Is your teen serious about wanting to improve their drawing skills? In this class, students will learn how to draw realistic hands, horses, people, animals, and more! They’ll also increase their drawing accuracy, create art inspired by old master artists, learn how to shade, create drawings that pop, and discover drawing techniques. 

The class is designed for teens, but advanced tweens would also enjoy it! This is a class for students who are serious about wanting to become advanced in their skills to draw with extreme realism.

This class meets the requirements for A-G / VAPA credit at most homeschool charter schools such as Blue Ridge Academy, Granite Mountain Charter School, Mission Vista Academy, Heartland Charter School, The Cottonwood School, Pacific Coast Academy, Monarch River Academy, Yosemite Valley Charter School, and IEM Schools (Sky Mountain, South Sutter & Ocean Grove - through the Principal’s Certification Process). You can also just take it as a fun elective or for regular high school credit, depending on your goals.

This is a pre-recorded class and there are no live meetings. The class is project-based learning where students will follow along and learn by watching pre-recorded video lessons. Students will post or send their works in the classroom and the teacher will give personalized feedback and if desired, grades. Let your instructor know if you prefer written feedback or video feedback. If applicable: students will post encouraging comments on their classmates' work. 

In this class, students will learn the foundations of realistic drawing through various fun projects with plenty of feedback, and encouragement from the instructor.

The instructor will demonstrate and explain step-by-step in a pre-recorded video as students follow along, creating their own magnificent artwork. Students can copy the instructor’s picture or can add their own creative embellishments and colors. The main goals are that students have fun while creating art they can feel proud to display!

Important! Please let your instructor know if you would like to do an easier or a more advanced version of this course. Let us know what your goals are, and we will do our best to customize it to help you achieve your goals! Below, you'll see a list of sample projects. However, depending on your goals, we might give you other videos and other projects instead, in order to best accommodate your goals and to make sure the class is a great fit for each student! 

Here is the list of topics/projects for this 18-week flex class: 
Lesson 1: Gumball Machine
Lesson 2: Bunny
Lesson 3: Visual Foolery Ladder
Lesson 4: Scrambled Mystery Grid
Lesson 5: The Furniture Store
Lesson 6: Upside Down Drawing
Lesson 7: Draw the Realistic Hands
Lesson 8: Shade the Realistic Hands
Lessons 9 - 14: Advanced Shading
Lesson 15: Portfolio
Lessons 16 & 17: Elements of Art and Principles of Design Overview | Required Reading for A-G and VAPA Students
Lesson 18: catch up week. Let your instructor know if you want extra credit assignments!

Supplies: 
The instructor will demonstrate using the following, but again, students do not need these exact supplies:
Pencil and eraser
Paper (printer paper, cardstock, OR Bristol smooth)
Rulers
Markers (black & pale gray)
Optional: blending stump/tortillon/q-tip, ebony pencils, colored pencils (alternative for the markers)

Please note that if you want the class customized, we can swap out some of the videos, but that might mean additional supplies would be needed, depending on which projects you want to do.