The Art & Science of Drawing / BASIC SKILLS

There's a class on udemy that teaches the basics from scratch. It's pretty neat and anyone can do it.

It's called the Art and Science of Drawing by Brent Eviston.

Link: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-art-and-science-of-drawing/

To paint you need to be able to draw, if you need to start there I would recommend this course. There are 8 modules and they go on sale frequently.

If it's important: I'm going through this Udemy course while I also try drawing things I have around my office. The picture above is my first attempt at any human subject -- I'd love any advice you can offer. I'm so new at this that I hesitate to ask for feedback on any particular thing; there's obviously so much to learn and improve on!

Hey my dude, I'm going through these courses and I'd highly recommend them, I've learned so much in the last year.

Brent Eviston's The Art and Science of Drawing - it's on Udemy, https://www.udemy.com/course/the-art-and-science-of-drawing/

This is the first course that covers some fundamentals, there are others that eventually go into Gesture, Figure drawing, shading etc. In my opinion, Brent is a great instructor, his course helped me tremendously.

The other resource I can recommend (I'm actually working through it now) is drawabox.com. It's free and the lessons are comprehensive and really help with developing not only your skills but also your mindset on drawing.

I hope this is helpful!

It's not my favorite resource, but "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" explains it kind of like this:

When a child draws a face, they draw the head, two eyes, a nose, a mouth. When an experienced artist draws a face, they draw lines.

You need to start to see things as lines, shapes, shading. Not features.

This course helped me a lot: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-art-and-science-of-drawing/ . I don't have any connection to the course other than I've used it and it was effective for me to start thinking about how to approach drawing.

I'm not an visual artist by any means, but I've seen great instruction on youtube. Entire playlists. However, if you're willing to part with a few dollars there are also curated classes on udemy that look really good. Here is a link

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-art-and-science-of-drawing/

Granted, you wont have feedback, but I'm sure you could post before/afters on reddit and get some pointers

TheVirtualInstructor.com is your friend. Not many people will admit this, but blindly following unrelated youtube videos is confusing, frustrating, and does little to focus on the foundational skills you need. Give https://www.udemy.com/course/the-art-and-science-of-drawing/ a try as well, the instructor gives you all the tools you need to build on. It IS hard, but the pay off is incredible once you start seeing improvements. Work on drawing from the shoulder (not the wrist) and holding your pencil in the overhand. Once you get those, you'll be able to make precise lines and shapes, once you have lines and shapes, you are able to build forms. From forms, work on value, and so on and so on. Taking one of these subjects out of sequence makes things very hard. I also highly recommend "Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Begginer" by Claire Watson Garcia.

Good to hear you can finally draw :) Just do it a lot and try to follow some courses on udemy like: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-art-and-science-of-drawing/ and perhaps get a book like https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Draw-30-Days/dp/0738212415. It's all uphill from here so enjoy the ride and best of luck :)

I liked these collections on udemy.

This is just a few of the courses by Brent Eviston on Udemy, he has done many more. I personally like his courses and style of teaching, hes pretty informative and easy to listen and follow.

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-art-and-science-of-drawing/

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-art-science-of-drawing-shading-fundamentals/

https://www.udemy.com/course/figuredrawing/

https://www.udemy.com/course/asfd-shading/