The Fantasy Drawing Course
WELCOME TO THE DRAW DAILY FANTASY DRAWING COURSE
What is the Fantasy Drawing Course?
The Fantasy Drawing Course is a free fantasy-focused beginners drawing course. It is based off of what is known as construction drawing in the artist community.
What Is Construction Drawing?
Constructive drawing is one of the more versatile and creatively liberating methods of drawing that artists have at their disposal. Construction involves mastering fundamental, but rudimentary, perspective drawing principles that simplify otherwise complex subject matter. By breaking down a subject into basic shapes, artists can reimagine small elements, or entire compositions using only their intuition and creativity to bring their vision to life.
Alternative methods, such as those drilled into us in secondary school, relied almost entirely on observation. Observation which required looking at physical objects, and simply drawing them based on where they appeared to be in the composition. Short of getting up to adjust said objects or switching them out, they were impossible to modify. This puts extreme limitations on what an artist can create based solely on what is observable.
Constructive drawing frees artists from these constraints, allowing full creative control over the subject matter as well as other elements like composition and lighting. Mastering the Perspective techniques and other lessons throughout this course will give you the ability and freedom to create worlds beyond just what you can see in front of you.
How This Course Works
Although Draw Daily is primarily a free drawing course for budding artists, we aim to nurture more than just drawing skills. We believe in a more well rounded education for students, providing elements to our course that encourage development to our students creativity, problem solving, and design skills as well; all essential components to the artistic process.
Our Mission
In the process of figuring out how to provide a fun and unique way to teach the otherwise mundane process of learning to draw - along with our passion for fantasy and role playing games - we landed on creating a Quest Line. This is intended to intermingle and develop all the skills our students need, beyond just drawing. Creativity, design, and storytelling are pivotal skills as well. These aspects make your artwork more alluring to the audience.
You’ll be able to start off on your journey as soon as you create a character as outlined on the next page. Your character is never set in stone, so you have complete freedom to change, alter, or completely swap out your character at any time. If you have a hard time creating characters, there are a few examples on the next page that you can use.
How to Navigate This Course
Once you are finished with a page included in this course, you can click on the black button that says “Complete & Continue” or “Next Lesson” located at the top and bottom of each page.
Clicking this button will confirm that you have either read and understood the information provided, you’ve completely finished watching the video, or have completed the provided assignment.
Alternatively, you can access the complete list of each chapter along with all of their lessons and assignments by clicking on the pink hamburger located in the top left corner of this screen. You can use this to freely navigate the course without formally completing a page.
This window includes a progress bar which communicates how much of the course you have completed. Keep in mind that we continue to add new lessons and assignments, so if there is a jump or change to the percentage, it is certainly because new content has been added. Additionally, on the right side of this menu, there are circles which indicate with a check mark which pages you have marked as complete.
FAQ
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Absolutely. There is a huge difference between relying solely on one’s observational skills to compose a composition, and utilizing references to assist you in your creative endeavors. The human mind is imperfect and benefits from incorporating the use of references into your artistic process.