The number one easy-to-follow art tutorials online
I have based these videos on the experiences I have gained in teaching art in classes over 17 years.
In the videos, knowing the sort of problems beginners can find, I not only explain the basic concepts of good drawing technique, I also give close-up demonstrations.
To enable students to practise at home, all the pictures I work on in the videos are available for download from the course page.
As a registered student you are able to join my forum, which is exclusively for course students (I do not approve non-students for membership). This enables you to become part of a group of like-minded people, and share constructively comments and ideas with others.
You can also send me private messages for advice via the forum.
New tutorials will be added regularly over time, beginning with drawing and progressing to other mediums.
Children over 12, keen on art, would easily cope with the tutorials.
ALL THE TUTORIALS HAVE AN ENGLISH SUBTITLES OPTION IF YOU ARE HARD OF HEARING
The Complete Tutorials, normally £20 per month, is on special offer at £14.99 valid until 30th November 2022.
The first 10 tutorials
Tutorial 1
The first four tutorials are on the basics of accurate drawing. The first free lesson shows how to make an object look solid by using light and shade, and understanding the importance of proportions of objects to each other.
Tutorial 2
Simple perspective and and using vanishing points to draw realistic landscapes. Understanding negative spaces - the most important aspect of accuracy in drawing.
Tutorial 3
Simple figure drawing - making believable sketches of people in a few lines, moving onto figures standing in bright sunlight. More use of negative spaces!
Tutorial 4
Drawing faces. This is not about portraiture yet, but how to get facial proportions correct, how to draw eyes, and to use shading to make the hair and features expressive and believable.
Tutorial 5
More about faces and figures. Putting it all together to produce lively and interesting drawings of people. Talk about watercolour paper and simple requirements to start watercolour painting.
Tutorial 6
Starting with watercolour. An exercise using one colour with different dilutions to show tonal values. Moving onto working with 3 primary colours, from which a huge range of other colours can be mixed.
Tutorial 7
Painting simple subjects, like boats, and people using lifting out techniques to give dazzling light and shade.
Tutorial 8
Composition. A tutorial by photographer, David Stokes, on how to take and crop photos intended specifically for painting.
Tutorial 9
More about watercolour. Wet into wet painting for landscapes. Drawing trees, painting buildings in perspective, with composition in mind.
Tutorial 10
Animals. How to draw and paint them, starting with elephants and giraffes!
Further tutorials will be added regularly over time.