Learn how to draw amazing, colorful, and beautiful art, using colored pencils! In this colored pencils course, you will learn all about materials, mark making techniques, color theory, value and lighting, form and composition, as well as principles and practices of effective colored pencil drawing.
By the time you have completed this colored pencils masterclass, you will have produced various colorful drawings that you can add to your portfolio or simply enjoy, including a water droplet, a globe, a still life drawing of tomatoes, a frog, a character design from imagination, a landscape, and a portrait.
This course is set up so that the lessons build upon each other, and there is something new to learn in each project. Besides the art projects, there are special sections on mark making and materials (with exercises), color theory (with exercises), and transferring methods (with exercises).
The sections and projects in this course include:
Section 1, Introduction – Learn how to be successful in this course and complete a “quick win” exercise to draw an accurate water droplet.
Section 2, Mark Making Methods and Materials – Follow along and try different mark making techniques after learning all about required and optional materials (any set of colored pencils will work, but we include three different sets as examples).
Section 3, Drawing a Globe Project – Learn about lighting, value, shadow, and form while drawing a globe.
Section 4, Transferring Methods – Learn various ways to trace and transfer from a reference photo or drawing for a helpful foundation.
Section 5, Drawing a Still Life – Use various colors to draw an interesting still life of tomatoes, and use the optional Gamsol for blending and unifying for a softer appearance.
Section 6, Color Theory – Learn about various ways colors can be used in colored pencil drawings, through lectures and follow-along exercises.
Section 7, Drawing a Frog – Learn how to draw a colorful frog and slightly adjust the scene compared to the photo reference.
Section 8, Drawing a Character Design – Draw a character from imagination or follow along and draw from the reference. Instead of Gamsol, we will use a burnisher to help lay down the tooth of the paper and produce a more unified look.
Section 9, Drawing a Landscape – Draw an interesting landscape scene and learn how to produce effective, subtle gradients as well as layering and blending methods.
Section 10, Drawing a Portrait – Layer up colors to produce a realistic and beautiful portrait drawing. This section begins with exercises to learn how to produce different skin tones.
Besides about 25 hours of helpful video instruction and demonstration, this course also includes all the photo reference support files and a booklet PDF complete with worksheets to follow along with, including mark making worksheets, art project worksheets, and color theory worksheets. The course also comes with exclusive access to our Facebook group for peer critique, instructor feedback, and community!
This course was produced by Chad Neuman, Ph.D., a popular online instructor, professor, and designer, and the instructor is Jonathan Simon, MFA, a renowned fine artist and illustrator. We’ll see you in the course! -Jonathan and Chad
✓ Draw a water droplet and globe with realistic depth, form, light, and shadow.
✓ Draw a colorful still life of tomatoes.
✓ Draw a colorful frog using colored pencils and various blending methods.
✓ Draw a character design from imagination using colored pencils.
✓ Draw a colorful landscape / seascape using colored pencils.
✓ Draw a representational, creative, and artistic portrait using colored pencils.
✓ Portray realistic depth, light, form, and shadow in colored pencil drawings.
✓ Learn a variety of materials, mark making methods, as well as blending and erasing methods in colored pencil drawing.
✓ Learn and apply a variety of transfer methods in drawing.
✓ Learn and apply color theory in exercises and drawing projects.
✓ Draw various skin tones using a variety of colored pencils.
• Anyone who want to produce amazing, fun, and beautiful colored pencil drawings
• Artists or designers new to colored pencils or those who want to learn more techniques, methods, and materials.
• People who want to effectively draw still life, animals, landscapes, portraits, and more using colored pencils.
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I love seeing students succeed in their designs, photos, productions, artistic work, and careers.
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I’m passionate about communication, writing, art, and design education, and I’m currently a full-time professor of communication and digital media. I’ve developed curriculum and taught classes on design, photography, and writing for over a decade. My university students have become full-time, award-winning photographers, web designers, creative specialists, reporters, and layout designers. And now, you can learn from me as well!
Get started by enrolling in my courses, learning new skills and knowledge, and asking me questions in the courses and forums.
My Three-Part Qualifications to Teach You (Professional Experience, Education, and Experience Teaching):
By combining my professional in-the-field experience (both full-time and freelance), formal education, and experience teaching these topics, I’ve been able to produce top-notch courses that maximize learning and enable students to become better graphic designers, logo designers, photo editors, artists, and digital media producers.
Real World, Professional Experience:
I’ve worked as Webmaster and Advertising Designer at a regional newspaper (The News Chief), Internet Development Director at an award-winning advertising design firm, Technology Librarian at a city library system, and Managing Editor at two international graphic design magazines at Kelby Media Group. I’ve also written for print and online publications and designed websites and other promotional design work for clients on an on-going basis for the past 20 years.
Education:
Besides relevant marketplace experience, I also have a B.A. in Communication from Southeastern University, an M.A. in Journalism and Media Studies from the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, and a Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University. My Ph.D. dissertation focuses on the mythic branding of Apple’s Macintosh/Mac in their primary commercial campaigns (1984, Think Different, Switch/Real People, and Get a Mac). Example graduate courses such as Creative Approaches to Digital Media and Visual Storytelling have helped me when developing my own courses.
Experience Teaching:
Teaching these topics in the classroom and online has helped me figure out the best ways to explain concepts and guide students in the designs and productions. Besides being a full-time professor, I’ve developed curriculum and taught design, photography, and digital media courses for years at the university level for various schools in Florida, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Sorrento (Italy).
Courses:
I’m the founder of Good Creative Academy, the premiere online school for learning and creating. If you’re looking to learn more about graphic design, photo retouching, visual art, Adobe software, and digital media production, you have arrived at the right place.
Fun tech-related facts about me:
I taught myself QBasic when I was 13, and later used that programming language to write a program that simulated the DOS prompt, to fool my high school graphic design teacher into thinking the computers had been hacked.
I used web banner advertising on my websites in high school and during my freshman year of college, which brought in about $750 a month in income.
