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Drawing Fundamentals


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This plan will focus on building and practicing the following skills:
- Mark Making & Perspective
- Values
- Composition
- Form / Rendering

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Plan Outline


Unit 1: Mark Making & Perspective

Milestone: After this unit, you'll have a good understanding of best practices for mark making and basic perspective.

Optional Unit Challenge: Do the challenges on Drawabox.com

Task: Draw a box Lesson 0 and 1


Practice:

Do all the recommended practice exercises as outlined in Lesson 1.

Notes:

This is a wonderful way to start learning good technique and habits that will help you become an expert.


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Task: Draw a box Lessons 2 and 3


Practice:

Do the practice exercises as details on drawabox.com


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Unit 2: Composition

Milestone: After this unit, you'll know what a pleasing composition looks like and have sketched thumbnails to practice composing a scene yourself.

Optional Unit Challenge:

Task: ModernDayJames - Composition 1


Practice:

Draw thumbnails and play around with different compositions.


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Task: Aaron Blaise - methods for finding pleasing compositions


Practice:

Draw rough sketches practicing the techniques outlined in the video.


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Unit 3: Values

Milestone: Learn basics of value and how this contributes to a readable and pleasing drawing.

Optional Unit Challenge: Perform value studies on master works.

Task: Watch: Proko video on values


Practice:

Perform value studies on your favorite master works.


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Task: Watch: Proko video on notan studies


Practice:

Practice along with Proko and do some notan studies.


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Unit 4: Rendering

Milestone: Learn how light interacts with form and how to start shading realistically

Optional Unit Challenge:

Task: Watch: Proko video on shading


Practice:

Draw and render different shapes


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Task: Read: How to Render by Scott Robertson


Practice:

Practice by following the exercises and examples in the book


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(4.5)
Great Overall

I haven't tried the last task in the plan (the book), but all other tasks are great. I love Proko and drawabox - drawabox really helped me think in 3-D