How to Self Assess Your Drawing Skills

Course Overview

This course, How to Self Assess Your Drawing Skills, is designed to help artists and art students accurately assess their level of drawing skills. It covers the five levels of drawing skills, from zero to five, and provides detailed information on the skills and techniques needed to reach each level. At level zero, the student will learn how to draw from observation, intuitively judge proportions, and render tonal values. At level one, the student will learn how to sharpen a pencil, hold a pencil, draw perfect lines, hatch and cross-hatch in layers, draw simple flat geometric objects, and understand the rules and principles of linear and aerial perspective. At level two, the student will learn how to draw classical orders, simple still-lifes, animals, draperies, and complex still-lifes with draperies. At level three, the student will learn how to draw interiors, exteriors, skulls, heads, and full-face and 3/4-view portraits. At level four, the student will learn how to draw skeletons, écorchés of arms, hands, feet, and torsos. At level five, the student will learn how to draw classical-canon figures, draped figures, multi-figure compositions, and portraits and figures of life-models. To learn more, enroll in the Personal Tutoring course.