Do you like DRAWING? A GREAT online COURSE is starting today: I invite you to join me)

If you want to improve your drawing skills within a few weeks, TODAY is starting a great course for artists - Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration, made by Newcastle University (Australia) for the educational platform Edx.

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From my previous post about this course you can find out:

• what kind of exercises you will do if you enroll it
• why I am enrolling the course for the second time

If you never learnt online before, Edx is THE place to try. 

• It’s easy to sign up and to enroll the course
• it's free
• There are short videos related to each topic (with subtitles in english)
• There are PDF files with theory and examples (you can download or print them)
• There are exercises to check if you understood everything
• There are various and useful homework to submit before a deadline (ha-ha, there is nothing greater than a deadline to make us work better and faster)
• There is a discussion and an assessment of all your works by other participants.
• There is a huge community of art amateurs and professionals from all over the world. Look at this map!
  This is the “classroom” for thousands people who enrolled the course.

So, the  FIRST WEEK starts TODAY.
Hurry up, because even the first week is the introduction to the course, there is a lot to do.

To sign up

To meet your classmates and your teachers

To prepare your drawing materials. There is a recommended list for the whole course but for the first week you’ll need 2 or 3 pencils, a drawing pad and an eraser. 

To find out your future work spaces: a forest, a beach a botanical gardens, natural history museum, a zoo... Whatever you have in your city will be great.

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To make a research in the passionate field of… I won’t tell you the theme, it will be a surprise, a pleasant one, don’t worry.

To do basic exercises preparing you to create great 3D drawings: sketching, shading, composing… I already did some:



This first week is your first step to create beautiful artworks. When you learn the basis, you can do whatever you want
fantastic compositions
or realistic paintings

Everything starts with a simple shape.

During these 6 weeks you'll follow all these steps:

On ne dit jamais je serai peintre devant un beau site, mais devant un beau tableau.

We never say I'll be an artist in front of a beautiful landscape, but in front of a beautiful painting. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You have the opportunity to be a real artist today observing landscapes, plants, animals and drawing them in your own manner. You can look in the Instagram for the hashtag NHI101x to see what has been done by people who followed the same course last year. Isn't it beautiful?
I'm starting today and I'll be glad to share my progress with all steemian artists.


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