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If you are interested in becoming a member, you’ll find one of the most comprehensive, organized, easy-to-understand online drawing courses available! Keep reading to find out just how valuable this course is (watch the lesson previews below!), what you’ll get, and which pricing options fit you best!
PRICING
If you’ve ever looked into college courses, you know just how expensive that can run!
Just one semester of art classes at your local university can run you over $1,400.00. One class alone could cost upwards of $500.00. That’s not to mention all the fees for books, materials, and gasoline for the commute.
For this comprehensive, college-level course, you could easily expect to pay $500.00 or more. However, I am not charging $500.00. I’m not charging $400.00 or $300.00 or even $200.00.
The nature of this course is such that you will have a great opportunity to absorb and practice each lesson’s concepts before tackling the next one. Going at this pace will maximize your chances of truly mastering all the concepts presented in this course.
MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP: For a monthly membership fee of $27, you get
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Access to the variety of Members-Only videos that go beyond the scope of the 12 “Drawing Secrets Revealed” lessons to explore topics such as rendering reflective objects, vignetting a subject, different ways to light a portrait, drawing drapery and fabric, and much more. This content is added on an ongoing basis and is available for individual purchase on our Store page, but YOU get them as a free bonus as part of your membership!
Here’s what’s in
Drawing Secrets Revealed: Art Video Instruction
Online Video Course.
This is a COLLEGE-LEVEL course that is worth your money. Each module of this drawing instruction is released WEEKLY to allow you time to watch the video lesson and practice the concepts presented for maximum absorption. Each lesson includes a new video that teaches you specific secrets to mastering drawing, as well as exercises and supplemental materials conveniently accessible beneath the corresponding video:
Lesson 1: Getting Started
In the first lesson, I lay the groundwork for a successful learning experience by showing you all the materials necessary for this course and a brief overview of why they are useful. I also demonstrate various pencil grips and when they are needed, as this is one of the secrets to successful drawing. I will also be sharing some shading techniques as well as tips that you probably won’t find elsewhere, tips that I myself use every time I draw and paint!
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Lesson 2: Basic Shapes
Become familiar with the basic shapes that are found in any composition and see in detail how to incorporate them into your drawing. Once you train your eyes to see the basic shapes in a composition, you will find sketching that composition exponentially easier!
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Lesson 3: The Block-In
Discover how to get the outline of your image placed correctly on the page. Ground your drawing philosophy in the basic but often-missed concept of “start big, go small” – technique even used by the Old Masters! You will see the progressive stages of drawing as you learn to start a drawing “big and loose” and only then work in your details. This is one of the most elusive concepts for artists to grasp, and artists who miss it produce amateur work. But I will teach you how.
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Lesson 4: Values
In this lesson, you will learn how to correctly evaluate lights and darks in your compositions to make your drawings realistic and three-dimensional. Be aware that even if you have drawing experience, chances are very good that you will learn something new in this lesson.
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Lesson 5: Action Drawing
This lesson will loosen you up so you can see the dynamic movement that is the core of your drawing. My students say this lesson was particularly helpful as they steadily broke their habit of starting a drawing with details by putting in details too soon.
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Lesson 6: Relative Proportions
In this lesson, you will explore beyond the proportions of individual objects, and see how objects relate to each other. Many compositions include more than one subject, and this module is important to help you gauge proportions by measuring objects against others.
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Lesson 7: Facial Proportions
One of the most interesting and compelling, and therefore popular, areas of art is the human face and form. Once you have a solid foundation such as I provide in Lessons 1-5, you will be ready to embark on the journey from seeing an interesting subject and actually being able to render that likeness on the page. This lesson includes some time-tested techniques that will help you understand the “HOW,” not just the “WHAT.” You will also learn how to examine individual faces and make small adjustments that can be the difference between an accurate likeness and an inaccurate one.
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Lesson 8: Body Proportions
This lesson will teach you the classic proportions of the human body. Being able to draw a human figure is just something you “naturally” do, nor is it just “chance” that you happen to draw a good figure once. There are scientific, quantifiable methods for capturing proper human proportions. As in the Facial Proportions lesson, you will learn how to make adjustments to accurately depict specific figure types.
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Lesson 9: Learning to Grid
Teaching students the process of gridding is one of the most rewarding for me because I can see in a very short time many “a-ha!” moments from my students. As they begin to perceive shapes and shadows instead of lines and objects, which is what you have already begun to do by this lesson, they are able to tackle more detailed work such as facial features with greater ease and accuracy than they ever expected!
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Lesson 10: Gridding the Human Face
Once you have mastered gridding facial features, you will be prepared to combine all of the elements of the human face together with greater precision. This is a technique that the great Renaissance artist Raphael used to transfer his model image to a larger surface area.
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Lesson 11: Linear Perspective
This is a concept that most teachers will present at the front end of their instruction, but I have it toward the end because there is a necessary foundation you must build before you can proficiently incorporate perspective.
It is essential, but through my years of training and learning, I have come to the conclusion that perspective is better taught after more foundational principles. If you have any interest at all in including landscapes, cityscapes, or any kind of architecture in your drawings, this lesson is an absolute MUST.
UPDATE: NOW, Linear Perspective, formerly split into Lessons 11 and 12, has been combined into Lesson 11, to leave room for a whole NEW lesson on COMPOSITION!
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Lesson 12: Elements of Compositions
Fittingly placed at the end of the “Drawing Secrets Revealed” series but able to stand alone, “Elements of Composition” punctuates all the concepts presented in the series with terrific tips and “secrets” for identifying and arranging interesting, compelling compositions to draw or paint. Even having all your drawing skills mastered is no guarantee that viewers will be arrested by your work. This lesson gives you the tools to accomplish this!
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