Pencil Drawing Made easy Overview
Creator: Nolan Clark
Price: $47
Official site: HERE
60 days money-back guarantee.
Overall rating: 4.8 stars out of 5
Recommendation: YES
What you will learn?
- Shading Techniques
- Creating Texture
- Creating Depth
- Negative Drawing
- Drawing Reflective Objects
Recommended: How to Draw a Person
About the Creator.
Nolan Clark is the founder of learning to draw like a master artist, has been teaching artists to draw and paint since 2000 in his studio in South Africa. In 2008 he immigrated to New Zealand and took his teaching online. He has been able to teach over 3 million people to draw and paint. He specializes in taking beginner artists and teaching them how to draw and paint realistically.
Summary of The Classes and Lessons taught
- Lesson 1- Introduction
- Lesson 2- Shading techniques
- Lesson 3- Creating Texture
- Lesson 4- Creating depth
- Lesson 5- Negative Drawing
- Lesson 6- Reflective Objects
- Lesson 7- Realistic Eyes
- Lesson 8- Realistic Noses
- Lesson 9- Realistic Mouths
- Lesson 10- Realistic Ears
- Lesson 11- Cheeks, Chins, Foreheads and Necks
- Lesson 12- Realistic Hair
- Lesson 13- Beards and Moustache
It is a pencil drawing course that specializes in taking beginners and teaching them how to draw in a realistic style. The course itself is an online video, so you can access it from anywhere in the world – the videos worked perfectly on my tablet and phone.
Each class is two hours long so you can even draw with which watching the video, nothing is left to the imagination. The course starts off by showing you all the equipment you need and the basic strokes. Even in this video, I picked up a cool tip for erasing.
What I like is that each lesson builds on the previous so you are never thrown into the deep. Each class has its own concept or technique that you need to master, for example, in the second class you learn how to spot the different tonal values.
In this class, Nolan (the instructor) uses different styrofoam objects to show you the light affects the tonal values. The way he explains it makes it so easy to understand, like theory being explained in a practical way.
With each class, you get a downloadable template that you can print out and use to transfer to your drawing paper. You then also get a high-quality photo of the reference and the final drawing. They are laid out in the pdf in such a way that when you print it out, each is exactly the same size. This makes it easy to judge sizes while drawing.
In each class, you complete a drawing project. Like in the second class you draw a realistic spoon. At the beginning of class, I thought it was going to be difficult, but after watching the explanations at the start of the class and the practical demo, it turned out to be quite easy.
The next four lessons are also still-life drawings. There is an onion and garlic still life, transparent wine glass, rose, and an apple drawing.
In each of these, you learn all about creating texture and depth in your drawings as well as drawing negatively and how to draw reflective objects.
From there you start drawing portraits. Nolan shows you how to draw all the major features like the eyes and mouth. What I liked was that he shows you what to look out for with each one. Once you have completed say the ear class, you will be able to draw any ear and not just the one from the class itself.
What really makes this course stand out from the rest is that it goes much deeper than any of the other courses I have seen. There are even classes on how to draw material textures and hands.
Recommended: Draw Realistic Eyes
Pros
- Step by step course
- 13 lessons about 26 hours long.
- You will learn business tips to market your drawings
- Easy for beginners
- Affordable.
- Money back guarantee.
- Really delivers as promised.
Cons
- Only available on the official site
- You need to practice and stay commited
- can only be accessed online.
We would encourage you to get the course as many have used it and worked for them. You will learn how to draw real objects that you can sell online or as a home business side hustle.
Pencil drawing is popular on Youtube so you can share your drawings there and make some money with the Youtube partner program or even sponsorhips.
Cheers.