[Carolina]

Hmm..I just realized you posted this quite some time ago. How are you enjoying your courses thus far?

[Carolina]

In a nutshell…Sheldon’s Stress Free Sketching is a nice intro, as well as the Beginners series course ( actually called the Beginning Drawing course, others have mentioned) to start with. They have very useful, fundamental information. (especially about basic shapes- minor-major keys – tonal values – etc).

Now, what I do for my “personalized curriculum” I won’t be much help with because I tend to intuitively jump from course to course based on what I feel I need to work on. I started with a Composition course, but I was too ambitious and it was too over my head. So went to Sheldon’s Stress Free Sketching, which was a great great intro. Finished that, and went into Dynamic Gesture with Glenn. I enjoyed it, completed only part of it.  I felt I needed to understand my anatomy/proportions better. So I started with an anatomy course with Glenn…did it halfway through at which point I decided I needed to take a break from it as it was a bit difficult to follow and went back the Beginner’s Series course – I completed that. Had some very useful information Now I started the Russian Academic Approach to Drawing (on the Asaro Planes of the Head part) – really really enjoying this course. If I feel I need a bit of a break, I have Color Theory lined up. I’ll loop back to Glen’s Gesture and Anatomy courses a bit later, as well as the Composition course. So, spending some time in one course, then going to another for a more diverse experience. But I’ll be completing them all eventually. And have even more lined up for the future (like Renaissance Head Drawing, Constructive Figure Drawing (has hands!), Intro to Painting, Portrait in Watercolor, Watercolor/Gouache Sketchbook, Portrait Painting for Beginners, Perspective Crash Course….and more).

[Carolina]

The objects are attached right under the video in a tab titled: References. Same tab has: Lessons-Discussion-Transcript -(References)

[Carolina]

So far great! Great explanation of Light and Shadow in a way that is easy to remember all the distinctions.

[Carolina]

I agree with you guys. There is a wealth of knowledge here obviously but if I were in an actual class I would walk out as I would not get much out of it. It’s far too fast given the amount of info relayed and the voice is so soothing I want to fall asleep. The upside to it being online, I can pause many times to take proper notes and follow the drawings. I will stick to the end though since it does have a lot of useful information that is very helpful.

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