Sketching Techniques Specialization

Overview

“In this lesson, Sarah Van Dongen encourages you to focus on personal research to improve your drawing skills. You can explore various techniques such as line, shape, and negative space by choosing a subject, like dogs in Sarah's case. The process involves starting with simple poses, learning from reference images, and gradually moving toward developing your style and stories. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Inspiration, Research, and Copying , which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketching Techniques Specialization. Explore the power of sketching alongside top-notch drawing masters..

Partial transcription of the video

“It has a clear goal, you want to learn something specific, and research can be fueled by your inspiration. So depending on the topic that you choose, the research will be different. When you choose something more theoretical like line perspective or composition, your research will be different than when you choose to learn to draw a subject like the human figure or a type of animal. The topic that I'm choosing is dogs because I really love dogs, but I feel like I'm not very good at drawing them and I would really like to get better. So I printed out many different pictures of dogs. So for t...”

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Course summary for: Sketching Techniques Specialization

• Level: Beginner
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• 8785 students
• 9 units
• 94 lessons (15h 44m)
• 51 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Botanical Illustration, Character Design, Children's Illustration, Colored Pencil Drawing, Creativity, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Gouache Painting, Ink Illustration, Naturalistic Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting