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Course curriculum

    1. Student Orientation Video

    2. Join your community!

    3. Materials

    4. Vocabulary

    1. Proportions in Animals

    2. Drawing the Deer

    3. Comparing Animal and Human Faces

    4. Drawing Animal Faces

    5. Beginning a Detailed Drawing

    6. Beginning a More Detailed Sketch

About this course

  • $79.99
  • 10 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

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Course overview

This course introduces the foundations of animal drawing, focusing on gesture, proportion, and expressive mark-making. Elody Gyekis guides you through techniques for capturing movement and structure, from quick sketches to more developed studies. You’ll explore how to simplify complex anatomy into basic forms, use line weight and shading to describe volume, and build confidence in portraying different species. By combining observation with imagination, the lessons help you better understand animal dynamics while encouraging your own artistic voice. Whether you are new to drawing or expanding your practice, this course gives you tools to approach animals with clarity and expression.

  • Capture gesture and movement

  • Simplify complex animal anatomy

  • Build accurate proportions

  • Explore line weight and shading

  • Balance observation and imagination

  • Develop expressive, confident sketches

Instructor(s)

Elody Gyekis

Instructor

Elody Gyekis is a painter, animator, and sculptor who uses visual storytelling to reinvent traditional gender roles. Elody earned her MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2019 and her BFA in Painting and Ceramics from Penn State University in 2009. Her paintings have been exhibited in many solo and group shows in Pennsylvania and New York, and also across the USA, Central America, and Europe. She completed artist residencies in Sibiu, Romania in 2014, and Giverny, France in 2018. Elody has taught painting workshops in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Honduras, and Costa Rica. In addition to her fine art, she has been a community arts organizer of murals and other public art projects in Pennsylvania and beyond. Elody splits her time between living in Pennsylvania, Central America, and Brooklyn.

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