FREE Online Drawing Course!

This free course helps you build real drawing skills through quick, fun exercises that fit into even the busiest schedule. Each activity has levels from beginner to pro, so you can improve no matter where you start.

All you need is a small sketchbook, a pen, and your phone. With exercises you can do in just a few minutes, you’ll learn to draw with confidence — anywhere, anytime, and at your own pace.

On this website, you will find many unique one-of-a-kind resources specifically designed to help you practice drawing. In this course, I’ll give a grand overview of what is there and how you can use it to improve your drawing skills.

 

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Introduction

This course is designed to lead you through the different types of drawing exercises you can do using the resources on this website. Each practice session itself goes from beginner to advanced, and each practice session is self-contained so that you can jump in at the drawing exercise you fancy at the level you are at.

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Practice Dexterity

In this section, we will focus on our ability to draw lines accurately and with intent.

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Practice Drawing From Observation

Observation is the first thing you have to focus on when learning to draw. Your hand is accurate enough to write, so it is precise enough to draw. And if you can read, your eyes work well enough. From there on, it’s all about what happens in your brain. Observation happens in your brain.

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Practice Memory Drawing

I came upon this exercise while researching how Kim Jung Gi practiced. If you don’t know Kim Jung Gi, he did these life drawing sessions where he drew realistic scenes from imagination. It was a fantastic sight. He drew very quickly and very precisely, and without any pencil underdrawing.

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Practice Drawing Primitive 3D Forms

This practice session will be about moving into three dimensions.

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Practice 3D Form Manipulation

We practiced primitive 3D forms in an earlier chapter. These are functional building blocks for constructing more complex three-dimensional forms. But they become even more powerful if you allow yourself to manipulate the forms further, and that is what this practice session is about.

 

More To Come

New chapters are still being added to this course.

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The chapters currently being written are:

Practice Complex 3D Forms

This chapter is still being created. The topics will include:

  1. Breaking down objects from photo reference into simpler forms.
  2. Breaking down objects around you into simpler forms.
  3. Manipulating sizes of 3D Forms.
  4. Manikins from simpler forms.
  5. Objects inside boxes from observation.
  6. Objects inside boxes from memory.
  7. Imaginary objects inside boxes.

Practice Puzzles

This chapter is still being created. The topics will include:

  1. A sampler of 3D puzzles where they are blobs of color and you need to mak it into something.
  2. Static models: only bounding box, rotate, draw rotated.

Practice Gesture Drawing

  1. Tips on how to do gesture drawing.
  2. Gesture drawing from reference photos.
  3. Rotate gesture poses.
  4. Imagined gesture poses.
  5. Gesture to manikin to figure.
  6. Giving inanimate objects gesture.

Practice Composition

This chapter is still being created. The topics will include:

  1. Focal points.
  2. Leading the eye through a composition.
  3. Contrast
  4. Repetition
  5. Alignment
  6. Proximity
  7. Visual storytelling.

Practice Anatomy

Practice Heads

Practice Hands

Practice Folds

And after that, probably more!

In the meantime, also check out the rich trove of resources on the rest of the website here:

 
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The Morning Sketches APP

It is a good idea to first go through this course to get acquainted with all the exercise categories and resources from this website. After you’ve gone through the course, the Morning Sketches APP is a convenient place where you can continue with all the exercises that were explained in this course.

You can find it here:

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Morning Sketches APP

This is for anyone who wants to improve their drawing skills and build their visual library. Practice drawing every day.
Never be without a reference image to draw from. Hundreds of images are ready to be drawn. There is no need to choose an image; a sophisticated scheduler chooses one for you. Start the day with a drawing warm-up to improve pen(cil) control.
Practice drawing 3D models designed for artists. Practice drawing gestures and breaking down a reference to simplified forms. Master drawing objects rotated from imagination.
Check it out