Drawing Basics - Cleo Papanikolas (creativelive.com)

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https://www.creativelive.com/class/drawing-basics-cleo-papanikolas

In this course she starts off with the class tracing an object from their desk on a blank piece of paper.  They then make adjustments to the object that was just traced.

She indicated that many have a tendency to want to go shopping before they start on sketches to get the perfect materials.  To this she replied, "Start sketching before you go shopping."

Material you should have: any paper, standard pencil, and a dust brush (chip brush or other) to remove particulates.

The class moved onto tracing a collection scissors.  Then clean up the collection with different line quality.  The classes definition of line quality is: how the line is drawn such as solid vs not solid, clean vs shaggy, and thickness of the line.

The class moved onto how to shade an object with shadows.
Shading categories: hatch, crosshatch, stipple (dots), blend, edge, scumble/contour, lines, eraser

Then there comes the different types of pencils, paper, erasers, and other art materials.  She would advise sharping your pencils often, so you can take a step back from your drawing and reflect on the image.  With this information she wanted people to draw spoon using different hardness of pencils.

The class finishes off with drawing different trophies, using measurements to draw them or iPad as a light box to trace them.

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