Constructive drawing 1
What?
This is a foundational drawing course, you will learn how to:
- Make drawings look 3D
- Use references
- Draw fantasy creatures from your imagination
Who?
If you feel you're "not a creative spirit" and prefer a more technical, step-by-step approach to drawing, this course is for you.
Prior drawing experience is not needed, but may speed up completion time.
How?
Recommended tools:
- white copy paper
- a black liner / rollerball / gel pen
- a mechanical pencil / a light marker for sketching
Alternatively, the course can be completed using a digital graphics tablet.
For photo reference, I recommend Yandex image search.
For feedback and tips, share your assignments in the Discord study group.
Chapters
01 | Form & Analytical drawing
Are you a slave to copying?
Once you understand what different subjects share in common, you’ll be able to absorb new knowledge much quicker.
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02 | Line
If a house is made of bricks, lines are the bricks of drawing.
Drawing a line from left to right is one thing, but can you make it go forward and back too?
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03 | Volume
How to turn a 2D shape into a 3D object? Let’s practice by drawing doughnuts so volumetric they’ll make your audience salivate.
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04 | Snakes
What do snakes have to do with doughnuts?
Both start out as a curved tubular form. All that’s left is to cover it with scales and put a funny head on one end.
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05 | Lizards
Learning to juggle is a matter of adding balls one at a time, and a lizard isn’t much more complex than a snake. Just sprout some limbs and widen it at the center.
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06 | Toads
Toads are essentially shorter, chubbier lizards. Ideal for practicing overlapping forms to create depth.
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07 | Bats
A bat’s body is constructed similarly to a toad’s, with the added difficulty of wings. To fly, its form is lighter, so the plan is to keep our pencil lighter too.
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08 | Designing fantasy creatures
For the final assignment, combine all the steps to draw your very own fantasy creature.
No copying this time! You have a much better tool at your disposal, sitting on top of your shoulders.
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09 | Final summary
The entire course, summarized into a short, easy to memorize article.
Share your thoughts and read about what’s planned for the future.
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