Artistic Drawing for Beginners

Overview

“In this lesson I will talk about drawing as a tool not only technical, but also mental. This way you will better understand the point of view in which we place ourselves in this course when talking about drawing. During the course you will learn basic drawing skills and techniques in order to later apply the acquired knowledge to personal projects of any type of graphic representation. Although the project of this course consists of making a realistic drawing, this knowledge will help you to think visually in a broader way and to observe consciously and analytically, and thus be able to apply this learning in projects of all kinds.”

In this video lesson Ester N. Lloveres addresses the topic: What Will We Do In This Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Drawing for Beginners. Learn academic observation techniques for drawing what you see.

Partial transcription of the video

“What will we do in the course? In this lesson I will explain what we will do. In the course we will see the fundamentals of artistic drawing and the phases of the creative process. Just observing something is useless, drawing it makes us pay more attention and let's memorize their shapes more. It is often believed that realistic painting and drawing they are based on detail or on being very faithful to reality. Actually, this process involves completely abstracting the shapes, the light tones and colors and build from there. So all the forms, however complex and detailed they may be, can be...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Drawing for Beginners

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (277)
• 7798 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (2h 3m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing