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Important: dates changed to July 28th and August 4th.

Learn to Draw: Drawing is an enjoyable artistic skill to learn and makes for a great hobby. When you are first starting, the quality of your drawings can feel like a major hurdle. You may think that you need professional lessons to make something good, but this isn’t true. By simply drawing for fun, you can save money and improve your skills.

• Pick a subject
• Draw short lines
• Fill in details
• Shade in shadows
• Practice drawing shapes
• Practice drawing shapes
• Make a reference sheet
• Redraw the subject
• Research drawing techniques
• Practice with more equipment
• Imagine how you’d draw objects
• Practice

Drawing is one of the major forms of expression within the visual arts. It is generally concerned with the marking of lines and areas of tone onto paper/other material, where the accurate representation of the visual world is expressed upon a plane surface. Traditional drawings were monochrome, or at least had little color, while modern colored-pencil drawings may approach or cross a boundary between drawing and painting. In Western terminology, drawing is distinct from painting, even though similar media often are employed in both tasks. Dry media, normally associated with drawing, such as chalk, may be used in pastel paintings. Drawing may be done with a liquid medium, applied with brushes or pens. Similar supports likewise can serve both: painting generally involves the application of liquid paint onto prepared canvas or panels, but sometimes an under drawing is drawn first on that same support. Drawing is often exploratory, with considerable emphasis on observation, problem-solving and composition. Drawing is also regularly used in preparation for a painting, further obfuscating their distinction. Drawings created for these purposes are called studies.

There are several categories of drawing, including figure drawing, cartooning, doodling, free hand and shading. There are also many drawing methods, such as line drawing, stippling, shading, the surrealist method of entopic graphomania (in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots), and tracing (drawing on a translucent paper, such as tracing paper, around the outline of preexisting shapes that show through the paper).

A quick, unrefined drawing may be called a sketch.

Drawing is used to express one’s creativity, and therefore has been prominent in the world of art. Throughout much of history, drawing was regarded as the foundation for artistic practice.

“Learn skills, tips, and trips to help you with your sketching and drawing! The class will focus on drawing from life, drawing from reference, and drawing from your imagination. If you want your sketching and finished pencil art to improve this is the class for you.”  Jared Salmond Materials needed are pencils, sharpeners, and erasers along with some good drawing paper. If you don’t have any of these items they may be purchased at Hobby Lobby, Michaels or the Artists Corner in Orem. We will also have a limited number of art kits you may purchase at the beginning of the class.

If you pay the day of the class it will cost you $30, but if you pay now, online, it will only cost you $25. We hope you will take advantage of this online discount.