Drawing and Sketching for Designers (and Everyone Else!)

• Effectively communicate visually with drawing.
• Drawing gesture drawings, structural drawings, product sketches, and more.
• Apply appropriate value (lighting and shading), texture, and line in drawings.
• Apply effective composition in drawings, designs, and logo designs.
• Apply dozens of types of mark making methods with a variety of materials (pencil, charcoal, and conté).
• Draw form-based products with appropriate mark making and shading.
• Combine various shapes and forms to produce more complicated drawings of objects and products.
• Draw the head and face with appropriate proportion.
• Draw objects and a scene in one-point perspective.

Who this course is for:

• Anyone wanting to effectively communicate in visual form by using drawing.
• Graphic designers wanting to improve their drawing skills.
• Graphic designers, logo designers and others wanting to learn and apply compositional principles in designs and drawings.
• Anyone who wants to learn and apply effective line work, shading, mark making, perspective, and composition in order to produce interesting and informative drawings and designs.