Drawing with Realism

Leah Walton2024-02-15T17:57:05-05:00

Welcome to Our Drawing with Realism Homeschool Curriculum: A Course for Drawing Realism Tips

Would your student enjoy drawing realistic and detailed objects? Drawing with Realism is a twelve-unit, video-based art course for middle and high school students. Students receive step-by-step video instruction from Jan Bower to develop and improve their drawing abilities. Each stand-alone unit provides artists with a four-part challenge and shows the how-tos of creating realistic drawings. Students experiment with different textures and techniques to experience superb results using minimal supplies like pencils, charcoals, and colored pencils.

Getting Started with Our Drawing with Realism Homeschool Curriculum: A Course for Drawing Realism Tips

This drawing realism course from Jan Bower of Drawing Success provides video demonstrations with step-by-step instructions for homeschool art students who want to develop or improve their drawing skills. Homeschool art students experience the joy of producing superb results with minimal supplies as they experiment with different textures using pencil, charcoal, and colored pencil.

Overview

12 units
Videos and printable lessons
Grades: 7–12

Supplies Needed

Select one of the items to draw on SchoolhouseTeachers.com. The format for each topic is the same. Download the supply list under Week 1 for your topic’s video on SchoolhouseTeachers.com.

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plans and mark them off when completed. Be sure to write any needed homework in your notebook.

More About Our Drawing with Realism Homeschool Curriculum: A Course for Drawing Realism Tips

Whether the homeschool art student has tried to draw an object that they couldn’t quite get to look the way they wanted or maybe knew where they were trying to go with a drawing but just didn’t know how to get there, these drawing lessons are for them!

Most developing artists have more art aptitude than they realize, but raw talent needs guidance, practice, and encouragement to excel. Drawing with Realism gives the homeschool art student all three. Many creative people are visual learners, so watching a step-by-step video demonstration of drawing realism tips as they draw along with the instructor is a wonderful way to learn and grow to really understand techniques that can help them draw with amazing results.

Each unit provides the student with a four-part challenge, showing the how-tos of creating realistic drawings, with every new subject an object or creature that features an interesting texture (e.g. furry, reflective, prickly, leathery, slippery, etc.). The homeschool art student can download the image to draw from, but they can also apply the techniques learned to similarly textured objects of their choice. Each video enables the student to go back and watch any portion of the homeschool art lesson as many times as they like to see how to achieve the desired result.

Students will never regret taking on the challenge of learning to draw well. Some skip drawing lessons altogether (often because of fear, thinking they can’t even draw a stick figure) and want to get right to the “fun” stuff. But drawing is very fun—incredibly fun once the artist learns the secrets of drawing well. Homeschool teens won’t feel like hiding their work from curious eyes; they’ll gain confidence at their ability to draw with excellence. Drawing skill can be an indispensable tool in the homeschool art student’s artistic toolbox that will continue to enhance their work in every other medium throughout their artistic career.

Each unit of drawing realism is a stand-alone project, though the four weekly homeschool art lessons should be done in order for the unit(s) chosen.

Develop artistic skills and understanding even further with Jan Bower’s in-depth DVD course, Drawing Success. This systematic progression of 36 lessons gives fabulous insights into creating beautiful art that communicates powerfully. Drawing Success contains over 1200 minutes of video instruction on 10 DVDs, a thorough lesson book, and more. View a short video about Drawing Success below or enjoy Jan Bower’s artistic devotionals (called Drawing Closer) at www.JanBower.com.

Course Outline for Our Drawing with Realism Homeschool Curriculum: A Course for Drawing Realism Tips

12 drawing realism lessons provide help to homeschool art students that want to improve their drawing skills.

How to Draw an Apple
How to Draw an Avocado
How to Draw an Orange
How to Draw a Cluster of Grapes
How to Draw Peppers
How to Draw a Marble
How to Draw Old Skeleton Keys
How to Draw a Maple Leaf
How to Draw a Salt Shaker
How to Draw a Candle
How to Draw a Button
How to Draw a Rose

Transcript Information for Our Drawing with Realism Homeschool Curriculum: A Course for Drawing Realism Tips

Through Drawing with Realism, homeschool art students may receive one-quarter credit for the completion of one year of projects. These projects with drawing realism tips help train the eye to be more observant to detail and increase skill in drawing a number of single objects.

To obtain a complete credit, and develop their artistic skills further, homeschool art students can earn one full credit by completing Jan Bower’s 36-lesson DVD course Drawing Success. This more in-depth course helps students establish their artistic education and guides them to successful creativity by teaching perspective, value, principles of composition and design, creating motion, contrasts, shading techniques, qualities of light and shadows, ways to strengthen focal points, and much more. The full art course includes 1,200 minutes of demonstration on 10 DVDs, a spiral bound Lesson Book, and a Photo Reference Book. An Art Supply Kit containing tools for the course is also available. You can learn more about Drawing Success at:

https://www.bowerarts.com/store/p5/Drawing_Success_DVD_Course.html

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Drawing with Realism

Length: 12 units
Content type: Video based
Grades: 7–12

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