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Learn to Draw at Your Pace

Improve observational and imaginative drawing skills in private tutoring sessions with a pro. All levels welcome!
Valerie Light
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:
(5)
Class

What's included

Meets on Demand
schedule meetings as needed
85 mins
per session
Teacher support
Assessment
Verbal self-assessment

Class Experience

This is a one-on-one art tutoring class to share tips and tricks to improve your drawing skills. For 1 hour and 25 minutes you'll have the undivided attention of a professional artist to help you on whatever has you stuck. At the beginning of class, we'll talk about what kind of art you like to make. Show me 2 or 3 of your favorite pieces. Tell me what you love about them, and together we’ll decide what skills to work on today. I’ll meet you wherever you are as an artist, and I'm excited to see how you'll improve and grow! 

Some examples of topics I could demo and draw with you include: 
- Improving perspective and sense of space
- Adding a sense of volume with shading and contour drawing
- Portrait and figure drawing improvement with lessons on proportions and character design
- Composition and its role in narrative art pieces
- Gesture drawing, and learning how to read a character's intention through silhouette
- Understanding value scales 
- Improving color use with lessons on color theory
- Observational drawing tutorials

For this class, I’m happy to work with you in the following media: pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, pen and ink, and/or Procreate on iPad. Let me know what to have ready to demo for you!

Please plan to have a camera aimed down at your drawing on a tabletop, and I’ll do the same. You can shop for phone stands that are marketed to artists to film their art processes. They are really useful for this, if you have one, or just prop the phone on a box under your chin. I can show you how.
Learning Goals
This is a self-directed tutoring session. You can come to me with a specific topic you want to work on, or you can show me some of your pieces and ask for feedback on what skills to work on. I’ll do my best to show you demonstrations and work with you to improve 1-on-1.
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Other Details

Supply List
Please be ready with your paper and pencils or other media, or iPad with Procreate. It would be great if you have a desk lamp to shine on your paper so I can clearly see it. 
You'll need to run the Outschool zoom with a phone on a stand. You can purchase one, or get creative and make a contraption that points the camera straight down at your iPad on the table in front of you. You'll probably need to have the phone screen right under your chin. That lets you see what controls I'm demoing on my iPad at the same time I can see yours.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined May, 2023
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Teacher expertise and credentials
I'm a professional scenic artist, designer, educator, and illustrator with 20+ years of traditional drawing experience and 3+ years of Procreate. I am a published author/illustrator who makes art with watercolor and Procreate, plus some other things. 
See my recent art at www.valerielightillustration.com and my past scenic art, business, and design work at www.valerielight.com.

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$60

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85 min

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Ages: 13-18

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