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After a lot of thought I have decided to build a step by step guide to for artists education. This will cover the skills needed along with the many choices to be made. It will also include information about debt and self study and other … Continue readingNew free art education step by step guide.
Hi gang I have been hard at work updating things. For starters I did a big upgrade to our forum. It now has its own blog to go along with the forum. And as part of that I made a brand new theme for the … Continue readingMore New Updates!
I have been looking for a free online video series on art history so every one could get quick an over view of art. And I finally found one. The videos are well made. The only drawback is they have the rather standard and propaganda … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Supplemental Section -Art History – Lesson Art Of The Western World
As mentioned in the introduction to this humble class I am going to be telling the story of art using studies of selected artists. And besides telling the larger story of art you will learn about the struggles of the artists. And some times their … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Supplemental Section -Art History – Lesson A Ernest Meissonier
After working with students in the free art course it has become clear that we need a section on art history. And even more importantly it is clear the students want to have it. And since I love history I am happy to be able … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Supplemental Section -Art History – Introduction
For the next exercise we will be doing the a sphere. You should have plenty of practice doing them from the shading part of the course. Now to get started get your palette out. Then mix small amounts of each value just like the last … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Painting – Exercise B
For this first exercise we are going to do the same value scale as from lesson A of the shading course. And we are going to it on your palette so you can a palette of grayscale. Now keep in mind you will not be … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Painting – Exercise A
Well it is now the time in the art work to introduce you to painting. By now you will have seen the limitations of pencil, charcoal, pastels and other related media probably. And you will be wanted something where you can do more. And the … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Painting – Introduction
Well a lot of you were asking about how to make a cheap easel so I decided to make some instructions instructions and a video. This easel was designed to be very little work and to take very few tools and of course to be … Continue readingEasy $20 Easel
For this next lesson we will finally do painting. And congratulations every one for putting in all the hard work to get to this point. And do not worry I am going to do digital painting also but it will be coming up in future … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 05 Painting (Traditional) – Introduction
Well this exercise will be a sort of test to make sure you have learned the basics of what you need. It will not be to see if you know everything about anatomy because you cant know it all at this point:) So even after … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise N
For this exercise we will be drawing a skeleton in a dynamic pose. First do gesture drawings to find the pose you like. Then do a detailed skeleton in that pose.
For this next exercise we will do some more gesture drawing to loosen up from the last work:) For this one I would like you to do several simple style gesture type drawings. Really try and capture the gesture and movement of the person. Have … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise L
OK for this exercise we want to do several studies of hands in different poses. You can use the constructive method on this one.
This next exercise goes back to the optical way of doing things. You will want to look at areas of light and dark to make the copy not construct it like the last exercise. I know this is some what contradictory but training your self … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise J
For this next exercise you will do a full detailed figure using the construction methods of Bridgeman and Loomis etc.
OK for this exercise I want you to do a head from your imagination using the construction methods you learned from Loomis, Bridgeman and Vilppu etc. Also do not do the head strait on but do it at an angle.
The next exercise is another master study. This time it is a Michelangelo and has more of the anatomy. You can either do just the main figure or also the small random sketches if you want extra credit:) You can find the full size file … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise G
For this exercise we are going to do another master study. And this one will be another one by Annibale Carracci. But I have a much larger version of this one so it will be easier to study the details. You can find the large … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise F
OK now we are going to start doing some master studies. When doing a master study the aim is not just to copy the image but try and understand how and why they did things. For example look at the way the lighting and shading … Continue readingPatrick’s Free Art Course – Lesson 04 Anatomy – Exercise E