Top 7 Recommended Sketch Self-Study Materials! [November 2024]

This is the 1st episode of my How to Draw 101 series. This course is about Basic Drawing Skills and 3D Sketching.

If you are an absolute beginner at drawing, this session can be a perfect choice for your very first drawing course. Or if you are not a beginner, but you are having difficulties with your drawings, you are just probably missing some of the basic puzzles which can be easily fixed in these lessons.

This course requires no previous drawing knowledge or special drawing equipment.
We'll be drawing with simple traditional graphite pencil on ordinary paper.

The first section is kind of an introduction to drawing.
I will show you

• the drawing tools you need

• optional tools for the future

• how to hold the pencil to get a better drawing experience

• how to see the world with the eyes of the artist

In the second section we will go through the basic building blocks of drawing. We will develop your basic drawing skills making a lot of fundamental drawing exercises.

You will learn how to draw

• straight lines

• parallel lines

• simple 2D shapes like triangles, rectangles, and squares

• curves

• circles, ovoid shapes, and ellipses

• simple 3D objects like cubes and cylinders

We will also develop your hand coordination by connecting dots with straight and curved lines.

The goal of these lessons is to gain confidence at drawing these simple elements that we will use to build more complex objects.

I will give you an introduction to perspective drawing discussing the most frequently used 2-point and 3-point perspective. I will also explain an important drawing principle called foreshortening. With this knowledge you'll be able to draw subjects convincingly in the 3D space.

In the third section we'll put the drawing skills you've learned into practice. We will make all sorts of sketches on real life subjects based on reference photos. We will draw

• a chess pawn built from simple 2D shapes

• a chair by drawing straight lines using the rules of perspective

• a fish using a bunch of S-curves

• a profile portrait to practice proportions

• a chess pawn with simple shading

• a pair of glasses

• a dancing human figure for an introduction to gesture drawing

• and an astronaut just for fun

At the end of the course, you can check if your drawing skills have improved. You can compare your sketches made at the beginning and at the end of the course. If you make all the exercises with me, I'm sure you will make a difference.

I hope you will enjoy this course as much as I did during its creation.

See you in my Basic Drawing Skills & Sketching Exercises course!

1. Introduction
2. Introduction
3. Test Your Drawing Skills
4. Drawing Tools You Need
5. Optional Tools
6. How to Hold the Pencil?
7. See Things Differently
8. Basic Drawing Skills
9. Practicing the Basics
10. Freehand Straight Lines
11. Parallel Lines
12. Connecting Dots
13. Simple 2D Shapes
14. Perspective
15. Curves
16. Connecting Dots With Curves
17. Circles
18. Ovoid Shapes & Ellipses
19. Closed Curves
20. 3D Objects
21. Foreshortening
22. Sum Up
23. Sketching & Drawing
24. What is Sketching?
25. Sketching Real Life Subjects
26. Chess Pawn
27. Chair
28. Fish
29. Profile Portrait
30. Simplified Shading
31. Shading the Chess Pawn
32. Glasses
33. Dancing Figure
34. Astronaut
35. Have You Improved?

Would you like to learn how to effectively communicate ideas in visual form? Would you like to learn how to draw? Would you like to draw interesting and aesthetically pleasing art and designs, including products, scenes, various objects, and more? 

In this course, you will learn how to draw effectively as a strong foundation for graphic design and other types of design. This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to visually communicate and draw effectively.

Some graphic designers start immediately on the computer, but drawing first by hand is a common practice at many top design agencies, advertising firms, and other types of design businesses. This process is also taught at art colleges, universities, and other institutions. Graphic designers and other designers benefit from learning how to draw in order to brainstorm, sketch, visually communicate ideas, and design.

Regardless of whether you are working on a logo design, editorial design, advertising design, digital design, or other types of design, drawing as part of the design process is an established practice that can help you more effectively produce clear and beautiful designs.

In this course, you will learn about materials and how drawing can benefit designers. Then you will learn how to draw in various sections:

• Mark Making Exercises - Learn many different methods of mark making in the context of drawing and design.

• Gesture Drawing - Draw an organic object, a video game controller, a Holga camera, and a paintbrush using gestural drawing methods for quick drawings to capture the essence or gesture of an object or scene.

• Drawing Basic Shapes Effectively - Learn various ways to draw basic shapes which can be used in line drawings and structural drawings later.

• Structural Drawing - Learn how to draw a sphere, cone, cube, and cylinder, and also start to draw structure-based objects such as a vase.

• Drawing Structure-Based Products - Next, use what you have learned so far by drawing structure-based objects, including a tennis ball (sphere-based), a funnel (cone-based), a makeup applicator (cylinder-based), and a GameCube console (cube-based).

• Value, Lighting, and Shading - Learn how to add a lighting source, highlights, and shadows for depth and form in drawings.

• Composition in Drawing - Apply effective composition in drawings and logo designs. Examples include the rule of thirds, focal point, formal subdivision, drawing an asymmetrical logo, and much more.

• Product Sketches - Apply structural drawing and value practices in order to draw products sketches such as a still life and a power drill.

• Drawing the Head and Face Fundamentals - Learn the basics of drawing facial proportions, for those instances where drawing people is required in designs.

• Drawing in Perspective - Learn how to draw a cube, sideways cylinder, and interior space using one-point perspective. Follow along in additional exercises in two-point perspective in the included book.

Enroll today and get started learning how to draw for design!

About the Instructor:

Jonathan Simon is a fine artist, illustrator and university professor. He holds a B.F.A in illustration from Memphis College of Art and a M.F.A. in painting from the New York Academy of Art. He has studied with a variety of talented artists in both accredited programs and private apprenticeships, including Tony Ryder, author of The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, Jacob Collins and Michael Grimaldi of Water Street Atelier / The Grand Central Atelier, and Frank Porcu at the Art Students League of New York.

A studio artist for more than 26 years, Jonathan is also an experienced art educator who has held full-time faculty positions teaching intermediate- to advanced-level drawing, figure drawing, painting and illustration classes at colleges such as the New Hampshire Institute of Art. He believes in sound, proven methods, materials and approaches.

1. Introduction to Drawing and Sketching for Designers
2. Course Overview
3. Materials Part 1: Pencils and Sharpeners
4. Materials Part 2: Erasing Tools
5. Materials Part 3: Charcoal, Conté, and Paper
6. Materials List Links
7. How Drawing Can Benefit You
8. Tips for Taking Photos of Drawings for Critique Group
9. Support Files, Drawing Book, and Facebook Group Link
10. Drawing for Designers Book Overview
11. Mark Making Methods and Exercises
12. Section Introduction: Mark Making Exercises
13. Fundamentals of Line in Drawing
14. Mark Making Basics with Pencils and Erasers
15. Mark Making Exercises Part 1
16. Mark Making Exercises Part 2
17. Mark Making Exercises Part 3
18. Mark Making Exercises Part 4
19. Mark Making Exercises Part 5
20. Mark Making Exercises Part 6
21. Gesture Drawing
22. Section Introduction: Gesture Drawing
23. Gesture Drawing Exercise 1: Organic Object
24. Gesture Drawing Exercise 2: Video Game Controller
25. Gesture Drawing Exercise 3: Holga Camera
26. Gesture Drawing Exercise 4: Paintbrush
27. Methods for Drawing Basic Shapes Effectively
28. Section Introduction: Drawing Basic Shapes
29. Drawing Parallel and Perpendicular Lines for Square Shapes
30. Various Ways to Draw a Circle
31. Drawing Triangles
32. Drawing Rectangles and Angled Shapes
33. Drawing an Octagon and More
34. Combining Shapes in Drawings
35. Structural Drawing
36. Section Introduction: Structural Drawing
37. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Sphere
38. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cone
39. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cube Method 1
40. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cube Method 2
41. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 1
42. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 2 - Ellipse Exercises for Cylinders
43. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 3 - Angled Cylinders
44. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 4 - Cylinder-Based Object Exercises
45. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder Part 5 - Sideways Cylinders
46. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder-Based Vase Method 1
47. Structural Drawing: Drawing a Cylinder-Based Vase Method 2
48. Drawing Structure-Based Products
49. Section Introduction: Drawing Structure-Based Products
50. Drawing a Sphere-Based Product: Tennis Ball
51. Drawing a Cone-Based Product: Funnel
52. Drawing a Cylinder-Based Product: Makeup Part 1
53. Drawing a Cylinder-Based Product: Makeup Part 2
54. Drawing a Cube-Based Product: GameCube Console Part 1
55. Drawing a Cube-Based Product: GameCube Console Part 2
56. Value, Lighting, and Shading
57. Section Introduction: Value, Lighting, and Shading
58. Introduction to Value in Drawing
59. Lighting and Shading a Sphere
60. Lighting and Shading a Cone
61. Shading and Lighting a Cylinder
62. Lighting and Shading a Cube
63. Composition in Drawing and Logo Design
64. Section Introduction: Composition
65. Composition Exercises Part 1: The Rule of Thirds
66. Composition Exercises Part 2: Focal Point
67. Composition Exercises Part 3: Using a Grid
68. Composition Exercises Part 4: The Golden Ratio
69. Composition Exercises Part 5: Using Scale
70. Composition Exercises Part 6: Overlapping Elements
71. Composition Exercises Part 7: Drawing a Symmetrical Logo
72. Composition Exercises Part 8: Drawing an Asymmetrical Logo
73. Composition Exercises Part 9: Drawing a Radial Logo
74. Composition Exercises Part 10: Drawing a Rotational Logo
75. Composition Exercises Part 11: Formal Subdivision
76. Composition Exercises Part 12: Informal Subdivision
77. Composition Exercises Part 13 - Directional Lines
78. Composition Exercises Part 14 - Perspective Exercises
79. Product Sketching
80. Section Introduction: Product Sketching
81. Product Sketch 1: Drawing a Drill Part 1
82. Product Sketch 1: Drawing a Drill Part 2
83. Product Sketch 1: Drawing a Drill Part 3
84. Product Sketch 1: Drawing a Drill Part 4
85. Product Sketch 2: Drawing a Still Life of an Olive Oil Bottle and Banana Part 1
86. Product Sketch 2: Drawing a Still Life of an Olive Oil Bottle and Banana Part 2
87. Product Sketch 2: Drawing a Still Life of an Olive Oil Bottle and Banana Part 3
88. Drawing the Head and Face Fundamentals
89. Section Introduction: Drawing the Head and Face Fundamentals
90. Drawing the Face and Head Fundamentals Part 1
91. Drawing the Face and Head Fundamentals Part 2
92. Drawing the Face and Head Fundamentals Part 3
93. Drawing the Face and Head Fundamentals Part 4
94. Drawing in Perspective
95. Section Introduction: Drawing in Perspective
96. Drawing a Cube in Perspective Part 1: Bird's-Eye View
97. Drawing a Cube in Perspective Part 2: Eye Level View
98. Drawing a Cube in Perspective Part 3: Worm's-Eye View
99. Drawing a Cube in Perspective Part 4: Turned Cube
100. Drawing a Sideways Cylinder in Perspective
101. Drawing a Sideways Cylinder in One-Point Perspective
102. Drawing an Interior Room in One-Point Perspective
103. Course Conclusion
104. Course Conclusion
105. Bonus: Learn Even More!

This course uses Sketch 5 (version 51.2), course version 2018.1 - released August 23rd 2018, and featuring the latest features of Sketch 3 such as Libraries & Prototyping.

Clean, intuitive and frequently named on of the best packages available for digital design, Sketch is used by everyone from entrepreneurs and start ups to Apple, Google, Facebook, and Instagram. 

A brilliant tool for platform design, Sketch and can be learned in a matter of hours and days, not weeks and months, and this course will take your mobile and web app designs to the next level! 

But is it the right course for you? It is if....

• You want to get a job at an amazing company like Facebook, Google, Amazon, or Uber. 

• You have amazing startup ideas, but don't know how to bring them to life.

• You are tired of your day job and want to learn a new (and extremely valuable) skill.

• You want to earn money on the side as a freelancer.

• You want to change your career trajectory but do not have the time or money to go to an immersive 3 month bootcamp.

• You are a developer and want to be able to run all aspects of the product development lifecycle including frontend design.

Still not convinced? Course instructor Andrew Eddy is an extremely well regarded UI/UX designer with over 10 years of professional experience. He has helped some of the largest companies in the world design beautiful products, and worked with countless start-ups to help bring their ideas to life. And he did it all with one tool, Sketch.

With over 13 hours of content across 110+ lectures, Andrew will take you from beginner to expert, and teach you everything you need to know in order to use Sketch in professional setting. The first half of the course is a compendium of hundreds of the most important techniques, key shortcuts, tips and tricks... welcome to:

• Sketch University! The most comprehensive A-Z approach to understanding Sketch concepts and the tools that power the platform.

The second half of the course is entirely practical and teaches you the skills you need to tackle your own projects and ideas. Together you and Andrew will design, build and complete two brilliant projects. Beginning with a...: 

• Speed Project! Use your newfound skills to design your very first mobile app screen.

This is followed by a huge, in-depth project to build a commercial mobile and web app called Spendo. Here you’ll get the inside track on everything you need to consider for your own projects - from the initial idea, through research and mock ups, to prototyping, design and, finally, the deployment of assets to developers:

• The Idea: What do you need to consider when launching your own business? Find out here!

• Style Guide: Learn how to create a brand-focused style guide, and why it’s so important you do! Includes typography and colour design. 

• Logo Design: Every great business needs a great logo. In this section you’ll learn how to create an amazing business logo. 

• Wireframing: Learn what a wireframe is and how to use it to create a first draft for a mobile application. 

• Building the mobile app: Learn best practices for your mobile design work, from an industry professional!

• Building the web app: See how web differs from mobile, and the key elements you must include for a successful web app.

Every lecture is fully supported by the Instructor, with image downloads and sketch files available, as well as additional resources, quizzes, and assignments to make sure test and cement your knowledge. 

A fantastic course for people with zero design experience, or for experienced designers that want to learn and master Sketch 3. By the end of this course you’ll have a complete, professional-level project for your own portfolio, and every student will have the knowledge they need to create beautiful and usable apps that leave people with a smile on their face.

Course highlights:

• Practical, A-Z project of App design

• Tips & Tricks, make most of Sketch Tools

• Vector Tools and Symbols

• Colors, Icons, and Typography

• BONUS! Creating a working, interactive Prototype

• A certificate of completion upon finishing the course.

So, what are you waiting for? Enroll today!!

1. Introduction
2. Why I built this course
3. Join the Community!
4. Sketch Versions (PLEASE WATCH) - UPDATED 2020
5. Sketch University
6. Intro to Sketch University
7. Sketch Requirements
8. The Interface
9. New Sketch Interface (UPDATED 2020)
10. Dark Mode - (UPDATED 2020)
11. Layer Basics
12. Layer Basics: Smart Constraints, Tidy, & Make Grid (UPDATED 2020)
13. Editing Shapes
14. Pasting SVG Code (UPDATED 2020)
15. Boolean Operations
16. Boolean Operations: Text Elements & Outlines (UPDATED 2020)
17. Other Shape Tools
18. Intro to Text
19. More on Text (UPDATED 2020)
20. Images & Bitmaps
21. Best New Feature: Data (UPDATED 2020)
22. Text Styles
23. New Text Styles (UPDATED 2020)
24. Grouping Layers
25. Styling Part 1: Fills & Borders
26. Styling Part 2: Shadows & Blurs
27. Styling Part 3: Colors, Gradients, and Shared Layer Styles
28. Symbols
29. The Canvas
30. Exporting
31. Speed Project: Designing a Mobile App Screen
32. Intro to Speed Project
33. Re-designing Headspace App
34. Header Background
35. Header Text & Button
36. Progress Bar and Text Style
37. Funky Shapes
38. Final Section
39. Sketch Mirror
40. Business Idea
41. Intro to The Idea
42. The Idea
43. Setting up our Style Guide: Colors
44. Intro to Color Styles
45. Basic Styles
46. Grey Colors
47. Accent Colors
48. Borders & Chart Lines
49. Inputs & Shadows
50. Style Guide: Typography
51. Intro to Typography Styles
52. Typography Guide
53. Typography Continued
54. Typography Sketch Download
55. Logo Design
56. Intro to Logo Design
57. Required Files
58. Starting our Logo Icon
59. Finishing Logo Icon
60. Finalizing our Logo
61. Turning our Logo into Symbols
62. Wireframing
63. Intro to Wireframing
64. Intro to Wireframing
65. Wireframe Screens
66. Web Based Wireframe tools: Free & Paid
67. Designing the Spendo Mobile App
68. Intro to Mobile App Design
69. Login Page
70. Finishing Login Page
71. Icons
72. Profile & Diverse UI Plugin
73. Profile Continued
74. Finishing Profile Screen
75. Expense Screen
76. Creating Expense Symbols
77. My Cards Screen
78. Virtual Credit Card
79. Card Info
80. Call to Action
81. CHALLENGE: Create the last screen on your own!
82. REVEAL: Challenge Completed
83. Designing the Spendo Web App
84. Intro to Web App Design
85. Web App Layout
86. Sidebar: Header
87. Sidebar: Header Continued
88. Menu Items
89. Active State
90. Top Menu
91. Complete Top Menu
92. Main View: Transactions
93. Transactions Continued
94. Creating Transaction Symbol
95. Adding Pagination
96. Finishing our Page
97. Setting up our Team Page
98. Team Page Continued
99. Adding a new Team Member
100. What do you want to see next?
101. 12 Column Bootstrap Grid
102. Intro to Grids
103. Intro to Bootstrap Grid
104. Bootstrap Grid Continued
105. Intro to 8 Point Grid System
106. Additional Reading: 8 Pt Grid System
107. Spendo Landing Page
108. Intro to Landing Page
109. Landing Page Example: Sketch
110. Setting up our Grid
111. Menu
112. Hero Section
113. Iphone Mockup
114. Browser Mockup
115. Credit Card Mockup
116. Heart Icon
117. Shield Icon
118. Alarm Icon
119. Reset bounding box after rotation
120. Camera Icon
121. Cloud Icon
122. Chat Bubble Icon
123. Icon Conversion
124. Feature Section
125. Feature 1: Text Content
126. Feature 1 & 2
127. Testimonial Part 1
128. Testimonial Part 2
129. Additional Resources
130. Call to Action
131. Footer
132. Master Spendo Download File
133. Prototyping
134. Speed Prototyping with Sketch
135. Prototyping the Spendo App
136. Intro to Invision
137. Prototyping with Invision
138. Craft by Invision
139. Data & Duplicate in Craft
140. Prototyping in Sketch and Sharing
141. Introduction to UX
142. What is User Experience?
143. Where UX Started
144. Usability
145. User Centered Design
146. 10 Principles of User Centered Design
147. Business Needs vs User Needs
148. Qualities of a good UX Designer
149. UX Design Proccess
150. Continued Education
151. Sketch Resources
152. Dribble: Show & Tell for Designers
153. Developer Handoff: Zeplin

First published on November 2014

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The course teaches you how to use SKETCH 3, which is probably the most powerful yet simple new generation design software available at the moment.

Sketch has been specifically created for APP and WEB DESIGN. That is why Sketch has been chosen by top designers at GOOGLE, DROPBOX, FACEBOOK and TWITTER among other top web companies and startups.

The course is designed to be taken by absolute beginners and is also valuable for intermediate designers who want to transition from other traditional softwares such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks.

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1. Introduction to Sketch
2. Introduction to the interface
3. How to deal with layers
4. Standard shapes
5. Introduction to standard shapes
6. How to deal with borders
7. FOR THE BRAVE - CHALLENGE 1
8. SOLUTION - CHALLENGE 1
9. Boolean operations
10. Introduction to boolean operations
11. FOR THE BRAVE // CHALLENGE 2
12. SOLUTION - CHALLENGE 2
13. Vectorize stroke
14. CASE STUDY 1 // Recreate a Gear icon from Apple.com
15. CASE STUDY 2 // Recreate a Bus icon from Thenounproject.com
16. Scale tool
17. Learn how Scale is different from Resize
18. Make it right
19. Keep your file clean and well organized: groups and naming
20. How to measure distances
21. Rulers and guides
22. Transform tool
23. Introduction to the transform tool
24. CASE STUDY 1 // Recreate a Glass icon
25. CASE STUDY 2 // Recreate the Italian Highway traffic sign
26. Masks
27. How to create masks
28. CASE STUDY 1 - Recreate the famous iOS 8 blur effect
29. Rotate copies
30. Introduction to rotate copies
31. CASE STUDY 1 - Recreate a clock icon
32. Text layers
33. Introduction to text layers
34. CASE STUDY 1 - How to apply multiple styles to a single text layer
35. Shared text styles
36. Create your first wireframe and design
37. Create the app wireframe
38. Design the app login screen
39. Design the app feed screen
40. Design the app article screen
41. END OF THE COURSE
42. EXTRA: New Masterclass UI Design
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