Basic Skills / The Art & Science of Drawing Series

Drawing is not a talent. It’s a skill anyone can learn. BASIC SKILLS is a remarkable course that will teach you the basics of drawing one day at a time.

Here’s how it works:

Each day you’ll watch one video lesson that will teach you essential drawing skills.  At the end of each lesson you’ll be given a project designed to build your drawing skills quickly and efficiently.  After doing the project, you’re ready for the next day’s lesson and project! 

In this beginning drawing course you’ll learn:

How to use the pencil like an artist

How to draw any shape

How to analyze and draw any subject by simplifying it into basic shapes

BASIC SKILLS is overflowing with powerful insights into the drawing process and offers some of the clearest, most accessible drawing instruction available.  Many of the tools and techniques you'll learn here are rarely seen outside of private art academies.

BASIC SKILLS is the first course in The Art & Science of Drawing series designed to take students from the absolute basics to advanced drawing techniques like perspective drawing and shading. If you're a beginner, we recommend going through the entire series in the followin