2D graphics for beginners

Basic drawing is the foundation of the basics for an artist of any discipline. The course is aimed at forming volumetric-spatial and conceptual thinking, studying and drawing volumetric primitives, compound objects and plant forms.

2D-graphics Basic – you will learn techniques and methods for drawing cool art, get basic skills of working with volume, color, tone, materials and create a ready project for a portfolio – a concept of an object in the chosen style.

Month 1

Theory:

• The basics of academic drawing
• Pencil work
• Work in Photoshop/Procreate
• Object proportions
• Line
• Graphic technique
• Perspective
• Building to three points

Practice:

• Texture exercises
• Analytical sketches of objects in frontal view (key/ornament/weapon)
• Drawing three-dimensional geometric bodies (cube, mortises, chamfers)
• Drawing bodies of rotation (cylinder, ball, combining shapes)
• Chest projections

Month 2

Theory:

• Texture exercises
• Architectural objects
• Plasticity and structure in nature

Practice:

• Compound object with texture (chest/casket)
• Architectural object (house/beacon/tower)
• Sketching plants (leaf, houseplant)
• Step-by-step copy of sketching of male and female nature (contrapost) + additional exercises and assignments (optional for those who have time for everything)

Additional lectures: anatomy and plasticity in the female figure – master class by Azat Nurgaleev, lecture “Style and Artist” by Elizaveta Parfenova.

Month 1

Theory:

• Photoshop for the artist: interface and panels, brushes and layers, functions and tools
• Procreate for the artist: panels, brushes, functions and tools
• Physics of light: types and nature of lighting, components of volume, importance of surroundings, reflexes, physics of glare, common mistakes
• Material physics: gloss/matte, texture, SSS, Fresnel effect, caustics, styling techniques
• Rules of volume transfer, working with tone
• Fundamentals of composition

Practice:

• Drawing a series of volume primitives: work with technique and lighting
• Copies of textures: stone, wood, metal
• B/W still life of three figures. Three textures: stone, wood, metal
  

Month 2

Theory:

• Color harmony for the digital artist: types of color combinations, color characteristics, methods of color matching, basics of color physics
• Layer overlay modes and their meaning
• Ways of working with references

Practice:

• Step-by-step copy of color materials
• Drawing of any three materials based on a ball, cylinder and cube (three levels of task complexity to choose from)
  

Month 3

Theory:

• Introduction to concept art: goals and objectives, relations of forms, point of focus, associativity, integrity, functionality, psychology of perception
• Searching for an idea and drafting TOR
• Tone keys and their meaning

Practice:

• Concept art of props: silhouette search, sketching, color searches, lighting and shadows, material rendering
• Formalizing the final course submission

Additional lectures:withtilization, 3D-modeling in Blender, basics of sketching +payline drawing speedpoint from life, a selection of references of productions.