Who teaches at Skills Up School and what is their experience?

All curators teaching at Skills Up have an art education and work experience in well-known companies; they are game developers, illustrators, 2D, 3D artists in various fields. They also regularly undergo additional training and often become students of courses themselves — this allows not only to improve skills, but also to see the program and the learning process from the inside.

What courses are suitable for a beginner?

User: All express courses, all Basic level courses. If you need additional consultation, write to our managers, and they will help you choose a course according to your skills.

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It all depends on you — on your diligence, willingness to improve skills, to develop. We, for our part, do everything possible to get employers to notice our students: We build training programs taking into account current trends in artistic professions; We invite representatives of companies and studios to the defense of final works; We help students create a high-quality portfolio; We publish vacancies from our friends in the student chat; We invite representatives of the CG industry with lectures, including on how to find work in the current time.

Minimum hardware requirements for 3D graphics

User: Processor: Core i7-6700 or Ryzen 5 1600. Video card: Geforce GTX 1060 6GB or Radeon RX 580 8GB or Arc A380. Ram: 16gb

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Figure Basic

Name: Figure Basic
Price: 9660 RUB
Availability: InStock

The course is based on a time-tested classical model of teaching applied drawing, but taking into account modern realities and in-demand areas such as

from 8 weeks

Beginner

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Композиционный скетчинг + 3 videos

About the Course

The course is based on a time-tested classical model of teaching applied drawing, but taking into account modern realities and in-demand areas such as game development, animation, and industrial design. You will not only learn how to draw, but also understand how to use these skills in current creative industries. After just a few lessons, you will start creating realistic and well-structured images, even if you have never picked up a pencil before. This course is an ideal start for those who dream of bringing their creative ideas to life and get a base that will be useful for further development in any field of art.

What You Will Learn

To use graphic techniques and drawing techniques

To see and understand volume, chiaroscuro

To build a natural harmonious composition

To work with perspective

To draw objects in a frontal view and perspective

To draw rotation bodies, complex objects and objects with plastic forms

How the Learning Works

Watch the lecture and complete the assignment

Get feedback from instructor and make revisions

Gain knowledge and build your portfolio

Who Is This Course For

To someone who has never held a pencil/stylus in their hands but dreams of learning to draw

Working in the CG industry and wanting to improve their basics

Entering an art university

Course Instructors

1/2

16 courses

Anastasiya Patrina

2D artist (illustrator)

Instructor works

20 courses

Drawing courses

Azat Nurgaleev

Artist, founder and ideologist of Skills Up School

Instructor works

Student Works

1/5

What Students Say

1/6

Анна Иванова

Егоренков Дмитрий

Юлия Некрасова

Христина Таймухина

Иван Скрынников

Юлия Феоктистова

Мария Докучаева

Анна Кузнецова

Юлия Кардонова

Григорий Капица

Черепанов Никита

Анна Иванова

Егоренков Дмитрий

Course Program

Theory

•Fundamentals of Academic drawing
•Working with a pencil
•Working in Photoshop/Procreate
•Proportions of the object
•Line: accents, relaxation
•Graphic reception
•Perspective
•Building on 3 points

Practice

•Texture exercises
•Analytical sketches of objects from a frontal perspective: key, decoration, weapon
•Drawing three-dimensional geometric bodies: cube, insets, chamfers
•Drawing bodies of rotation: cylinder, ball, combining shapes
•Chest Projections