Lessons Archive

In this lesson, Robert will take the knowledge learned from his color roughs and picture zone studies, and begin a finalized studio landscape piece.

Watch as Robert demonstrates one final color rough, with new lightning challenges to solve and picture zone decisions to make.

See Robert complete the study he began in part 1.

Watch as Robert executes another color study, this time with new structures, different lighting, and new challenges and problems to solve.

Follow along with Robert, and he continues and ultimately completes his color rough.

Join Robert as he executes a preliminary rough color study for a finished painting, and learn the importance these studies play in your final piece.

In this lesson, you will discover the differences between plein air landscape painting and studio landscape painting. Learn the unique challenges that await the landscape painter, and how to handle these challenges when you encounter them.

Follow along as Robert teaches the importance of picture zones; The foreground, middle ground, and background. Learn the importance that overlap plays in your composition, and how to design these zones from your reference to have them better suit your piece.

In this lesson, Robert will show you how to find and utilize proper reference, one of the most important tools for the studio painter.

There are times in the construction of a scene that you need a door opened, a hinged lid on a box, or an incline plane at a specific angle. To do this you will need to combine your knowledge of constructing right angles and ellipses. This lesson will cover how to solve these problems.

Planned projection, the culmination of all you have learned in this course to this point, help help to solidify and cement how and why perspective works. This lesson will put your perspective skills to the test and help lock in your understanding of perspective.

Now that you've learned to construct objects in three dimensions, you are now ready to light those objects, and in turn understand how to project the object's shadow onto a three dimensional space

In this lesson, Erik will demonstrate how to place objects at regular intervals as they proceed back into perspective.

In this lesson, you will learn how to properly create objects at an incline or decline in perspective, such as ramps, stairs, roofs, and other complex structures.

Join Erik as he demonstrates how to use your knowledge of circles and ellipses to build complex curvilinear forms in perspective.

Join Erik as he demonstrates how to properly add curvilinear shapes like spheres and cylinders into your scenes.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use perspective to place objects in a scene correctly, and ensure they sit in the proper relationship to other objects in the scene.

Join Erik as he goes over the various perspective types, and demonstrates how to set up a three dimensional space in your drawings.

In this lesson, Erik gives a brief introduction to perspective and it's importance to your art, while demonstrating some foundational techniques and proper tool usage.

Join Jeff as he finishes off his 3-hour drawing and enters the rendering stage, emphasizing the importance a strong initial lay-in has on the finished drawing.

closing thoughts, with Jeff Watts.