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Friday, May 8. 2020

Free time? Learn to draw


Master the fundamentals of drawing with this discounted course bundle. Get the bundle for $40.


Painting is a fine challenge, but drawing is the basic visual art form.  This is excellent, and I have no talent for it. I did it before it went on sale. All it takes is a pencil and piece of paper. No tech, no paint, no cameras.


I remember working with charcoal and pencils in secondary school, and I loved it but never pursued it.  


Drawing has been the foundation of the visual arts for over 50,000 years, and it still is. 




Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:42 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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In eighth grade, we were all required to take an art class. On the first day, we all had to draw "a girl". Mine was pathetic - pretty much like a stick figure. But Mr. Bates didn't laugh at us. He went on to explain that all human figures could be made by ovals and circles, and showed us how to do it. We learned the dimension of the human face and I actually learned how to draw one. Thank you, Mr. Bates.
#1 snopercod on 2020-05-08 18:40 (Reply)
Thanks for the information.
Signed up before I finished your post.
#2 jake on 2020-05-08 18:49 (Reply)
do you really need a course?

Get the cheapest paper you can - if you have a printer at home you probably generate lots of stuff that's clear on one side.

Get some pencils. You can actually get everything you need for your first year of "art school" at the dollar store.

Work through the exercises in this book - which is used in many art schools:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=drawing%20right&and[]=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

Then work through the somewhat more involved exercises in this book - which was long THE standard text on realistic drawing:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=natural%20way%20to%20draw

Both these books are available on other sharing sites like issuu. Plenty more free books about drawing at archive.org

Money quotes from the Nicolaides book:

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes, the sooner you can correct them.

If you painted steadily for eight months, I couldn't keep you from learning how to handle paint if I tried.
#3 Ben David on 2020-05-09 15:03 (Reply)

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