Begin or refresh your artistic journey with this fun and informative course, perfectly suited for beginners and students returning to art classes after a long hiatus. This class helps you learn or rekindle basic drawing skills with this historic and timeless medium. Students focus on developing precise measuring and drawing techniques while cultivating sensitivity and control in your hand.
Through Linda's unique curriculum, carefully designed projects improve your hand-to-eye coordination while teaching proportion and accurate measurement. You'll master best practices for sketching and shading with graphite pencil to produce dimension, perspective, and texture on paper. By course completion, you'll have created line and tone drawings suitable for building a portfolio or simply for personal artistic enjoyment. Discover how to bring flat drawings to vivid three-dimensional life.
This course is ideal for those interested in drawing for fine art, cartoons, commercial or book illustration, and storyboards.
Drawing Lessons for Children: Linda works successfully with aspiring young artists as young as age seven. If you're seeking art instruction for your child, you've found the right place.
Please Note: This is not a "copy the teacher" format where everyone creates the same image.
Prerequisites: None. This is a foundational course and must be taken before progressing to advanced levels. Upon completion, you'll have a collection of finished graphite drawings and receive a certificate of completion required to advance to the next level.
Each course comes with a fun and informative project booklet containing the certificate of completion necessary to move on to the next level. Get started right away.
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.
