Monday Morning Art School: please learn to draw
Drawing is the cheapest and most liberating of all media. All you need is a sketchbook, a mechanical pencil, and a straight-edge.
Monday Morning Art School: why you should draw
I can’t think of a single great painter who couldn’t draw. Vincent van Gogh famously taught himself, and his early drawings are bad enough that they should give us all hope that we too can do better.
Zoom Class: Fundamentals of Drawing
Mondays, 1 PM – 4 PM EST Everyone can and should learn to draw. Some artists believe they can skip this step, but drawing is the basis of all painting. Others are afraid of drawing, but broken down into discrete tasks, drawing is so straightforward that anyone can do it. After teaching painting for several …
Reverse aging by learning to draw
Use it or lose it? No, train it and gain it. Learning a new skill develops mental acuity in the aging brain.
Exercise: Value Drawing Example
In an earlier exercise, you were asked to do notans from this photo. Now, do a careful value study of the same subject. Follow the example in the video; start by identifying major shapes and areas of light and dark. This is an exploratory drawing as well as a composition exercise, so look carefully at …
Value Drawing Example
The last thing we need to do before we can paint is decide how we want to crop our drawing. That step will be covered in Step 3: The Correct Composition .
Exercise: Observational Drawing
Learn to Copy What You See Drawing is all about measurement and angles. Copying other drawings is a great way to learn how to observe detail. When you copy a drawing, you have to pay close attention to the shapes, lines, and angles in the original image. In this exercise, you will copy 5 line …
Observational Drawing
Introduction to Value Drawing
Supplies Strathmore visual journalMechanical pencil(s)Grayscale marker set (optional)
Step 2: The Value Drawing
Better paintings every time The value sketch is the oil painter’s secret weapon. It’s an opportunity to plan your painting in advance, before you ever pick up a brush. And it’s critical; if the value structure is compelling, your painting will be compelling. If not, your painting is doomed from the start. Nothing in painting …