How's it going guys.
I'm so excited to have you here with me as part of this course and you speak so to you because you are
taking the next step in your journey in progress into becoming a better artist so really quick before
we jump into things.
I wanted to go over a few housekeeping stuff.
I want to talk about how you can get the most out of this course what this course is and isn't and the
importance of sketching.
Why is it so important why do we even have a whole course on it.
Right.
So to start off to get the most out of this course do the assignments right.
It seems super simple but if you really want to get better at something the only way to do it is to
practice.
You can watch every single lecture in this course.
Five six seven eight times.
But if you don't do the assignments you're never going to get better.
So be sure to do the assignments also.
Make sure you go through each lecture in order and watch the whole thing.
They're in a specific order on purpose and if you skip ahead you might be drumming into concepts that
we haven't covered yet and that could make you get confused and frustrated.
So go in order and watch the whole lecture thoroughly post your progress in the Facebook group.
There's exclusive Facebook group for students only where you can post your work and what you're working
on and get feedback and critiques.
I really encourage posting it there because the only way to get better is for people to give you feedback
and point out where you might not have realized you messed up.
So just to clarify what this course is going to go over this is not a course on painting.
OK we're not going to be going over rendering or lighting or anything like that.
This course is specifically on how to sketch.
Right now the difference between sketching and drawing is that sketching is pretty much like drawing
it's the same thing almost except for we're not going to be doing a fully rendered drawing right.
We're not going to be getting super detailed in making a beautiful finished piece in as itself.
We're going to be exploring the idea of sketching which is exploring ideas through line.
Right.
So our sketches are going to will still be somewhat presentable they're going to be loose idea explorations
and coming up with different things that we can later take to finish painting or drawing.
But this of course is just specifically how to draw.
OK.
So this room for that differentiation it's clear it's about sketching which is coming up with ideas
and getting stuff out quickly so that you can further expand upon it versus drawing which can be just
creating a finished piece by itself.
So draw make that clear.
The last thing is understanding why sketching is so important.
If you're an artist or you aspire to be an artist the first fundamental building block of art is drawing
and the first fundamental building block of drawing is sketching.
OK.
Before you can have a fully finished beautifully rendered drawing or painting you have to have a really
solid underpricing and this course is going to show you how to do that.
So instead of just jumping in straight into really detailed complex drawings these cars will to start
out with creating a loose sketch and an idea of what you want whether it be environment people props
creatures whatever you want.
This of course is going to help you learn how to do that how to both sketch from life and out of your
own imagination.
So I'm really excited to see you guys progress through this and I can't wait to show you what I've got.
Hope you guys have a good one and I'll see you in the next lecture.