Drawing Skills Anyone Can Master
Time to bring out your inner artist! Drawing can feel intimidating, but with the right basics, anyone can create beautiful drawings. Try these portrait artist's tips, and get better at drawing in less than a week.
Featuring Zimou Tan, Portrait Artist
Format
Daily lessons delivered straight to your inbox, completely mobile-friendly
Duration
5 Days
Time
10-20 minutes per lesson
What you will learn
- How to use contour lines to make an image 3D
- The basics of perspective
- The difference between positive space and negative space
- 3 Different shading techniques
- How to use the pencil technique to get proportions right
Why should you take this course?
- You want spend time on a creative outlet that brings you joy and calm. It is so easy to float through another day without letting any creative juices flow. Honing a skill like drawing is a great way to wake up your brain, learn a new skill, and gain the foundation to start having more and more fun with your new creative skills.
- You have never felt confident drawing and are ready to build up your skills. This course is easy-to-follow, and costs nothing compared to formal, in-person drawing lessons. With just 5 days of instruction, you'll feel totally confident drawing free-hand.
- All you need is a pencil and paper. Drawing is the most low-maintenance creative project possible. Unlike many artistic pursuits that take lots of tools and money, this course is easy to start and needs no special materials.
Course Overview
5 Lessons
Understanding Shapes and Composition
Learn a basic understanding of shapes and composition principles, and how they can help your art.
Making Objects 3D
Learn how to build on shapes when you're drawing to give your objects more depth and realism.
Looking at Proportions
Today, we will talk about proportional relationships between objects, which can help make drawings look even more realistic.
Putting Things into Perspective
Discover how to establish perspective as you draw can help you think outside the box to show viewers the bigger picture.
Throwing Shade
You made it! Today you're going to learn how to shade like a professional artist. Now you’re ready to start bringing your drawings to life!
Meet the Expert
Zimou Tan
Professional Portrait Artist
Zimou Tan is a Professional Portrait Artist based in Pennsylvania. With over two decades of experience, Zimou specializes in portraiture and aims to capture the soul, gestures, expressions, personalities, and moods of all his subjects. He graduated from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco in 2001 with degrees in both Fine Arts and Traditional Illustration. Zimou then served as a Professor of Fine Arts at the Academy of Art College until he started his portrait business. Zimou has been featured on the front page of the Marin Independent Journal in 2013 and in “Strokes of Genius 4 – The Best of Drawing”, a book by Rachel Rubin Wolf, in 2012. He was also chosen as one of 50 artists who impacted China in 2009. Zimou’s paintings have been exhibited in the New York Portrait Society Gallery in New York City, the American Artists Professional League in New York City, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Asia Society of Arts of America in San Francisco, and the Pasadena Fine Art Museum in Pasadena.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does this course have assignments?
Yes, each lesson has at least one exercise or challenge that will help you practice your newfound skills.
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What are others saying?
Mint
Ok so I have always loved the idea of drawing but didn't know how to do it well, so I came here. This helped me learn super helpful skills like shading and perspective. Thanks for making this, wikiHow!
Jack
Easy to follow course. Easy to follow instructions. You explained everything very well, and it gave me encouragement to keep trying out drawing projects. Thank you.
Riyna
I was extremely pleased with the way this taught me how I can express myself through drawing. Not only did it teach me key skills, it has also helped me take my mind off things that stress me out. Thanks!
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