What you will learn:
- How to use the unique qualities of block crayons to create complete, colorful drawings with ease
- How to blend the block crayon colors, very much like paints on a canvas, to create richer and deeper colors and color variations
- How to control the value of the color, the lightness and darkness of the color as a useful artistic effect.
- How to modulate the value in shading techniques to provide clarity and depth to the drawings
- How to use simple shapes, such as circles, ovals, egg-shapes, etc to build toward more complex figures such as animals.
- How to understand warm and cool colors and what they do in a color composition
- How to understand complementary colors in composition
- How to use contrast to highlight certain elements in a drawing
- How to work gradually, rather than in a rush, because there is no "crayon eraser".
What you will receive:
- A materials list (provided below)
- A course introduction and overview
- 36 start-to-finish lessons that allow you to work at your own pace. You can watch the lesson all the way through. You can pause it when you like. You can watch and rewatch it as many times as you need.
What you will need:
- The few materials listed
- A well-lit area for drawing
- A device for playing the video lessons
Who This Course is For
This course is for anyone, youth to adult, who would like to learn some simple and effective techniques with block crayons in order to create some stunning artwork right away.
As noted above, this course is a great primer for students who might want to later venture into pastel, colored-pencil, or charcoal drawing.
Block Crayon Drawing Level One Course
This course is anyone who wants to learn about the unique and wonderful artistic medium known as block crayons. Because of their shapes, the block crayons apply color in wider bands, much more like a paintbrush than a stick crayon or colored pencil. This allows for blending of colors and shading--both of which allow for vibrant, rich, and beautiful visual effects. In addition, the block crayons apply color quickly, much more quickly than a tradition stick crayon. So, the beautiful drawings in this course can be created relatively quickly. The 36 start-to-finish lessons take the student through 36 drawings, and the lessons average somewhere around 15 minutes each. This course is a great primer for students who might want to later venture into pastel, colored-pencil, or charcoal drawing.
NOTE: This course is our stand-alone artistic course that will help develop skill and confidence—and I hope some joy, too!—for anyone of any age. We have a Language Arts and Drawing course specific to the grades curriculum:
Example Curriculum
- Lesson 1 (9:15)
- Lesson 2 (13:20)
- Lesson 3 (10:13)
- Lesson 4 (11:23)
- Lesson 5 (12:02)
- Lesson 6 (17:49)
- Lesson 7 (17:23)
- Lesson 8 (12:14)
- Lesson 9 (12:57)
- Lesson 10 (13:31)
- Lesson 11 (11:33)
- Lesson 12 (14:52)
- Lesson 13 (12:10)
- Lesson 14 (18:01)
- Lesson 15 (20:51)
- Lesson 16 (15:41)
- Lesson 17 (15:30)
- Lesson 18 (23:15)
- Lesson 19 (22:04)
- Lesson 20 (11:18)
- Lesson 21 (12:57)
- Lesson 22 (31:41)
- Lesson 23 (22:54)
- Lesson 24 (16:43)
- Lesson 25 (22:58)
- Lesson 26 (21:23)
- Lesson 27 (20:37)
- Lesson 28 (10:28)
- Lesson 29 (12:25)
- Lesson 30 (19:07)
- Lesson 31 (17:24)
- Lesson 32 (22:50)
- Lesson 33 (19:11)
- Lesson 34 (10:49)
- Lesson 35 (17:56)
- Lesson 36 (10:33)
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