YouTube Art School: 30-Day Drawing Challenge by Mark

Jul 15, 2024

YouTube Art School: 30-Day Drawing Challenge by Mark

Introduction

  • Drawing is challenging, especially getting started.
  • Uncertainty about what to focus on can be overwhelming.
  • The 30-day plan is designed to help you learn drawing fundamentals.
  • Mark's experience: Professional artist, eating from art for many months.

Class Fee

  • Pay the class fee by liking or subscribing to the channel.
  • The exercises are designed to train you to think like an artist.
  • Suitable for both complete beginners and those with some experience.

Disclaimer

  • The plan took a long time to put together.
  • Avoid using this plan for your own YouTube or TikTok videos.

Week 1 Exercises

  1. Day 1: Draw a sphere and cut it in half at any angle.
  2. Day 2: Draw two overlapping spheres and cut them in half.
  3. Day 3: Draw a row of spheres converging towards a single point.
  4. Day 4: Draw a sphere, add light from above, and a shadow on the ground.
  5. Day 5: Draw three cylinders of different sizes.
  6. Day 6: Draw complex 2D shapes and add volume.
  7. Day 7: Draw two floating cubes from different angles, add shadows.

Week 2 Exercises

  1. Day 8: Draw two eyeballs looking in the same direction.
  2. Day 9: Draw a pyramid of cylinders and cubes, cut them into pieces.
  3. Day 10: Draw a full sphere, cylinder, and cube; draw their halves.
  4. Day 11: Draw two rows of overlapping spheres, slice them up.
  5. Day 12: Draw wiggly cylinders bent in different ways, cut into pieces.
  6. Day 13: Draw bending and twisting boxes, split into sections.
  7. Day 14: Draw three slices of a sphere.
  8. Day 15: Create a complex structure from a box with extruded shapes.

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Week 3 Exercises

  1. Day 16: Draw three different balls (cube, sphere, cylinder), make symmetrical.
  2. Day 17: Draw a bunch of semi-straight cylinders tied with a torus.
  3. Day 18: Draw a totem made of stacked 3D shapes.
  4. Day 19: Draw a complex box with volumes extruded and carved, like a house.
  5. Day 20: Draw a cup of coffee with a handle and a floating marshmallow.
  6. Day 21: Draw two boxes in one-point perspective, cut them in two.
  7. Day 22: Draw a complex volume from a box in one-point perspective.
  8. Day 23: Draw a short street with buildings in one-point perspective.
  9. Day 24: Draw a chest or box in two-point perspective.
  10. Day 25: Draw a building or room corner in two-point perspective.
  11. Day 26: Draw a simple hand using cylinders, spheres, and boxes.
  12. Day 27: Draw a maze in two-point perspective.
  13. Day 28: Draw a rotating box with an 'x' on one side.

Final Days

  1. Day 29: Draw a hand holding a long cylinder using simple volumes first.
  2. Day 30: Draw a simplified skull using reference, thinking in simple volumes.

Hashtag

  • Use the hashtag #learn_to_draw_in_30_days to share your progress.
  • Digital and traditional mediums both acceptable; digital brush pack available.