Mini Sketchbook and Daily Practice Exercise

A fun little project to help with your perception and daily practice. This is a great one to do with kids, but very helpful for the mature artists too!

Element of Design: Pattern and Texture

This video is about the Elements of Design, Pattern and Texture and how they affect our visual senses. You will learn about what a pattern is, pattern tessellation, ways pattern can be used in a design, how texture affects your tactile senses, and introduces the mighty VERISIMILITUDE!

Here is a one sheet handout you can use in your class or as a study guide!

Massing the Figure

 This video explains how to apply massing to figure drawing so you can easily analyze and record the light and shadow on your drawing.  It also introduces my favorite exercise, Massing Gestures!!!!

Parts of the Skeleton and Boney Landmarks

 This video names the parts of the skeleton the artist should know, and then explains how to locate them on the surface so you can have X-Ray vision and create structurally sound figure drawings!

How to Sharpen and Hold a Drawing Pencil

 I take you step by step through the process of tuning your drawing instrument to get the proper notes, and then how to hold it to have control over the marks you make.

2D Design on Drawsh Studio

 These videos introduce the concept of design, space, point, line, and shape.  These are the most basic elements and very important to composing our work.

The Art Knight Rises (ft. Knight Zhang) - Draftsmen S2E21

Check out this Draftsmen Podcast of Knight Zhang!  I started teaching Knight when she was 7 years old, im very proud of What Knight accomplished and totally unsurprised by her success!