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How to Draw
The Great Courses
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2019–2022 · score 1.8
A Great Courses (now Wondrium) lecture series taught by Dr. Brody that teaches drawing as a set of learnable skills, starting from the basics. It is aimed at people who want to learn to sketch from scratch.
Commenters say it changed their view that drawing is a natural gift, and one calls its content and style perfect for someone restarting drawing.
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20062026
On Wondrium.com (used to be The Great Courses). They have a course I have been taking and love it. I was an aspiring artist but I dropped out of the pursuit for many years. Recently I got the itch to draw more seriously than a rare doodle. I find their How to Draw course is perfect in content and style (https://www.wondrium.com/how-to-draw . I think you can get a 14 day trial for Wondrium to try it, which is what I did.
However, I keep renewing my sub because there are tons of great courses. Good luck! -KC
This comes about because people can't get past the idea that art is a natural gift, whereas it is in most part a learnable skill. My thinking on this changed after watching the Great Course's "How to Draw" lectures [1]. Dr. Brody explains most people don't realize that with effort and practice they can learn to draw effectively; that it's not something you're born with.
If you accept that it can be decomposed into small skills, which can be practiced, and aggregated to create effective art, then it can be tested and graded.
[1] https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-draw.html