Ultimate Guide to Digital Sketching: Beginner to Advanced (Udemy.com)

Austin Batchelor's course is a 5.5 hour sketching class for people who already own a drawing tablet and know the basics of their software. The description says the techniques carry over from Photoshop to Procreate, and the lessons lean toward characters and creatures with a game-art flavor. Batchelor works as a concept artist and freelance illustrator in the game industry. The course has about 3,800 reviews and a 4.4 rating.

Reviewers like the friendly, personal teaching, and one praised the fact that it is not tied to one program. Another said the inspiration line game is great for getting ideas, and a third who never took an art class found it interesting. The complaints are consistent, though. One wanted warm-ups on ovals, circles and line control, and one beginner said it jumps to faces and creatures without explaining the basic forms. Another felt pushed toward characters. One reviewer was bothered by the constant "OK" and "right" in the narration, and one gave up, calling it filler.

The course was last updated in 2019. Sketching technique ages slowly, so that matters less than it would for software training. At 5.5 hours it is quick to finish and works best as a creative workout, not a foundation course. True beginners should probably learn basic drawing first. If you have a tablet and some skill, it is a low-risk way to loosen up and get new ideas.