Christopher, thanks for asking. The process for developing the still life drawing you’re referencing isn’t featured as an exercise in the upcoming course. Instead, “Drawing Basics” is what we call a “skills course” that focuses on the rudiments of drawing, with exercises meant to develop confidence in the following areas: drawing lines at specific tilts on the page, replicating shapes of various sizes and proportions, matching values and contrasts, and organizing value “progressions” of different rates and ranges.

These skills are then applied to simple form studies of cubes, cylinders and spheres – volumes that embody the building-blocks of form. Universal concepts of light, form and perspective are discussed repeatedly along the way, and the demonstration videos are complete, with nearly every pencil stroke included.

It’s important to understand, however, that the emphasis of this course is not on completing a single, finished “work of art”, as in the portrait drawing course. Instead, the focus is on technical exercises that develop the foundational skills and command of the materials required to draw anything beautifully and with confidence. “Drawing Basics” is really a universal foundations course in drawing, and isn’t limited to a specific genre (i.e. Still Life Drawing, Cast Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Figure Drawing, etc.) Courses in those specific disciplines will be added to our catalog as they are completed.

Kind regards,
Christopher