Learn to draw, in your own time
Looking for clear and structured online courses to develop your drawing?
Need help with the basics?
The BASIC DRAWING COURSE introduces line and mark making. It will explain bounding boxes, measurements, horizontal and vertical relationships, enveloping, angle measurements, refining contours and relating the drawing to the edge. It will cover positive and negative shapes. It will show you how to deal accurately yet simply with perspective in all cases and then gradually move you from basic line work into tonal work, explaining tones and how to see them. You will complete the course with a full life drawing plus a drawing project of your own choice.
This may sound like a complex process but each simple module will build on the previous one to become, by the end of the course, a simple to follow, easy to understand, intuitive drawing process that can form the basis of any future work. This drawing process is not about producing ultra realistic pencil drawings - it is an analytical drawing process that helps you fully engage with, understand and convey the subject before you.
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Want to take things further?
The INTERMEDIATE DRAWING COURSE further develops these initial skills by first refining the method into a more iterative and responsive drawing process. It then looks at pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with a pencil before starting to introduce new materials which will include ink, charcoal and pastel. It also considers different surfaces to work on.
This is an example of the video demonstrations:
The introduction of these new materials will allow you to further develop the way that you work with line, looking at the quality and expressiveness of the line. It will also allow you to look again at tonal work, allowing you to push the tonal range further than can be done with pencil, but at the same time looking at the expressiveness that can be created within the tonal work. The course will then begin to gradually introduce colour by looking at very limited colour palettes which then expands, firstly, to a warm and cool palette, then into a limited full range palette, before looking at full range of colours.
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What does it cost?
Subscriptions for students are currently £39 (including V.A.T) for 1 year. Once subscribed you will have access (for one year) to:
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And you also have access to a host of supporting material :
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What support do I get?
These courses are self-paced without direct feedback. Students can:
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What do I need to do to get access?
- Click on the subscriptions link
- Enter a discount code if you have one.
- Pay securely using PayPal (allows Credit Card)
- INSTANT ACCESS - You will get a welcome email in minutes
If you are not completely satisfied there is a full 14-day money-back guarantee. If you are satisfied then why not refer-a-friend and earn up to 15% commission when they subscribe – (Login and refer to “My Account” for more details on the referral program).
Once I have subscribed - how does it work?
- Firstly, login to the site with your username and password
- On the School of Art Tab - online course list - choose full course list
- Enroll in the course that you are interested in (this does not cost anything extra) and you will have access to the module list.
- You will also have access to the 36 page Basement Picasso course study guide which you may wish to read first (view sample 0.6Mb PDF).
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