My first Skillshare class is live!
New Class: A Beginner’s Guide to Drawing and Painting Rocks
In this class you will learn how to start seeing the structure and forms within landscapes, specifically rocks. I explain how you can easily approach drawing and painting rocks with various mediums such as pencil, digital paint, watercolor and gouache. We will cover everything from pebbles and boulders to larger coastal cliffs and mountains.
Rocks are the foundations of our landscapes, on which everything else is built and grows. They often appear in landscapes as “supporting elements” but they can also be the focus!
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Everything I show you is how I learn and do my own art.
Example of my own paintings with rocks:
Class Structure
Introduction
What is this class about and what will you learn?
Start Small and Simple: Pebbles
Showing you some quick easy ways to get those lovely little rock details in your landscapes
Find the underlying structure: Boulders
How to find the underlying structure (or design your own) to simplify what you are seeing. This is a repeatable strategy that I use all the time! We use boulders as an example.
Build up the complexity: Coastal
How I break down complicated references, using a coastal cliff wall as an example
Go Big! Mountains
An introduction to the basic forms of mountains. After this you can draw simplified mountains and begin practicing adding detail. A full mountain tutorial is forthcoming!
Adding Texture and Plants
"Growies" as I call them are one of my favorite ways to make rocks more interesting!
Color - Digital, Watercolor and Gouache
A "crash course" in color
Digital painting Demo
Watercolor Demo
Gouache Demo
Bonus: Digital Painting Advice
Here I show you how digital color studies help me learn.
Class Project
Class project description
Ways to Watch:
Stream on Skillshare. Use my link to get 2 months free! Using my link to sign up for Premium also supports me a lot!
Download on Gumroad and watch forever, only pay once! (You can also stream it on Gumroad, but you get the bonus of being able to download as well)