Conscious Drawing Techniques
- Self-paced with Life Time Access
- Certificate on Completion
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Learn to draw easily, while exploring your creative self and building confidence in your drawing and creative abilities.
This is a beginners drawing course which is different to most others! While this course is filled with practical drawing skills and beginner drawing techniques for you to learn, it is also about exploring your potential as a creator and learning to have confidence to be your most creative self. This course will help you to step into your full potential as an artist and individual creator.
You will learn to draw with conscious intention by learning to connect the use of the mind, hand and heart while drawing.
With a series of 14 beautiful drawing exercises which are mostly based in nature, we will explore the following topics:
LESSON 1: DRAWING WITH YOUR WHOLE SELF
- Confidence in your creations.
- Feeling into the process.
- Building a relationship with your hand.
- Our brain, and how you draw with both sides.
LESSON 2: USING YOUR EYES IN A NEW WAY
- Observational techniques
- Positive and negative space
- Seeing all the elements
LESSON 3: SHADOW AND LIGHT
- Tone creates form
- Texture to create shape and character
- Colour – advance and recede
LESSON 4: DIMENSIONAL DRAWING
- Sketching in isometric
- One point perspective
- Two point perspective
LESSON 5: EXPLORATION OF MEDIUMS
- Graphite pencils
- Colour pencil and watercolour
- Charcoal and pastels
- Pens and markers
LESSON 6: INTENTIONAL DRAWINGS
- Choosing your subject
- Compiling your drawing elements
- Creating cohesion
Each topic is discussed in detail and every exercise is fully explained with a video demonstration.
This course is complete with downloadable exercise instructions, a comprehensive downloadable support document for you to review at any time. Download content includes 30+ pages of resources just for you!
As an instructor I am fully available to you and excited to share your drawing journey with you by being fully available to help you at any time!
- Anyone can learn to draw with this course
- You do not need any prior knowledge of drawing
- All you need is paper, a pencil, ruler and eraser!
- Explore your creativity and self expression while learning beginner drawing techniques
- Learn to draw with mindfulness and conscious creation
- Create drawings with creative detail and self expression
- Create drawings with depth, dimension
- Learn to see the world around you in artistic elements and learn how to translate that on to the page
- Draw using observational techniques
- Draw one and two point perspectives
- Create character and form using texture and shading
- Draw beautiful imagery from nature
- Draw and colour with different mediums
- Conceptualise ideas and express those ideas on the page
This introduction will cover what to expect throughout the course, what materials you need and details on how the course is structured.
This is a discussion about having confidence in your creative abilities.
This discussion is about feeling into the process of drawing and setting intentions. This video also demonstrates the first drawing exercise, Drawing without an eraser, where we will draw some beautiful snow capped mountains. Please see the attached resource for the exercise instructions.
Instructions - Please complete the first drawing exercise, or move to the next video to do the meditation.
If you wish to skip both of these components, please move to the next lecture - Building a relationship with your hand.
This meditation will help you to drop into your body, and build confidence in your creating, and connection with your creative self. This meditation is completely optional and can be done now and/or anytime in the future.
This video will discuss the use of your hand in drawing and demonstrate the exercise of drawing infinity symbols to explore how your hand likes to draw and move across the page. Please see the attached resource for the exercise instructions.
A discussion about our brain functions and how the brain feels when in left and right brain modes, which will lead into a demonstration of the left brain drawing exercise. Please see the attached resource for the exercise instructions.
This video is a demonstration on how to complete Exercise 4, Drawing with the right brain, where we will draw a beautiful feather. Please see the attached resource for the exercise instructions.
Learn to observe your subject to more accurately draw what you see, rather than what you know. Includes a demonstration of the timed drawing exercise. Please see the attached resource for the exercise instructions.
This video details how to use positive and negative space to draw with accuracy and includes a demonstration of the corresponding exercise using a shilouette. Please see the attached resource for the exercise instructions.
This video details the elements of art and how we can observe our surroundings through the eyes of an artist, ad translate the elements onto the page. Please see the attached resource for the exercise instructions.
Learn how shadow and light define or surroundings and how to use shading in drawing to create depth and dimension. Includes a demonstration of the stone stack shading exercise. Please see the attached resource for exercise instructions.
This video details how to use texture to create shape and character, while drawing a striking eagle face. Please see the attached resource for exercise instructions.
Learn to sketch in 3D and how to combine shapes to create form. Includes a demonstration of box sketching. Please see the attached resource for exercise instructions.
Learn to draw a one point perspective of a forest road straight from your head! Please see the attached resource for exercise instructions.
Learn to draw a two point perspective of a bird house. Please see the attached resource for exercise instructions.
A discussion on the use of different mediums and their properties leads into a detailed rendering of the forest road drawing, where you will learn many techniques, while creating a beautifully coloured mixed media drawing. Please see the attached resource for exercise instructions.
The final lesson is about bringing together all we have learned and creating an original conceptual artwork which is uniquely you! Please see the attached resource for exercise instructions.
The bonus lecture includes more drawing tips and insights.
Also, feel free to check out My Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGDrJpQTXAh1ZmEdDXq0CgQ
I really enjoyed the course and I was surprised I actually produced some good pieces of art. Well taught and demonstrated and it is nice to be able to work along with the tutor in the projects. I wish there were more courses to enable further growth in skills and knowledge.
