Drawing For Painters
How to accurately draw what you see before you paint it.
Description
Drawing for Painters covers the skills that every painter needs. This course addresses the common problems artists encounter. Your instructor, Desiree Holmes Scherini, is an artist and arts instructor, recognized as a top painting instructor, she has been teaching drawing and painting since 2003. In this course she takes you through lessons just as she would in her classroom, with easygoing presentation full of valuable information. Here you have your private lessons to use whenever needed, with instructional drawings provided in resources to download and use. This course will give you the tools to start right and move quickly to a successful painting!
What You Will Learn!
- This course will give students the fundamentals necessary to draw what they see accurately, before they begin their painting.
- The skills students will take away from this course are many that will make their artwork joyful, not stressful!
- one and two point perspective
- using shapes to create objects
- placement in space of objects in a group
- "sight size" using a brush handle or pencil to determine proportions
- building the drawing using relationships within the subject (using angles to create reference marks)
- drawing from life or photos
Who Should Attend!
- Painters who want to improve their painting experience with needed drawing skills.
- Artists who want to be able to evaluate their drawing or painting to figure out "whats wrong".
- The artist who wants to avoid the pitfall of having a painting fail because the drawing was at fault.
- This is an excellent starting point for any new artist. Best to learn these skills before starting to paint.