Drawing Nature - Autumn Edition

What you'll learn
Drawing detailed autumn objects
Sketching with a pen
Start with learning to draw simple shapes & objects like acorns & chestnuts and eventually move on to complete scenes
Capture what you observe
How to construct leaves, toadstools, branches and much more
Detailing and basic shading
Pen techniques
Requirements
No prior experience needed at all
A pen, pencil and paper (ruler is handy too)
To gain the most out of the art class, check the material list
Description
Drawing Nature - Autumn EditionNature is such a big source of inspiration for artists. The beauty of creation is simply stunning! No wonder it brings such joy to be able to capture some of this beauty on paper!This time we are going to discover how to draw some simple basic shapes and go through the process of turning them into beautiful (3D) autumn items. Completing this Art Class with a stunning, detailed, inked autumn scene!"No, no, no.....!" This whole process is not going to be really hard and complicated. And it won't take hours and hours to complete. Now that might be the case when you get lost in all the details and are not quite sure how to move forward from there.But there is a proven way to escape (even avoid!) the trap of making the drawing process overcomplicated. In this Art Class. I will be sharing the secrets I found to remove the intimidation from making impressive, detailed, inked art works. Even if you have no drawing experience at al...!My name is Benjamin Aeilkema and I'm an illustrator and Artist from The Netherlands. I love creating Artworks with all kinds of materials. As many, many other artists, I also find great joy in capturing the beauty of nature in artworks. There is just something very special about it!But I can also identify with the challenges and struggles many people have shared with me over the past few years. These very same issues I've been dealing with in my own works. It can be really frustrating to get stuck along the way and not knowing how to proceed, or how to improve the way you're going about things.Nevertheless, I somehow was convinced that I could discover the right techniques to conquer these challenges. And to develop a method that would provide answers and solutions.You might be surprised to hear that the key I found has everything to do with the way you go about starting a detailed autumn drawing. The key is actually in the way you OBSERVE the item and the choices you make about which parts to focus on.The secret to success is in training your eye & brain to only observe the APPROPRIATE details at the RIGHT moment of your drawing process. Eliminating everything else enables you to capture exactly what you need at every step along the way.My method is based upon 3 distinguished steps:Capture the complicated item in the simplicity of its basic shapeFocus on the RIGHT details and master translating these to your drawingFinish it with convincing shading (done in an relative easy way)In this Art Class you will discover the key to a transformation of your thinking pattern in where to start and where to end. You will find a new revolutionizing workflow as your eye & brain are trained to make the right choices along the way. You will discover the progression of building beauty enhancing detail upon detail. Ending up with amazing results!Of course you will also be given the necessary tools to:train your muscle memory in drawing the right shapesdevelop simple construction drawings as your springboard to freehand drawinggive compositions your own personal touchWe will be starting out with mastering to draw all the basic shapes needed for that beautiful end project, Once you're comfortable with the pencil, we'll move on to the pen. We will be practicing drawing, hatching, shading: an acorn, chestnut, pinecone, trees, bark, branches, leaves, fungus and a toadstool.No worries, I will break some of these complicated items down into simple to follow along steps for you. You will be amazed at what you can create!Enrolling in this Art Class will give you 11 video lessons with clear instructions and examples. In these videos, I will take you by the hand in my process of drawing all kinds of detailed autumn items. You will greatly benefit from my decades long experience as an instructor and teacher.My easy to follow teaching method will help you to understand exactly how to get from point A to point B. The in-depth demos make even the more complicated matters easy to understand and apply.The skill level advancing assignments are all truly focused on helping you grow. They're fun to do, allowing you to keep on discovering new potentials. You will be equipped to explore so many wonderful ways to make amazing autumn drawings ALL ON YOUR OWN!There's more......Additional PDF's: Great Time Savers in PDF formatTo help you save time, I'm providing you with a handy book of notes. Once you've completed an assignment, there's no need to re-watch the video lesson. Instead, all of my finished works are in this booklet. Just find the lesson you're on and compare your work to the finished assignment in the book. Again, this will save you time and allow you to keep on going.That's not all though,I've also included booklets with photo references. In these booklets you'll find photos of all the autumn items I've used in the lessons and even some extra ones for more practice. This addition will help you to work in any season. While I encourage you to get your own reference material, I understand that's not always possible. So with these booklets you have plenty of reference material to get you started and keep you drawing.Enroll now and you will be amazed at what you can create! See you inside!
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Support, Community and Feedback
Section 2: Materials
Lecture 3 Materials
Lecture 4 Material List
Lecture 5 Book of Notes and References
Section 3: The Basics
Lecture 6 Before you start.....
Lecture 7 Basics Part 1
Lecture 8 Basics Part 2
Lecture 9 Basics Acorn and Chestnut Part 1
Lecture 10 Basics Acorn and Chestnut Part 2
Lecture 11 Basics Acorn and Chestnut Part 3
Section 4: Drawing Pinecones
Lecture 12 Pinecones Part 1
Lecture 13 Pen technique: Random Lines
Lecture 14 Pinecones Part 2
Section 5: Leaves
Lecture 15 Leaves Part 1
Lecture 16 Leaves Part 2
Section 6: Fungus, toadstool, mushroom or whatever you may call them
Lecture 17 Toadstool Part 1
Lecture 18 Toadstool Part 2
Lecture 19 Fungus Part 1
Lecture 20 Fungus Part 2
Section 7: Branches and barks
Lecture 21 Drawing Bark
Lecture 22 Drawing a Branch
Section 8: The Final Project
Lecture 23 Final Project Part 1
Lecture 24 Final Project Part 2
Lecture 25 Final Project Part 3
Lecture 26 Final Project Part 4
Section 9: Final Words.....
Lecture 27 Watch only when really done :-)
Lecture 28 Bonus Lecture
Artists and non-artists at any level,Beginning artists,Intermediate artists,Anyone with a desire to capture nature on paper,The lessons are presented with such simplicity and clarity that anyone can follow and do them, from beginner to advanced

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