Well, well, well, look at you wanting to go further.

It's time for the Level 2 Lessons. You've done the first Levels. Hopefully you didn't skip them because I did put a lot of pro level information in Levels 0 and 1.

You're very confident with your ability to draw, but something is missing.

You're here because you want to go even further. You either want to be a professional or you want to be able to draw at a professional level for your own satisfaction.

To help you do this, the Level 2 lessons will focus on more representational drawing techniques.

What do I mean by "representational?" I mean, drawings that look to more accurately "represent," what is seen in reality. What some people call, "realistic," or "semi-realistic."

We'll also cover naturalistic cartoons like Superman, Batman, or Terry and the Pirates.

Why representational drawing?

The Reasons You Should Practice Representational Drawing

It goes without saying that if you want to draw a person, place or thing and make it look as accurate as it looks like in reality, you'd want to know how.

However, did you know that it also helps with cartoon drawing? Why?

Cartoons are exaggerated reality. How can you exaggerate something that you've never seen in reality? Cartooning can be symbolic up to a point. However, there comes a point where, if you really want to take it to another level, you need to learn representational drawing.

It Helps With Imaginative Drawing

The more you learn about what things really look like the more it feeds your imagination.

The more you study reality, the more data you can pull from when drawing from imagination.

It Helps With Versatility

It's also, hands down, the most difficult form of drawing you can learn. The gauntlet of "Draw Fu Drawing Chambers" learning to draw representational puts you through, leads you to come out the other side, ready for anything.

For example, in the animation industry, if you're a hand draw animator, you need to be able to draw representational art or you won't get hired. The studios understand that, if you can do it they can trust you to be able to draw anything they throw at you.

Especially if you've honed your cartooning and design skills from the first two levels. Which is why I started with the cartoony stuff first.

Alright, so I think you're ready and it's time to get started...

As you can see, unlike the previous two levels, these lessons are paid video lessons.

There's a few reasons for this.

One, it incentivizes me to do them.

Second, the more important reason, is that the amount of information I need to produce would have been overwhelming to simply write down the way I did in the previous levels.

Three, people tend to take seriously what they pay for. The lessons have a very low monetary investment. If you're not willing to invest the little the videos are worth, you're not really serious about leveling up your skill set.

Time To Draw Fu!

Lesson 1: Sketching and Gesture: The Foundation To All Draw Fu Drawing

Lesson 2: Form and Dimension: Seeing Beyond Seeing (COMING SOON)