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Setting Up A Still Life with Bill Perkins, George Pratt, Heather Lenefsky

Setting Up A Still Life
Create Your Still Life Compositions Use value, shape and texture to design your still life compositions

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Instructor
Bill Perkins, George Pratt, Heather Lenefsky
Subjects
Drawing
Topics
Composition, Still life
Mediums
Brush Pen, Marker
Duration
1h 38m 39s

In this lesson, you will learn how to set up a still life with master designer Bill Perkins; he will teach you how lighting and local value play a significant role in your still life. Then, instructor Heather Lenefsky will demonstrate how to develop thumbnails of different compositions for your still life drawings.

This lesson belongs to the course Drawing Foundations I. This course is designed to empower new students with a structured approach to learning how to draw. Join instructors Steve Huston, Chris Legaspi, Heather Lenefsky, Catherine Bobkoski,  Bill Perkins, Joshua Jacobo, and Mark Westermoe as you learn the fundamentals of perspective, rendering, and composition. After completing this course, you will develop a solid foundation in drawing.

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