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Famous Artists School Drawing Course
Famous Artists School
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A self-paced mail-in drawing course from the 1950s, created by Norman Rockwell and Albert Dorne to teach people to draw on their own through printed lessons and exercises. Later sold as the Art Instruction Schools courses.
One commenter points to the original self-paced course books as a way to teach yourself to draw, noting that discipline in doing the exercises still gets results even without mail-in critique.
Design & Creativebeginnerself-paced text#drawing#self-taught#norman rockwell#albert dorne#fundamentals
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Learning to draw? If you have access to LinkedIn Learning (often available through public libraries if you don't have a premium account) all of the fundamental art courses there are absolutely fantastic. I'm an art school guy and while there's obviously a ton of value in getting personalized critique and tailored assignments from professors, the breadth, quality, and format of the LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) material-- from drawing, to watercolor work, to graphic design, to character design, to photography-- is truly exceptional.
If you're savvy, you can probably get ahold of the course books for the self-paced "Famous Artists School" courses from the 50s. They later became the "Art Instruction Schools" courses that had the commercials with that dorky guy saying "Do you like to draw, or paint, or maybe just sketch and doodle?" It was created by Norman Rockwell and Albert Dorne specifically to guide people to teach themselves how to draw. You obviously can't get the mail-in critique, but if you have the discipline to do all of the exercises, you'll still do well.