Constructive drawing I

The entire course, summarized into a short, easy to memorize article. Share your thoughts and read about what's planned for the future.

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.

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.

Toads are essentially shorter, chubbier lizards. Ideal for practicing overlapping forms to create depth.

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.

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.

How to turn a 2D shape into a 3D object? Let's practice by drawing doughnuts so volumetric they'll make your audience salivate.

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?

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.