures
 
Week 35: dogs
 
Week 36: horses
 
Week 37: birds
 
Week 39: People animal hybrids
 
Week 40: 2D Design
 
Week 41: Conceptual Drawing
 
Week 44: Shadows and highlights

Week 45: natural forms as illusions of distance in landscape
 
Week 46: Comic book art - narrative
 
Week 47: Exploring abstraction
 
Week 48: Exploring expression
 
Week 49: Exploring surrealism
 
Week 50: Overlap and intersection
 
Week 51: Seascapes and drawing water
 
Week 52: Optical illusion drawings