Drawing and Sketching for Designers (and Everyone Else!)
Establish a strong foundation for graphic design by learning how to effectively draw and visually communicate ideas.
What you’ll learn
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Effectively communicate visually with drawing.
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Drawing gesture drawings, structural drawings, product sketches, and more.
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Apply appropriate value (lighting and shading), texture, and line in drawings.
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Apply effective composition in drawings, designs, and logo designs.
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Apply dozens of types of mark making methods with a variety of materials (pencil, charcoal, and conté).
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Draw form-based products with appropriate mark making and shading.
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Combine various shapes and forms to produce more complicated drawings of objects and products.
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Draw the head and face with appropriate proportion.
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Draw objects and a scene in one-point perspective.
Requirements
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Students should have access to at least a pencil, paper, eraser, and pencil sharpener. To follow along exactly with the instructor, a set of pencils will be needed as well as a few other items, described in the first section (set to free preview).
Who this course is for:
- Anyone wanting to effectively communicate in visual form by using drawing.
- Graphic designers wanting to improve their drawing skills.
- Graphic designers, logo designers and others wanting to learn and apply compositional principles in designs and drawings.
- Anyone who wants to learn and apply effective line work, shading, mark making, perspective, and composition in order to produce interesting and informative drawings and designs.
