How to Draw a Mug with a Handle

This course comes with 100 drawing tasks that range from such basic topics as how to sharpen and use a pencil, how to draw lines and geometric shapes, how to draw in perspective, how to render tonal values, to more advanced topics like how to draw portraits and figures, how to depict emotions in portraits, how to draw human bodies in motion and so on. This drawing education is based on the most fundamental thing of realistic drawing, which is called constructive drawing.

There are 34 constructive drawing principles including linear and aerial perspective, drawing objects as if they are transparent, intersections and contours, rendering values along contours, anatomy for artists, and so on. I'm flipping through pages of one of my sketchbooks just to show you a very small section of constructive drawing - how to intersect objects to find contours, which are virtual lines that reveal construction of three-dimensional objects. Although such exercises are optional for fine artists, they are very much needed for industrial designers and architects. Nevertheless, basic understanding of contours is also needed for visual artists who want to know how to draw any object from memory or imagination. In this tutorial, I will answer questions from Rose, one of the Correspondent Course students.

[rosecoroy]

Dear Vladimir, thank you so so much for making this video for me, it was really helpful. You are so generous!

[geels]

Why does the line not go through the center dot @15:35 ?