Drawing and Sketching for Designers (and Everyone Else!)

Drawing and Sketching for Designers (and Everyone Else!), available at $69.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 93 lectures, based on 182 reviews, and has 13895 subscribers.

You will learn about Effectively communicate visually with drawing. Drawing gesture drawings, structural drawings, product sketches, and more. Apply appropriate value (lighting and shading), texture, and line in drawings. Apply effective composition in drawings, designs, and logo designs. Apply dozens of types of mark making methods with a variety of materials (pencil, charcoal, and conté). Draw form-based products with appropriate mark making and shading. Combine various shapes and forms to produce more complicated drawings of objects and products. Draw the head and face with appropriate proportion. Draw objects and a scene in one-point perspective. This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone wanting to effectively communicate in visual form by using drawing. or Graphic designers wanting to improve their drawing skills. or Graphic designers, logo designers and others wanting to learn and apply compositional principles in designs and drawings. or Anyone who wants to learn and apply effective line work, shading, mark making, perspective, and composition in order to produce interesting and informative drawings and designs. It is particularly useful for Anyone wanting to effectively communicate in visual form by using drawing. or Graphic designers wanting to improve their drawing skills. or Graphic designers, logo designers and others wanting to learn and apply compositional principles in designs and drawings. or Anyone who wants to learn and apply effective line work, shading, mark making, perspective, and composition in order to produce interesting and informative drawings and designs.

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Summary

Title: Drawing and Sketching for Designers (and Everyone Else!)

Price: $69.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 93

Number of Published Lectures: 93

Number of Curriculum Items: 93

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 93

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Effectively communicate visually with drawing.
Drawing gesture drawings, structural drawings, product sketches, and more.
Apply appropriate value (lighting and shading), texture, and line in drawings.
Apply effective composition in drawings, designs, and logo designs.
Apply dozens of types of mark making methods with a variety of materials (pencil, charcoal, and conté).
Draw form-based products with appropriate mark making and shading.
Combine various shapes and forms to produce more complicated drawings of objects and products.
Draw the head and face with appropriate proportion.
Draw objects and a scene in one-point perspective.

Who Should Attend

Anyone wanting to effectively communicate in visual form by using drawing.
Graphic designers wanting to improve their drawing skills.
Graphic designers, logo designers and others wanting to learn and apply compositional principles in designs and drawings.
Anyone who wants to learn and apply effective line work, shading, mark making, perspective, and composition in order to produce interesting and informative drawings and designs.

Target Audiences

Anyone wanting to effectively communicate in visual form by using drawing.
Graphic designers wanting to improve their drawing skills.
Graphic designers, logo designers and others wanting to learn and apply compositional principles in designs and drawings.
Anyone who wants to learn and apply effective line work, shading, mark making, perspective, and composition in order to produce interesting and informative drawings and designs.

Would you like to learn how to effectively communicate ideas in visual form? Would you like to learn how to draw? Would you like to draw interesting and aesthetically pleasing art and designs, including products, scenes, various objects, and more?

In this course, you will learn how to draw effectively as a strong foundation for graphic design and other types of design. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to visually communicate and draw effectively.

Some graphic designers start immediately on the computer, but drawing first by hand is a common practice at many top design agencies, advertising firms, and other types of design businesses. This process is also taught at art colleges, universities, and other institutions. Graphic designers and other designers benefit from learning how to draw in order to brainstorm, sketch, visually communicate ideas, and design.

Regardless of whether you are working on a logo design, editorial design, advertising design, digital design, or other types of design, drawing as part of the design process is an established practice that can help you more effectively produce clear and beautiful designs.

In this course, you will learn about materials and how drawing can benefit designers. Then you will learn how to draw in various sections:

Mark Making Exercises – Learn many different methods of mark making in the context of drawing and design.
Gesture Drawing – Draw an organic object, a video game controller, a Holga camera, and a paintbrush using gestural drawing methods for quick drawings to capture the essence or gesture of an object or scene.
Drawing Basic Shapes Effectively – Learn various ways to draw basic shapes which can be used in line drawings and structural drawings later.
Structural Drawing – Learn how to draw a sphere, cone, cube, and cylinder, and also start to draw structure-based objects such as a vase.
Drawing Structure-Based Products – Next, use what you have learned so far by drawing structure-based objects, including a tennis ball (sphere-based), a funnel (cone-based), a makeup applicator (cylinder-based), and a GameCube console (cube-based).
Value, Lighting, and Shading – Learn how to add a lighting source, highlights, and shadows for depth and form in drawings.
Composition in Drawing – Apply effective composition in drawings and logo designs. Examples include the rule of thirds, focal point, formal subdivision, drawing an asymmetrical logo, and much more.
Product Sketches – Apply structural drawing and value practices in order to draw products sketches such as a still life and a power drill.
Drawing the Head and Face Fundamentals – Learn the basics of drawing facial proportions, for those instances where drawing people is required in designs.
Drawing in Perspective – Learn how to draw a cube, sideways cylinder, and interior space using one-point perspective. Follow along in additional exercises in two-point perspective in the included book.

Enroll today and get started learning how to draw for design!

About the Instructor:

Jonathan Simon is a fine artist, illustrator and university professor. He holds a B.F.A in illustration from Memphis College of Art and a M.F.A. in painting from the New York Academy of Art. He has studied with a variety of talented artists in both accredited programs and private apprenticeships, including Tony Ryder, author of The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, Jacob Collins and Michael Grimaldi of Water Street Atelier / The Grand Central Atelier, and Frank Porcu at the Art Students League of New York.

A studio artist for more than 26 years, Jonathan is also an experienced art educator who has held full-time faculty positions teaching intermediate- to advanced-level drawing, figure drawing, painting and illustration classes at colleges such as the New Hampshire Institute of Art. He believes in sound, proven methods, materials and approaches.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to Drawing and Sketching for Designers

Lecture 1: Course Overview

Lecture 2: Materials Part 1: Pencils and Sharpeners

Lecture 3: Materials Part 2: Erasing Tools

Lecture 4: Materials Part 3: Charcoal, Conté, and Paper

Lecture 5: Materials List Links

Lecture 6: How Drawing Can Benefit You

Lecture 7: Tips for Taking Photos of Drawings for Critique Group

Lecture 8: Support Files, Drawing Book, and Facebook Group Link

Lecture 9: Drawing for Designers Book Overview

Chapter 2: Mark Making Methods and Exercises

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Mark Making Exercises

Lecture 2: Fundamentals of Line in Drawing

Lecture 3: Mark Making Basics with Pencils and Erasers

Lecture 4: Mark Making Exercises Part 1

Lecture 5: Mark Making Exercises Part 2

Lecture 6: Mark Making Exercises Part 3

Lecture 7: Mark Making Exercises Part 4

Lecture 8: Mark Making Exercises Part 5

Lecture 9: Mark Making Exercises Part 6

Chapter 3: Gesture Drawing

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Gesture Drawing

Lecture 2: Gesture Drawing Exercise 1: Organic Object

Lecture 3: Gesture Drawing Exercise 2: Video Game Controller

Lecture 4: Gesture Drawing Exercise 3: Holga Camera

Lecture 5: Gesture Drawing Exercise 4: Paintbrush

Chapter 4: Methods for Drawing Basic Shapes Effectively

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Drawing Basic Shapes

Lecture 2: Drawing Parallel and Perpendicular Lines for Square Shapes

Lecture 3: Various Ways to Draw a Circle

Lecture 4: Drawing Triangles

Lecture 5: Drawing Rectangles and Angled Shapes

Lecture 6: Drawing an Octagon and More

Lecture 7: Combining Shapes in Drawings

Chapter 5: Structural Drawing

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Structural Drawing

Lecture 2: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Sphere

Lecture 3: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cone

Lecture 4: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cube Method 1

Lecture 5: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cube Method 2

Lecture 6: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 1

Lecture 7: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 2 – Ellipse Exercises for Cylinders

Lecture 8: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 3 – Angled Cylinders

Lecture 9: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 4 – Cylinder-Based Object Exercises

Lecture 10: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 5 – Sideways Cylinders

Lecture 11: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder-Based Vase Method 1

Lecture 12: Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder-Based Vase Method 2

Chapter 6: Drawing Structure-Based Products

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Drawing Structure-Based Products

Lecture 2: Drawing a Sphere-Based Product: Tennis Ball

Lecture 3: Drawing a Cone-Based Product: Funnel

Lecture 4: Drawing a Cylinder-Based Product: Makeup Part 1

Lecture 5: Drawing a Cylinder-Based Product: Makeup Part 2

Lecture 6: Drawing a Cube-Based Product: GameCube Console Part 1

Lecture 7: Drawing a Cube-Based Product: GameCube Console Part 2

Chapter 7: Value, Lighting, and Shading

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Value, Lighting, and Shading

Lecture 2: Introduction to Value in Drawing

Lecture 3: Lighting and Shading a Sphere

Lecture 4: Lighting and Shading a Cone

Lecture 5: Shading and Lighting a Cylinder

Lecture 6: Lighting and Shading a Cube

Chapter 8: Composition in Drawing and Logo Design

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Composition

Lecture 2: Composition Exercises Part 1: The Rule of Thirds

Lecture 3: Composition Exercises Part 2: Focal Point

Lecture 4: Composition Exercises Part 3: Using a Grid

Lecture 5: Composition Exercises Part 4: The Golden Ratio

Lecture 6: Composition Exercises Part 5: Using Scale

Lecture 7: Composition Exercises Part 6: Overlapping Elements

Lecture 8: Composition Exercises Part 7: Drawing a Symmetrical Logo

Lecture 9: Composition Exercises Part 8: Drawing an Asymmetrical Logo

Lecture 10: Composition Exercises Part 9: Drawing a Radial Logo

Lecture 11: Composition Exercises Part 10: Drawing a Rotational Logo

Lecture 12: Composition Exercises Part 11: Formal Subdivision

Lecture 13: Composition Exercises Part 12: Informal Subdivision

Lecture 14: Composition Exercises Part 13 – Directional Lines

Lecture 15: Composition Exercises Part 14 – Perspective Exercises

Chapter 9: Product Sketching

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Product Sketching

Lecture 2: Product Sketch 1: Drawing a Drill Part 1

Lecture 3: Product Sketch 1: Drawing a Drill Part 2

Lecture 4: Product Sketch 1: Drawing a Drill Part 3

Lecture 5: Product Sketch 1: Drawing a Drill Part 4

Lecture 6: Product Sketch 2: Drawing a Still Life of an Olive Oil Bottle and Banana Part 1

Lecture 7: Product Sketch 2: Drawing a Still Life of an Olive Oil Bottle and Banana Part 2

Lecture 8: Product Sketch 2: Drawing a Still Life of an Olive Oil Bottle and Banana Part 3

Chapter 10: Drawing the Head and Face Fundamentals

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Drawing the Head and Face Fundamentals

Lecture 2: Drawing the Face and Head Fundamentals Part 1

Lecture 3: Drawing the Face and Head Fundamentals Part 2

Lecture 4: Drawing the Face and Head Fundamentals Part 3

Lecture 5: Drawing the Face and Head Fundamentals Part 4

Chapter 11: Drawing in Perspective

Lecture 1: Section Introduction: Drawing in Perspective

Lecture 2: Drawing a Cube in Perspective Part 1: Bird's-Eye View

Lecture 3: Drawing a Cube in Perspective Part 2: Eye Level View

Lecture 4: Drawing a Cube in Perspective Part 3: Worm's-Eye View

Lecture 5: Drawing a Cube in Perspective Part 4: Turned Cube

Lecture 6: Drawing a Sideways Cylinder in Perspective

Instructors

Chad Neuman, Ph.D.
Professor / Graphic Designer / Photographer 20+ yrs exp.
Jonathan Simon, BFA, MFA
Professional Artist, Illustrator, Professor 28+ yrs exp.

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 1 votes
2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 18 votes
4 stars: 47 votes
5 stars: 113 votes

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