“The Acrylic Painting Academy” is a comprehensive painting course designed to guide absolute beginners to a level of producing professional quality acrylic paintings through concise and “easy to digest” modules that include HD videos and Ebooks. Designed for beginners, this course lays the foundation required for success with acrylics and painting in general.

Students are guided through a series of logically-sequenced course modules that build upon the last covering the following topics…

• Materials, surfaces, and tools. Compositional make up of acrylic paint and brushes commonly used for acrylic painting.
• Light and Form. How to mix and apply values of a color to create the illusion of light and form within a scene.
• Stretching Canvas. How to stretch and prepare your own canvas for painting.
• Learn the process of transferring images to a canvas and painting directly (Alla Prima) by mixing colors as they are observed. Apply layers of color applications to finish a painting that accurately communicates the subject through direct painting.
• Color Theory and Mixing. Learn the basics of color theory and how to mix colors accurately.
• Color Theory in Action. How to apply color theory in your paintings to create harmonious works.
• Acrylic Mediums. A look at various acrylic fluid and gel mediums that can be used to enhance the versatility of the medium.
• How to develop a painting completely made up of neutral values (Grisaille) to establish the tonal range.
• How to create and apply translucent glazes of color over an underpainting to develop the colors within a scene.
• Painting With a Knife. Learn to apply thick Impasto applications of color with painting knives.
• Abstraction / Non-Objective Painting. Strategies for creating successful abstract and non-objective acrylic paintings.

Acrylic paints, various brushes, and surfaces are required to “paint along” with each of the demonstrations.  

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I start you off nice and easy – Basic shapes and construction drawing

Master these and you’ll feel your confidence growing already. Lots of fun introductory projects like ‘Peppie the Pup’ build your skills step-by-step.

Wow! It looks so realistic! – Shading and Form

Those skills you’ve admired in other artists for so long can be your skills too. Projects like ‘The Shoe Well Travelled’ will challenge you (but you are up to the task!) Your drawing will almost ‘pop’ off the page, amazing yourself and those around you.

One of the most admirable skills in art – Portraiture

Capturing a likeness is one of the most admirable skills in art. It’s so satisfying. Render individual facial features and create a wonderful child portrait.

Look at the world in a whole new way – Perspective and Proportion

How can you represent the three-dimensional world on a flat piece of paper? How do things we see change as they get closer, further away or turn towards us? These questions are all answered with perspective. Your eyes are now open to a whole new way of seeing and drawing.

Plus an extra bonus…
For additional inspiration I’ve include an extra bonus section where I detail my approach to drawing people and cute characters using construction drawing.

This is the beginners drawing course you’ve been looking for…

Even if you think you’re not naturally talented my super easy methods and in-depth explanations will set you on the path from your first pencil lines towards creating professional-grade artworks.

I’ve been teaching beginner artists for over 20 years. I know exactly what you need to get started the right way, and I’ve jam-packed it into this course.

Plus, if you have any questions at all throughout your drawing journey, just ask. My team and I are right here for you.

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In this course, I’ll teach you how to practically apply color theory concepts to your digital art, so you can stop being afraid of color and start using it to elevate your art to a whole new level!

Color can be a scary aspect of any visual art, since poor use of color can easily make or break a great drawing, painting, logo, or sketch. Early in my own studies, I was repeatedly disappointed by the color theory tutorials I found online. Sure, I would learn some terminology–warm, cool, primary, secondary, complementary, etc–but this is just terminology! How do I actually use these concepts in my art?!

If you’ve ever found yourself asking that question, this is the course for you!

In addition to the hours of real-time, step-by-step video lessons, you’ll also get:

• Line drawings for practice, so you can focus on color.

• Layered PSD files used in the lessons.

• Examples from my pro work as a digital colorist at Image Comics & Top Cow.

Although Photoshop is used throughout this course, the color theory concepts taught here can be applied with most of your favorite digital art applications such as Photoshop, Clip Studio, Paintstorm, Procreate, Corel Painter, Sketchbook Pro, Krita, ArtRage, etc.

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The ‘The Ultimate Guide to Digital Sketching: Beginner to Advanced’ course will show you how to digitally sketch and draw skilled images that will stand up as professional work. The techniques taught in this course can be translated into any program from Photoshop to Procreate. This course will enhance or give you skills in digital drawing, or your money back!

This course is your track to building a solid portfolio of digital art and concept art! Whether for your own portfolio or for client work.

This course will take you from having little knowledge in how to draw and sketch to creating professional drawings in as little as one week.

So what else is in it for you?

You’ll be taken from basic sketches to creative ideas and drawings, from beginner to expert

You’ll gain instant access to all of the course. You can follow along and recreate my drawings or use it as inspiration to draw your own masterpiece.

The course is setup to quickly take you through step by step, the process of creating digital sketches. It will equip you with the knowledge to create stunning images and concept art!

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“Portrait Drawing The Smart Way” is a complete video course on drawing portraits designed for beginner and intermediate artists. The goal of this course is to provide the learner with a rich learning experience through “easy to digest” modules consisting of video demonstrations and accompanying ebooks. Designed for beginner and intermediate artists, this course lays the foundation required for success with portrait drawing.

Let’s face it. Portrait drawing can be intimidating to some. You sit down to draw a representational drawing of a person and something goes horribly wrong along the way. You’re not sure what happened, but you know that the drawing you just created just doesn’t quite look like the person. Fortunately, this doesn’t have to be case. With a bit of knowledge, practice, and few “secrets” used by the pros, accurate and realistic portrait drawings can be created by anyone – including you!

This course has been designed to accelerate learning by teaching to many different learning styles. Not all of us prefer to learn from watching videos. Some of us prefer to learn from books as well as videos. Each course module includes an illustrated ebook that corresponds with the video. Every step and concept is clearly illustrated and described in each downloadable ebook. The ebooks are a fantastic compliment to the comprehensive videos.

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Watercolor painting at its core is built upon pigment, water, and a painting surface, and in order to master the medium you need to thoroughly understand your materials. This course is designed to give you an in-depth look at the properties of each material used in the watercolor painting process. With this understanding, beginners will have an easier time learning techniques and experienced painters will be better equipped to perfect their skill and solve potential problems. This isn’t a hands-on painting class, but rather is a lecture-based course containing information you aren’t likely to find anywhere else.

• This course applies to both new painters as well as experienced painters. For the new painter, it will make the learning process much easier. For the experienced painter, it will give you a deeper understanding of the medium.
• This is not a watercolor technique class. Instead, this is intended to give viewers broader, deeper understanding of the medium.

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The Art & Science of Drawing is a remarkable program that will teach you how to draw one day at a time. The program is simple, each day you’ll watch one video lesson that will introduce an essential drawing skill, and then do the recommended practice. The Art & Science of Drawing is overflowing with powerful insights into the drawing process and offers some of the clearest, most accessible drawing instruction available.  Many of the tools and techniques you’ll learn here are rarely seen outside of private art academies.

This course is highly recommended for anyone interested in painting as well.  Most master painters agree that drawing is a fundamental and essential skill for all painters.  BASIC SKILLS is the perfect primer for anyone wanting to learn to draw. The skills you’ll learn here will dramatically improve your art & design no matter what medium you work in.

• Anyone wanting to learn to draw. Recommended for adults and determined teens.
• Painters! The best way to improve your painting is by learning to draw.
• Anyone interested in seriously pursuing art. Although this course in particular is designed for absolute beginners, THE ART & SCIENCE OF DRAWING series is designed to teach the fundamentals of master drawing.

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The Colored Pencil Course is a comprehensive learning experience designed to guide absolute beginners and intermediate artists to a level of producing professional quality colored pencil drawings through concise and “easy to digest” modules that include HD videos and Ebooks. This course is for anyone wanting to improve their drawing skills, particularly with colored pencils. This course is designed to maximize learning by including ebooks with each module. Each ebook corresponds with the video from the module ensuring that all learning styles are addressed. A total of over 5 hours of video instruction, 21 downloadable ebooks, and photo references are all included.

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