Sketchbooking for Beginners: Learn to Draw Your Surroundings
Simple Drawings
A course by Maximiliano Vera Herrera , Illustrator
About the video: Simple Drawings
Overview
“Let's start drawing! Now I will start drawing simple objects as a warm-up exercise. ”
In this video lesson Maximiliano Vera Herrera addresses the topic: Simple Drawings, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbooking for Beginners: Learn to Draw Your Surroundings. Overcome your fear of the blank page and learn the fundamentals of drawing any object like a pro.
Partial transcription of the video
“Simple Drawings Now we’ll start on the good stuff. To start drawing, we will use simple and everyday objects as a reference that you can find at home. As you can see, for this exercise I chose a small figure, a charger, a battery, and a pencil sharpener. When you have your composition, objects, and shadows locked, take a picture of them to make it easier to follow the exercise and so the light doesn’t shift as you work. For that, we have our notebook. What we'll do is start locking where you're going to start drawing. Since the composition is square, I'll start in the corner of my notebook....”
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Course summary for: Sketchbooking for Beginners: Learn to Draw Your Surroundings
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Category
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Areas
Creativity, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Maximiliano Vera Herrera
A course by Maximiliano Vera Herrera
Max Vera is a professional illustrator who has collaborated with a range of studios from around the world on editorial projects, animation backgrounds, and character design. Although much of his work is produced digitally, his favorite kind of drawing is done on the street, or in museums, where he always finds something interesting to depict in his sketchbooks.
Over the course of his career, he has worked with brands throughout South America and the United States. He has also participated in group exhibitions such as Muerte Lenta, PlayFair, and Cartoon Madness.
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