See how a Course Works: Intro to Online Learning
Description
Gatlin International's Drawing I course offers a wide variety of drawing lessons for beginners.
Many people are afraid to draw, but the truth is that drawing is not as hard as it seems. If you can relax, get your mind around the task, and begin to understand what you see, you can draw.
Our drawing lessons for beginners will teach you how to analyze what you see in the world around you and communicate it on paper. Through hands-on projects, and guided by a professional artist, you will explore the critical concepts of line, mass, form, perspective, value, and composition, building a solid foundation for all your art and design work. You will also delve into complex drawing techniques involving value, color, and contemporary stylistic approaches.
And most importantly, you'll also discover that drawing can be fun. Did you know that spheres have inner edges? Or why artists measure with their thumbs? Grab your charcoal and chalk pastels... this course is your first step to developing your craft as an artist.
If you've ever wished you could draw, our drawing lessons for beginners course is for you. Enroll today and start to unleash your creative potential.
Outline
LESSON 1 How We See (Getting from Here to There)
Lesson One focuses on learning to see the form of objects in the physical world. Rather than drawing every last detail in your subjects, will learn to recognize the basic form of what you see. Lesson One explores this topic using the gesture drawing technique, helping you develop a sense of mass and space on the page. You'll get an orientation to your art materials, learning how to set up a drawing board and work with charcoal. In the exercise, you'll practice creating different kinds of lines with charcoal and hone your observation skills through gesture drawings.
LESSON 2 Depth and Perspective
Lesson Two deepens your understanding of form, showing you how the elements in your composition can be viewed as fundamental geometrical shapes and objects. You'll also examine the principles of linear perspective, learning about the vanishing point and one-, two-, and three-point perspective, and the phenomenon of foreshortening. Techniques are addressed to help your integrate these ideas into your work along with techniques for using space, depth, and composition. In the exercise, you'll apply all this knowledge to several still life projects.
LESSON 3 Concepts in Value
Separating parts of your drawings into light and dark or shadow areas will go along way toward helping you create the illusion of depth and volume. In this lesson, you'll examine how lighting conditions such location, direction, and angle of light can combine to affect the level of contrast and drama in your drawings. You'll learn how to look for the shadow edge and cast shadow in your still life subjects. In the exercise, you'll create value scales and still life value study drawings of your own.
LESSON 5 Drawing with Color
Everything is more exciting when color is in the mix. This lesson introduces basic color theory and techniques for dry color media (such as pencils and pastel), exploring hue, value, temperature, and harmony. You will learn to mix and blend colors for realistic shades. In the exercise, you'll use colored chalk pastels to create a color wheel, value scale, and two color drawings.
LESSON 6 Drawing in Art
To wrap up this course's intensive look at drawing, you will learn in Lesson Six how drawing is applied in different types of art. You will look at art samples and techniques for drawing from photographs, creating photomontages or collages, and even creating abstract expressionist works. You'll have your choice of these styles in the exercise to create an amazing final piece.
Additional Info
- Languages
- English
- Course Length
- 60.00 hours
- Duration of Access
Enrolled students have access to the class for six months. During this period, questions or assignments may be submitted at any time to the instructor. Each course lesson requires an average of 10 hours of study time.
- Instructor
Jordon Schranz is a New York/New Mexico-based visual artist, musician, curator, and educator whose work focuses on the idea of social and political interaction and their underlying cultural structures. Jordon earned his BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Currently he is working in Las Cruces, New Mexico on an extensive project based on security camera footage and themed around issues of privacy and surveillance. In addition, Jordon is an active member of the New York experimental music scene, regularly curating, performing, recording, and promoting avant-rock, free jazz, noise, and experimental music performances in addition to running Tigerasylum. Jordon is the Director of Fine Arts for the Sessions Online School of Fine Arts and an instructor at the Las Cruces Museum of Art and the Preston Contemporary Art Center.
- Prerequisites/Audience
These drawing lessons for beginners are designed for adult learners interested in building skills and portfolio for a design career. To take the course, students simply require a computer (PC or Mac), an Internet connection (56 Kbps modem or faster), and any required software. For courses with software requirements, computers must meet software manufacturers' system requirements.
- Requirements/Materials Included
To take this course you'll need drawing materials, a digital camera capture your work digitally for submission. Basic pencil drawing experience is recommended but not required.
- Certification
3 CEU’s
Sessions College is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC). Certificate programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Secondary Schools.
