Learn To Draw And Paint Realistic Art

You will learn the essential fundamentals needed to make real progress. In drawing, you will cover:

The basic gestures: you will learn how to use the right materials without overspending, how to hold your pencil correctly and draw clean lines, break down any subject into simple shapes, create precise contours, understand how light and shadow work before applying quality shading, and achieve accurate proportions using different techniques.
Practical exercises: you will complete various exercises to develop your artistic eye.
The creation of several final artworks to put these fundamentals into practice through : drawing a classic still life composition, creating a drapery drawing, sketching two pears, as well as drawing a rose and a hamburger.

And in painting, you will cover:

The basic gestures: you will learn how to use the right materials without overspending, how to hold your brush correctly and apply paint properly, create smooth blends, paint a flat background, clean your brushes correctly, create your own medium, use liquin, sign your canvas, and varnish your artwork.
Mastering color: you will learn how to mix any color from a limited palette, how to create strong and accurate colors, how to darken or lighten a color, how to create black, and how to mix realistic skin tones.
Practical exercises: painting a sphere to create volume, painting an object using only two colors to understand the importance of values, painting an apple using a limited number of brushstrokes, painting a broken amphora to develop your artistic eye, painting an object upside down to detach from preconceived representations, painting a blurred landscape, painting drapery to learn realistic rendering, and painting a ribbon to learn how to work with fine details.
The creation of a first complete artwork to put all of this into practice.

This painting and drawing course guides you step by step through the creation of several complete portraits, from the initial construction to the final touches. In painting, you will create:

• a portrait using a color filter to work on color transitions
• the painting of an eye in black and white
• the painting of an eye in color
• the painting of a nose
• the painting of a mouth
• a specific study focused on skin texture
• a portrait of the statue of David
• a complete painted portrait of a white man facing forward
• a complete painted portrait of a white woman in profile
• a complete painted portrait of a dark-skinned boy
• a complete painted portrait of a dark-skinned woman facing forward
• the painting of an elderly person’s eye

And in drawing, you will work on:

• a complete portrait of a man seen from the front
• a complete portrait of a woman seen from the front
• drawings of the eye seen from the front, in profile, three-quarter view, and closed
• drawings of the mouth closed, wide open, and smiling
• drawings of the nose seen from the front, in profile, three-quarter view, and twisted
• drawings of the ear seen from the front and in profile
• drawings of different types of hair: long and straight, wavy, very short, and brush-cut
• the study of facial proportions using the Loomis method
• the drawing of an elderly person’s eye
• a portrait of a dark-skinned person
• the study of a complex hairstyle

This painting course teaches you to paint a variety of landscapes by working on all the elements that compose them. You will paint:

• a cloudy sky
• a leafy, scattered tree
• a cypress tree for compact foliage
• a forest in fog 
• a field with distant woods
• a rough sea
• a calm sea 
• a snowy mountain
• a sunset over a distant sea
• a final landscape combining a mountain, a forest, a lake, and a field of flowers

This animal drawing and painting course guides you through the representation of many species by working on the diversity of shapes, volumes, and textures. You will paint :

• a specific exercise to work on long fur
• a cat
• a dog
• a horse 
• a lion 
• a tiger 
• a parrot 
• an elephant 
• a hummingbird

In drawing, you will:

• learn how to draw any species using simple shapes

• learn how to create realistic shading through the study of a rhinoceros

• learn how to draw different textures: a cat’s fur, a snake’s scales, a giraffe’s spots, an elephant’s wrinkled skin, a sheep’s wool, and a rooster’s feathers

• complete a full drawing of a seated dog

• create a full drawing of a majestic horse

• create a complete drawing of a powerful eagle

• draw a bear

• apply the grid technique through the drawing of a Labrador

• work on long fur and stripes with the drawing of a tiger

This course deepens the art of painting the human body with targeted exercises and complete body paintings. You will paint:

• a body using a filter to study transitions
• a leg
• a back
• a hand
• a chest
• the entire body of a woman seen from the back to apply everything previously learned
• the complete body of a muscular man to work on volume and musculature
• a seated woman to work on the body from another angle
• Michelangelo’s David statue in its entirety to conclude the course and learn how to work on a larger scale and different proportions

And in drawing, you will create:

• studies of the human body using simple shapes

• a study of human body proportions

• a focused study on drawing the hand

• a focused study on drawing the back

• a focused study on drawing the breast

• a drawing of a nude woman seen from the back

• a drawing of the statue of David

In this course, you will learn to paint a wide variety of objects and materials in order to master realism and precision. You will paint:

• a glass to work on transparency
• a hammer to work on the texture of metal
• a rose to work on intense reds and the complex structure of petals
• an apple to work on texture and volume
• a candle to paint delicate textures with precision
• a contemporary bouquet to explore new materials and techniques
• a classic floral composition painting elegant lilies and working on pottery
• a modern composition with burger-and-fries to explore a wide range of colors
• a fruity composition to work on many different fruit textures
• a final composition that brings everything together

In this drawing course, you will learn both the fundamental techniques of perspective and more advanced concepts. Here is what you will learn:

• the importance of the horizon line

• one-point perspective

• two-point perspective

• three-point perspective

• dividing and multiplying in perspective

• creating rounded forms in perspective such as ellipses, arches, cylindrical towers, and dividing an ellipse

• mastering proportions in perspective using grids, scaling, the Brewer method, and creating perfect cubes and squares in perspective

• mastering slopes in perspective such as roofs, rising or descending streets, staircases, and more

• creating complex forms in perspective and cutting volumes

• mastering cast shadows and being able to construct them accurately

• atmospheric perspective

• five-point perspective

• putting all of this into practice through final projects: a city in one-point perspective, another in two-point perspective, a house, a house interior, a car, and everyday objects