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Learning How to Sketch and Paint
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Learning How to Sketch and Paint
Many of us learn best by watching others sketch or paint. There are many excellent videos available for free on YouTube on the many different ways to draw, sketch, paint, select materials and tools, and apply different techniques. There are also many artists who provide online resources (blogs, guides, videos, etc.) for free or a fee through their own web sites. Then there are many subscription services that offer access to a whole array of video lessons. One you might find affordable and useful is SkillShare. Below you will find a list of other such services as well as a list of artists who provide learning opportunities either through their own sites or YouTube. If you would like to recommend an online resource you have found helpful, please share it with Bill to add to this list.
You will find hundreds and hundreds of very helpful videos on YouTube made available by very talented sketchers and painters, as well as commercial establishments such as Jerry's Artarama in North Carolina.
Alphonso Dunn is an incredible pen and ink sketcher. He does much more but you can't go wrong watching any of his videos! [https://www.youtube.com/c/ALPHONSODUNN]
Paul Priestly is a British artist who offers wonderfully non-threatening lessons on learning how to sketch through his YouTube channel. [https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulPriestleyart]
Brandon Shaeffer’s “Learn to Draw” series is another good series of learning videos. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewMksAbgdBI&list=PL1HIh25sbqZnkA1T09UtVHoyjYaMJuK0a]
The Virtual Instructor has good learning videos on his YouTube channel. [https://www.youtube.com/c/thevirtualinstructor]
SkillShare is a commercial, subscription-based online service that offers an "all you can eat" menu of online classes on sketching and painting no matter what your favorite medium or approach is. They give you a generous trial period for free during which you can try lots of different SkillShare instructors' "classes." Go to http://www.skillshare.com/ and look for these instructors:
James Richards is a trained architect who is the consumate teacher! He is a big proponent of sketching and painting on location and has a very whimsical style.
Stephanie Bower is also a trained architect who works as an architectural illustrator. She, too, is a wonderul teacher on on-location sketching and painting. Her speciality is perspective, a very important skill to acquire when drawing buildings.
There are dozens and dozens of talented artists who offer a variety of sketching, drawing, and painting (all media) classes on SkillShare so do a search for topics that interest you and check out available classes.
Personal Web Sites
Personal Web Sites
Many artists who also provide videos or blogs on their craft often do this through their own web sites. Check these recommended sites out.
Darlene Nguyen offers her tutorials through her RapidFire website: http://rapidfireart.com/
Monika Zagrobelna has a site called "How to Learn to Draw" that's worth taking a look at. [https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-learn-to-draw-stage-one-manual-skills--cms-23304]
Ralph Ammer's "Quick Beginner's Guide to Drawing" provides very useful videos on getting into drawing. [https://medium.com/personal-growth/a-quick-beginners-guide-to-drawing-58213877715e]
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