Art Fundamentals: Foundations of Painting and Drawing Course (Udemy.com)

Learn the principles underlying how to draw, how to paint and how to communicate visually.

Created by: Scott Harris

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • How To Understand the Core Principles of Creating Art
  • Learn about Shape, Form and Detail in Art
  • How to Draw and Paint with Looseness, Energy and Confidence
  • How to Draw and Paint with Vision and a Clear Workflow
  • How to Build a Solid Foundation for Further Art Training

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Overall Score : 86 / 100

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Course Description

What is the bottom line of this course?
Put simply, it's a starting point to understand visual communication - it's more theoretical than practical, and will give you a solid foundation for your art learning and your art journey ahead. This course will not make you a professional artist, but it WILL give you foundations for reaching a professional level - and foundations are EVERYTHING in art.
Art Fundamentals: Drawing and Painting Essentials covers the key foundational principles that underly artwork and it's creation. You'll discover the core fundamentals you need to know in order to be effective at learning to draw and paint, be it digital or traditional, in any style or genre. This course is designed for artists of all levels.
Master The Essential Foundational Principles Of Drawing and Painting
  • Learn how images are built, from 2D shapes to final finished paintings
  • Understand how looseness, line weights and penmanship impact your artwork
  • Grasp the fundamentals of a strong art workflow, and the real goal of a "rough"
  • Gain insight on moving from vision to implementation, and reaching your idea
  • Recognise the empirical patterns apparent in all artwork
  • Learn to differentiate between art studies and art creation, and make real progress
  • Embrace true 3D drawing by learning to "Draw Through"
Learn Why Appealing Art Looks The Way It Does, And How To Do It
Professional concept artists, illustrators and painters have a deep understanding of how images are made - not just surface level things like "how to draw a head" or "How to paint a sky", but the in-depth background understanding of why an image looks good, and feels good to look at. I'll show you the important fundamentals you need to know in order to have strong foundations in principles of creating art, whether you want to draw, paint, create comics, design concept art or illustrate manga.
Art Fundamentals: Drawing and Painting Essentials covers key foundations of art creation for imaginative representational realism - drawing and painting realism from your imagination. This course is designed for imaginative and creative people who want to draw and paint from their minds, no matter the style or medium.
I've designed this course to be easily understood, and allow for efficient learning. Primarily focused on digital tools, most principles apply equally to traditional art tools as well, and you'll quickly see how you can switch between mediums easily. This first course covers the absolute foundations of imagery, and is a necessary step before moving onto other courses such as Perspective, Light and Form, Color, Composition, Anatomy, Character Design and Drawing, Environment Design, Industrial Design and many more.
Upon completing this course, you'll have a rock solid grasp of how art is made - both in terms of workflow, and fundamental principles. You'll be ready to approach studying other topics with the right artistic mindset, and a comprehensive set of skills. Who this course is for:
  • This course is for all levels of aspiring concept artists, illustrators, manga artists, comic artists, painters, industrial designers and imaginative realists.
  • This course is both for absolute beginners to art as well as high end art professionals, and is focused on the foundations of imaginative realism - that is, drawing and painting from your imagination. The course content can be implemented both traditionally and digitally. This course is not for you if you're interested in non-realism art, such as abstraction.

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Instructor Details

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As a high end artist and instructor, I've helped more than 159,000 students grow their art skills. Whether you're drawing characters, creatures, making manga or comics, painting portraits or creating worlds, I teach the core art knowledge you need to know to reach a high level quickly. I've invested years in learning the fundamental theories behind art and animation, teaching you to think like a master artist. I'm a zealous teacher that strives to bring students to a high level efficiently, with simple, easy to understand concepts, built on rock solid art theory. When you learn with me, you'll learn well, and learn efficiently. That's my promise to you.

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By Tevfik Blent ngn on 11/22/2020

Sorry but total waste of time and money. It was like 2 slides of a poor presentation and information. After more than 30-35 courses, this is the first time i give one star :(

By Niezvje on 11/15/2020

Tak, kurs jest fascynujcy

By Pamela Arriaza on 11/8/2020

I appreciated the valuable information imparted by the instructor. I do wish there had been more visual examples of the fundamentals discussed, as well as perhaps a format that might be more engaging than I felt his image against a white background was.

By Ja on 11/1/2020

found it dull, lots of explanation, basic common sense, not any practical involvement one would expect from an Art Course.

By Christian AlexZander Owens on 11/1/2020

I feel like I have a better understanding for art and my own pieces. I understand the things I weren't happy with are because I lacked the knowledge to take my art to another level.

By Paul Sawchuk on 10/11/2020

More examples would be nice. Overall. delivers what it advertises.

By Haarish on 10/10/2020

"Yes" is my answer. As a digital artist and an User Experience Designer, I feel that the principles are so helpful construct digitally or manually. Thanks Scott!

By Android Wang on 10/10/2020

I like it! It is just a little too short and very dense, making it hard to understand and follow. Please consider giving more examples other than just talking about the ideas, even if they are abstract. For example, the teacher mentioned quality over quantity. I think in that section we need a better definition of what is quality. He made it sounds like we should go through the whole workflow and finish the piece to ensure quality, while this should not be the case for art studies, right?

By Dalaun Knox on 10/8/2020

yes im learning alot better sand understanding more

By Premlata on 9/27/2020

so far so good.
Basic fundamentals are cleared.

By Joshua Lemke on 9/23/2020

Never before have I seen an instructor make art make so much sense, and I'm a University student. It was quite relieving to see a structural and perhaps logical side, as my right hemisphere isn't nearly as active. He explains things clearly and well without droning on too long. Before you consider getting this though, basically this whole thing is covered in his character drawing course (even more thoroughly) which has way more content and is the same price.
Due to the later, I almost refunded this course as I saw how much was overlap. But I decided not to because his courses are so helpful I'm happy to support him. And I eventually found that one of the things he mentions here might be the most vital art lesson I could have acquired. (I also felt kinda bad that I can only afford these when they're 90% off. It just doesn't feel fair to give so little and get so much.)

By Mariolize Steenkamp on 9/20/2020

Yes because I am a total novice