Beginner Guide to Art Fundamentals

Beginner's Guide to Art Fundamentals, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.15, with 49 lectures, based on 76 reviews, and has 328 subscribers.

You will learn about General Art Knowledge Anatomy Value Color Light Perspective Composition This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner Art Students or Students interested in Illustration/Concept Art or Art Hobbyists/Enthusiasts It is particularly useful for Beginner Art Students or Students interested in Illustration/Concept Art or Art Hobbyists/Enthusiasts.

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Summary

Title: Beginner's Guide to Art Fundamentals

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.15

Number of Lectures: 49

Number of Published Lectures: 49

Number of Curriculum Items: 49

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 49

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

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What You Will Learn

General Art Knowledge

Anatomy

Value

Color

Light

Perspective

Composition

Who Should Attend

Beginner Art Students

Students interested in Illustration/Concept Art

Art Hobbyists/Enthusiasts

Target Audiences

Beginner Art Students

Students interested in Illustration/Concept Art

Art Hobbyists/Enthusiasts

This course is a series of lectures that I’ve put together with the sole purpose of creating an easy onboarding experience for anyone interested in improving their art skills. Many people, including me, have felt very lost when wanting to start improving their art. These lectures are meant to supply students with a smooth, straightforward baseline for where to start.

Not only will this course teach you many of the basic principles of what I personally consider to be the primary fundamentals of art, but I also share recommended resources that helped me along my journey as well as suggestions for assignments to do on your own time to help better understand each fundamental.

To ensure that this course is for you I’ve provided a long introductory video that will express everything I go through in the lectures as well as insight into the art industry.

The courses included go over the following information, which is a must for anyone interested in improving their artwork:

Anatomy: The study and practice of understanding the muscular and skeletal structures of an animal or human. If you’ve ever wanted to draw characters, creatures, portraits, cute chibi animals, anything really, anatomy is a must to have a basic understanding of. I discuss all of the general aspects of anatomy including gesture, proportions, perspective, construction, and exaggeration.

Values: These videos will go over how to see things without color and instead view things as if they were in greyscale. I offer various tips and valuable information as to why being able to identify thing within values is so important to image-making.

Color/Light: Color is so important to help capture emotion in your images. I help define basic terminology as well as discuss all the basic ins and outs of color theory and how colors can affect us psychologically.

Perspective: one of the most overlooked fundamentals of art is perspective, however it is one of the most important fundamentals. Everything we see in the world follows some form of perspective, it’s how we translate what we perceive onto a flat 2-dimensional canvas. It’s a hefty, complicated subject but I offer many tips and tricks and advice to help understand and simplify the knowledge so that you can get started.

Composition: Composition is how images are arranged, whether it’s of a cool buff warrior guy or of a bunch of dots on a canvas. The order and positioning of shapes on the canvas plays a big part in how we perceive things and the way that it makes us feel when seeing images. It sounds very artsy and high brow, but I try my best to keep things approachable and offer easy solutions to get you to start practicing composition immediately.

Studying Techniques: At the end of every section I go over ways that you can start practicing these fundamentals right now. I also show my own personal progress and growth as an example of how effective these practices can be.

Music Credits in the videos: Dyalla, Bensound

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduction – What does it take to get better at art?

Lecture 3: Introduction – Style vs Skill

Lecture 4: Introduction – Comfort Zone

Lecture 5: Introduction – What are the Fundamentals of Art?

Lecture 6: Introduction – How to study

Chapter 2: Anatomy

Lecture 1: Anatomy – Introduction

Lecture 2: Anatomy – Defining Anatomy

Lecture 3: Anatomy – Technical Knowledge vs. Style

Lecture 4: Anatomy – What do Artists need to know?

Lecture 5: Anatomy – Gesture

Lecture 6: Anatomy – Proportions

Lecture 7: Anatomy – Perspective

Lecture 8: Anatomy – Construction

Lecture 9: Anatomy – Exaggeration

Lecture 10: Anatomy – Studying Techniques

Chapter 3: Value

Lecture 1: Value – Introduction

Lecture 2: Value – Definitions

Lecture 3: Value – Form Principle

Lecture 4: Value – Planes

Lecture 5: Value – Storytelling through Lighting

Lecture 6: Value – Shapewelding

Lecture 7: Value – Studying Techniques

Chapter 4: Color

Lecture 1: Color – Introduction

Lecture 2: Color – Value vs Color

Lecture 3: Color – Color Theory

Lecture 4: Color – Form Principle

Lecture 5: Color – Psychology of Color

Lecture 6: Color – Color Schemes

Lecture 7: Color – Storytelling with Color

Lecture 8: Color – Studying Techniques

Chapter 5: Perspective

Lecture 1: Perspective – Intro

Lecture 2: Perspective – 2D vs 3D

Lecture 3: Perspective – Foreshortening

Lecture 4: Perspective – Additional Terms

Lecture 5: Perspective – 1-Point Perspective

Lecture 6: Perspective – 2-Point Perspective

Lecture 7: Perspective – 3-Point Perspective

Lecture 8: Perspective – Tips and Tricks

Lecture 9: Perspective – Studying Techniques

Chapter 6: Composition

Lecture 1: Composition – Introduction

Lecture 2: Composition – Focal Points

Lecture 3: Composition – Silhouette and Shape

Lecture 4: Composition – Color

Lecture 5: Composition – Edges

Lecture 6: Composition – Thumbnailing and Guiding the Eye

Lecture 7: Composition – Mood through Shapes

Lecture 8: Composition – Tangents

Lecture 9: Composition – Studying Techniques

Instructors

Forrest Imel
Professional Illustrator/Concept Artist

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