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Essential Drawing Course for Beginners

Discover the essential drawing techniques that will help you create realistic and convincing artwork. Join the live online classes every Tuesday at Prima Materia Institute and learn how to draw portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and more using various mediums. Develop your skills and receive expert feedback for a well-rounded beginner artist experience.

  • Beginner
  • 15 and older
  • $525
  • Virtual Classroom
  • 18 hours over 12 sessions
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  • $525
  • Virtual Classroom
  • 18 hours over 12 sessions
  • Full course: 12 classes + lifetime access to recordings
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Class Description

Description

What you'll learn in this beginner drawing class:

Learn all the drawing fundamentals that will help you draw realistically and convincingly. This drawing course includes 12 online classes. The classes take place in real-time every Tuesday at 6:30pm Pacific Time via Zoom.

The Essential Drawing Course for Beginners covers 12 crucial topics every beginner artist needs to know. You'll be exposed to a variety of subject matter (portraits, still lives, landscapes) in different mediums (graphite, charcoal, pen and ink) so by the end of the course, you'll be comfortable with drawing - no matter what the subject is or what medium you choose to use. The instructor demonstrates each project and because the class is online, you'll have a front-row seat to see the demo. Follow along step by step and ask questions at any time. You'll also have the opportunity to get feedback on your drawing during class.

Learn how to

  • Shade in 12 styles inspired by masters throughout art history, 
  • Draw with negative shapes, 
  • Render texture in a landscape, 
  • Create an interior with accurate one-point perspective, 
  • Draw portraits with convincing proportions, 
  • Correct mistakes in pen and ink
  • Compose a still life in 15 different ways, 
  • Create a 3D still life with tonality, 
  • Express depth and space through tonal relationships, 
  • Develop volume with lines
  • Draw upside down to practice seeing shapes instead of things
  • Sketch in quick hand

You’ll complete at least one drawing in each class, and will be encouraged to continue practicing with a home assignment that is provided after every session.

Benefits

  • Receive photo references for each technique
  • Become comfortable with drawing
  • Develop skills to become a well-rounded beginner artist
  • See what other student's are creating in class
  • Ask questions and receive instructor critique on your drawings in real time
  • Have access to recordings to review any of the classes

The objective of the Essential Drawing Course is to give you breakthroughs in your art so you can see that it is possible to learn to draw well! All you need are the techniques, and we're here to show you.

Start the course on any Tuesday. There is rolling enrollment, as each session is a stand-alone class. The course restarts every 12 weeks. If you have to miss a class, you will be able to catch up when the course restarts.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

  • Cancellations made at least 2 business days in advance of the class will be honored with a refund less 5% cancellation fee.
  • Students who cancel less than 2 business days prior to the start time of the class will receive a credit towards a future class.
In the event that an instructor or the school needs to cancel at the last minute, students will receive a refund less a 5% non-refundable registration fee.

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