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Course overview

Elevate your drawing skills by focusing on specific techniques necessary to render three dimensional forms and bring your drawings to a refined finish. Within the context of drawing a still life, instructor Kylee Snow will guide you through understanding a value scale, creating a value study as a guide and developing a drawing to a level of breathtaking detail and realism. Learn tools to create seamless blending, soft edges, and a variety of textures. Explore how to observe nuances within different surfaces and how to build patterns and texture. By carefully observing and portraying the values within a drawing, learn how to create a dynamic sense of chiaroscuro.

  • Create a seamless value scale

  • Make a value study

  • Develop a drawing with chiaroscuro

  • How to turn form

  • Blending techniques

  • Adding texture and details

Course curriculum

    1. Student Orientation Video

    2. Join your community!

    3. Vocabulary

    4. Materials

    1. Value Exercises

    1. Developing a Drawing

    1. Finishing a Drawing

About this course

  • $69.99
  • 7 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content

Instructor

Kylee Snow

Instructor

Kylee Snow is a figurative artist working primarily in graphite. Her current body of work takes inspiration from old New England homes, exploring how people live in communication with built space, and the deep relationships between home, objects, and inhabitants. Originally from Vermont, she is based in Brooklyn and completed her MFA at the New York Academy of Art, where is also a recipient of the 2023-2024 Chubb Fellowship.

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