Drawing 101: Learn the Building Blocks of Sketching

Learn the fundamentals of drawing and gain the confidence to sketch any subject you like.

with Margherita Cole
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  • Beginner
  • 5.0 (2 Reviews)
  • 2.5 hours
  • Closed Captions
Understand how to sketch by learning the fundamentals of drawing.

From house plants to animals to people in motion, artist Margherita Cole will show you how to break down any subject and render it with confidence in pencil and ink.

  • Getting Started
  • Materials Talk
  • Supplies Checklist
  • Basic Shapes
  • How to Use Lines
  • Putting Lines Into Practice
  • How to Draw a House Plant
  • House Plant Reference Photo
  • How to Draw a Cat
  • Cat Reference Photo
  • How to Draw a Human Figure
  • Human Figure Reference Photo
  • What's Next
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Meet your instructor Margherita. Illustrator.

Margherita Cole is an artist born and raised in Southern California. She discovered her love of drawing at an early age with a comic about her dog moonlighting as a superhero, and has been smitten with the medium ever since. Her passion for creating stories through art brought her to Falmouth University in the UK, where she received an MA in Illustration.

Since then, she has worked as a writer and an artist for My Modern Met, creating drawing tutorials on a range of subjects. She has also had a how-to-draw book published by Walter Foster called 'Cartooning Made Easy: Circle Triangle Square', where she shows how geometric shapes can make creating characters easy and fun.

By just picking up a pencil, you have the ability to sketch animals, plants, people, and much more. I created the course for anyone who is interested in drawing and everything that it can do.

While there is a lot to know about drawing, we will cover essential skills that will make rendering different subjects much more approachable.

By the end of this course, I want students to feel like they have a better understanding of drawing tools and supplies and what they can do as well as basic techniques that can be applied to projects both small and large.

Learn the Building Blocks of Sketching to Draw Anything You Like

  • Get acquainted with essential drawing tools
  • Learn how to look for shapes
  • Practice essential techniques
  • Gain the confidence to draw all the things
Drawing 101: Learn the Building Blocks of Sketching
with Margherita Cole

$45.95

Buy $45.95
Drawing is a skill that you can take with you anywhere.
Join me on this course, and we’ll walk through some of the essential techniques that will make sketching easier and more fun.


Margherita Cole
Reviews
5 star rating

Excellent Course, Great Teacher

Amanda Armstrong

I loved how calm, focused, clear and competent the instructor was. She really inspired me. Her technique and work really demonstrate her mastery of the subject. She delivers instruction, guidance and advice in a down-to-earth and simplistic manner...

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I loved how calm, focused, clear and competent the instructor was. She really inspired me. Her technique and work really demonstrate her mastery of the subject. She delivers instruction, guidance and advice in a down-to-earth and simplistic manner that helped me understand as a beginner.

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5 star rating

Excellent course!

Mary Owen

This course gives the basics about drawing, including what materials to use, shading techniques with pen and ink, and dips into how to draw using basic geometric shapes. It also dips into how to draw the human figure. The reference photos are goo...

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This course gives the basics about drawing, including what materials to use, shading techniques with pen and ink, and dips into how to draw using basic geometric shapes. It also dips into how to draw the human figure. The reference photos are good choices to help learn basic drawing techniques. And Margherita Cole is a good instructor, who brings it all together well. MM Academy might want to consider offering a separate course focused on drawing the human figure.

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Frequently Asked Questions

There are so many different tools to use for drawing. Here are a few of my favorite drawing tools that I would recommend trying out:

-Strathmore Series 300 Bristol Pads (Any drawing paper or sketchbook is also ok)

- Prismacolor Premier Graphite Drawing Pencils and Erasers- 18-Piece Set

- Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen Set of 4 (Contains finalize and brush pens) 

- Ruler (Optional)

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