Master of Drawing

Sketching Express is a short but very intense course that gives the basic technical skills of quick line sketching.

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.

Drawing Middle – on it we consolidate the skills of volumetric construction, in-depth study of perspective, light and shadow elaboration of forms, plasticity in the inorganic, plant and animal worlds.

Drawing High – working with organic plasticity, draping, in-depth study of concepts such as rhythm, composition and dynamics in drawing.

Week 1

• Graphical reception exercises
• Analytical sketches of objects in frontal view (lock/key/sword/shield/leaf)

Week 2

• Volumetric geometric bodies in perspective (cube, ball, cylinder and derived forms)
• Complex compound forms (combining forms)

Week 3

• Sketches of objects from everyday life (mugs, containers, books, light bulbs, watering cans, etc.)

Week 4

• Organic forms based on fruits and vegetables
• Organic molds based on ribbon molds

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)

Month 1

Theory:

• Basics of perspective
• Light and shadow
• Painting techniques
• Plasticity in the inorganic world, smoothing on geometry (using industrial design as an example)
• Complex construction. camera

Practice:

• Exercise warm-ups on linework and textures
• Cuts on a cube, sphere, cylinder
• Smoothing on simple and complex geometry of real objects (household appliances, office supplies)
• Camera: projections, construction, final rendering

Month 2

Theory:

• Plasticity in animal and plant life
• Structural details of fish, basic geometry
• Composition, movement, counterforms, working with sketches
• Learning how to work with texture
• Silhouette work
• Beetle structure, study of proportions

Practice:

• Fish parts disassembly, volume disassembly
• Working with textures
• Creation of several preparatory sketches
• Final rendering of the fish
• Beetle projections, sketching.

Month 3

Theory:

• Continued study of beetle design
• The structure of the beetle parts, the textures
• Construction, volume on the example of beetle parts
• Working with perspective

Practice:

• Beetle parts sketches
• Sketches with perspective angles of the beetle
• A bug dummy
• Final work, finalizing the image

Bonus lecture: pworking with the modular grid in drawing

Month 1

Theory:

• Perspective on multiple vanishing points
• The beauty of destruction: why viewers are attracted to things with history
• Types of fabrics (hard, soft, drapey, burlap, shiny, etc.)
• Draping in traditional illustration, printmaking, CG, game design, comics
  
• Accessory Design

Practice:

• Stroke exercises
• Flat deformed shapes (curved sheet)
• Cube deformation (collapsed, disassembled cube)
• Stake jar deformation, object mesh construction
• Analyzing and drawing different types of fabric folds
• Drapery sketches
• A copy of the accessory sketches
• Tambnails to the backpack (2-3 pieces)

Optional assignment for those who have time for everything: asplit balloon in various degrees of destruction.

Month 2

Theory:

• Plastics of natural forms (movement, silhouette, rhythm)
• Plastic structural forms of trees of different species (deciduous, coniferous, tropical, fantasy)
• Trees in the works of artists

Practice:

• Continued work with the backpack concept. Front and side projection
• Image of decorative elements (buckles, buttons, chevrons, badges, ropes, lanyards)
• Drawing of a backpack in three-quarter view with modeling of shape and details
• Copies of tree sketches
• Tree fragments (chips, bark, branch attachment points)
• Tree silhouettes

Month 3

Theory:

• Features of animal skulls: structure
• Stylization and design of skulls

Practice:

• Tambneils of skulls
• Modeling of skull parts (cheekbones, eye sockets, nasal openings, jaws, teeth, horns, beaks)
• Sketches of animal skulls
• Finalization of final projects