Drawing from life is the best practice there is. Establishing clear light and shadow shapes is the most important part! Here's Steve Huston talking about keeping your rendering simple.ĭraw what you see. You don't need to kill yourself trying to render out every drawing to a high degree of finish. Here's a video from Love Life Drawing - there'll be more of their stuff in the Figure Drawing starter pack - with an exercise to help you draw what you see.

How to Shade a Drawing and his 2 hour live shading demoĭraw With Jazza talks about deliberate practice in this video on how to practice art effectively and keep it interesting at the same time. While Proko tends to focus on figure drawing he's got some good basic drawing stuff as well: This is Sadie Valeri showing how to start your drawings with a loose block-in. These are the 'greatest hits' that you'll get the most use from: They're not pithy little 5 minute 'cover one topic quickly' things they're recording of his classroom lectures, so they're all around an hour or more long. John Muir Laws is a great teacher with a lot of great videos.

If you end up with a stack of drawings with notes all over them, that's a good thing! That stack and those notes becomes your next project: redraw them with those notes in mind. If the video mentions something like a mistake you know you made in a previous drawing, pause the video, grab that drawing, and make a note of that mistake. Treat them more like a class you attend once or twice a week, and take notes while you're watching. Short, simple, very basic, but is a good 'I've never drawn at all before, how the hell do I start?' introduction.įor the rest of these videos, don't try to power through them as quickly as you can. This is /u/cajolerisms favorite video, how to draw anything.

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