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Dynamic Mark Making / Drawing with Expression & Creativity

Drawing is not a talent. It’s a skill anyone can learn.Designed for aspiring painters, graphic designers, illustrators and artists of all types,The Art &amp ...
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Video: 1h 31m
Language: English
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Drawing is not a talent. It’s a skill anyone can learn. Designed for aspiring painters, graphic designers, illustrators and artists of all types, The Art & Science of Drawing series will teach you the foundation of art and design of all kinds: drawing.

Dynamic Mark Making is the second course in the series and will teach you how to draw one day at a time.

How you draw says just as much about you as what you draw. In this course you’ll learn to bring your drawings to life with dynamic and engaging mark making. You’ll learn to truly express yourself through drawing from the most delicate of marks to lines that jump off the page with passionate intensity.

In this course you’ll learn:

  • How to use the pencil to create a wide range of expressive and engaging lines marks.
  • How to infuse your line work with emotion that truly connects with a viewer.
  • How to draw objects that communicate tactile sensations to viewers.
  • How to make objects appear to recede in space using atmospheric perspective.

Here’s how it works: Each day you’ll watch one video lesson that will introduce an essential drawing skill, and then do the recommended practice. 

This course is overflowing with powerful insights into the drawing process and offers some of the clearest, most accessible drawing instruction available.  Many of the tools and techniques you’ll learn here are rarely taught outside of private art academies. 

DYNAMIC MARK MAKING is the second course in The Art & Science of Drawing series designed to take students from the absolute basics to advanced drawing techniques like perspective drawing and shading. If you’re a beginner, we recommend going through the entire series in the following order:

The Art & Science of Drawing:

  • BASIC SKILLS / Getting Started with Drawing 
  • DYNAMIC MARK MAKING / Drawing with Expression & Creativity
  • FORM & SPACE / 3D Drawing & Perspective 
  • MEASURING & PROPORTION / Drawing with Accuracy & Precision
  • CONTOURS / Drawing with Compelling Contours & Foreshortening:
  • SHADING FUNDAMENTALS / Drawing with Dramatic Light and Shadow
  • SHADING BEYOND THE BASICS / Shade Any Subject No Matter How Complex

The Art & Science of Figure Drawing:

  • GESTURE / An Introduction to the Art of Figure Drawing
  • VOLUME & STRUCTURE / Learn the Art of Dynamic, 3D Figure Drawing
  • SHADING / Learn to Draw the Figure in Dramatic Light & Shadow

If you’ve got some drawing experience, feel free to mix and match The Art & Science of Drawing courses to suit your personal needs as an artist!

What can you learn from this course?

LESSON: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LINE

PROJECT 1 – Make three “Ever-Changing Line” projects, just like you saw in the demonstration.

Your goal is to explore and experiment with as many different kinds of lines and works as you can.

PROJECT 2 – Selection 3-6 of the lines from your ever-changing line projects and replicate them as shown in the demonstration.

 

LESSON: THE EMOTIONAL LINE

PROJECT: Participate in the follow along project in the video lesson.

Once you’ve done the Emotional Line Project, have family or friends participate so you can see how different people make and interpret different kinds of lines.

 

LESSON: BRINGING FORM TO LIFE

PROJECT: Lightly draw the basic shapes of the teacup shown in the video before drawing dynamic and expressive marks over it.

Feel free to experiment with your line quality.  The goal isn’t to produce “good” drawings, but to expand your idea of line quality and how it can communicate ideas and emotions to your viewer that are not implicit in the subject you are drawing.

 

LESSON: THE TACTILE LINE

PROJECT: Choose two objects with opposing tactile qualities. After drawing in a light foundation use tactile lines and marks to make your drawings appear to feel like the actual objects.

A hard object can be drawn using hard, angular line quality.  A soft object can be drawing using soft, gauzy lines.  A light object can be drawn using thinner, lighter lines and a heavy object dan be drawn using thicker, darker lines.  There is no single “right” way to do this project.  Have fun experimenting!

 

LESSON: ATMOSPHERICS

PROJECT: Observe atmospheric perspective in the real world and capture it in a drawing while you’re on location.

 

BONUS CHALLENGE: SIMULATE THE EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE IN A STILL LIFE

You can get started with any drawing materials you have around the house. For a list of the recommended materials for The Art & Science of Drawing courses check out my Evolve Your Art website to see recommended pencils, drawing paper, pencil sharpener and more! 

Continue on to the third part of The Art & Science of Drawing series with FORM & SPACE / 3D Drawing & Perspective 

What you need to start the course?

There is no prerequisite, anyone can begin this course.. This course is also great for beginners without any Creativity knowledge.

Who is this course is made for?

This course is suitable for beginners.

Are there coupons or discounts for Dynamic Mark Making / Drawing with Expression & Creativity ? What is the current price?

You can enrol in this course with a Skillshare subscription that costs $8/month, but you start with a FREE 7-day trial. You can also enrol in thousands of courses on a variety of topics with your subscription, including several Creativity courses.
The average price is $5.7 of 562 Creativity courses. So this course is -100% more expensive than the average Creativity course on Skillshare.

Will I be refunded if I'm not satisfied with the Dynamic Mark Making / Drawing with Expression & Creativity course?

There is no money-back guarantee with Skillshare, but you can start with a free one-week trial to learn without risk. With the subscription, you can download classes to your tablet or phone using the Skillshare app.

Are there any financial aid for this course?

At the moment we couldn't find any available scholarship forDynamic Mark Making / Drawing with Expression & Creativity, but you can access more than 30 thousand classes for $8/month on Skillshare, including this one!

Who will teach this course? Can I trust Brent Eviston?

Brent Eviston has created 22 courses that got 23,989 reviews which are generally positive. Brent Eviston has taught 295,196 students and received a 4.7 average review out of 23,989 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Brent Eviston is an instructor that you can trust.

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Classbaze Grade®

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Freshness

9.1

Popularity

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Material

Detailed Analysis »

Drawing is not a talent. It’s a skill anyone can learn.Designed for aspiring painters
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Platform: Skillshare
Price: check current price
Video: 1h 31m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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