Drawing for Beginners – Part 2

What you’ll learn:
● Draw environments and objects in perspective
● Fully understand 1,2 and 3 point perspective
● How to shade objects
● How to render light and shadow
● How to render surfaces and textures

In this course:
● You will learn solid perspective techniques to make amazing art
● You will be able to think like an artist and be a problem solver
● How to control your pencil to shade and render smoother and more precisely
● Understand a variety of surfaces
● How to reproduce very common textures
● Create textures and even make up your own
● Understand the basics of how light works
● Calculate shadows without reference
● Become a more confident artist
● Look forward to challenges understand mistakes are normal

Description
Welcome to Drawing for Beginners – Part 2: Perspective, shading and rendering
This is a course in two parts and designed to further concepts introduced in Drawing for Beginners – Part I.
The first part of the course is an introduction to learning to draw Perspective. In this course, you will start from an absolute beginner and complete it with the knowledge and confidence to successfully draw in perspective. There is
no “Quick fix” or shortcut to perspective drawing. It requires work. It’s fun work and I’m going to be with you every
step of the way. To take our perspective drawing to the next level, the second part is a light and shadow course, a rendering course, and a texture course all in one. I believe all of those subjects are dependent on one another. We see light and shadow every day. We are
surrounded by textures and surfaces. So there is always an endless supply of references.

Offering 1WS23: Saturdays, Feb 25 to Apr 1 2023, 2:30pm to 4:30pm, Credo Christian High School 21846 52 Ave Langley (no class Mar 18 Spring Break)

Materials:
● Sketchbook – Opus Essential Wirebound Sketchbook 8x5x11” *suggested*
● Pentel P205 mechanical pencil and a regular pencil – 2B lead is what I prefer
● Kneaded eraser

About Your Instructor: Ian De Hoog

Ian de Hoog is a Canadian watercolourist and instructor living out on the West Coast of British Columbia. Ian developed an early visual interest in the medium due to the works of Franklin Carmichael and Toni Onley. However, it was during a brief stint studying architecture that a physical love of painting and art manifested. Ian’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and are included in a growing number of private collections around the world.