Steven Zapata - Form From Imagination Core and Premium Editions

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A detailed study of form across 7 modules, 14 chapters, and over 50 individual video lessons. Complete the course with the simplest of tools! All assignment demonstrations are done with pencil. Designed to increase your understanding and retention of the material.
An intuitive understanding of form is the most valuable drawing skill. It informs your choices on all other aspects of drafting - lines, gesture, color, everything! This is true even if you're working from reference. Whether you are designing characters for a game or painting a tree from life, you are always grappling with form in your mind.
Experience "Being the Form." The demonstrations and exercises in this course will help level up your skills and establish a crucial framework for understanding dimensionality in your art. You will grasp form in your mind more vividly than ever before. When the thing you're drawing feels real to you, depicting it well is a matter of course.

Course Syllabus

1. Introduction

Learn how to use the course, structure your time, and examine the nature of form and imagination.

Chapter videos:

How To Use This Course
What is Form?
What is Imagination?

2. Materials Overview

A look at all my drawing materials with links and a demonstration of the basic capabilities of the pencil, from hatching to stumping to veiling.

Chapter videos:

Materials Overview
What Your Pencil Can Do
Doing These Exercises Digitally

3. The Nature of Light

A multimedia exploration of various types of light. Consider how the illusion of form is created and why things look the way they do. Investigate photons, diffuse and specular reflection, and light falloff.

Chapter videos:

Types of Light
Diffuse Reflection
Specular Reflection

4. The Modeling Factors

Learn the 12 modeling factors and the optical effects that create the impression of three-dimensionality.

Chapter videos:

Modeling Factors Of The Sphere
Modeling Factors Of The Cube
Modeling Factors Of Cylinders and Other Geo Forms

5. Basic Geometric Forms

Learn how to draw and render basic geometric forms.

Chapter videos:

Front-Lit Sphere
Back-Lit Sphere
Cube
Cylinder
Perspective Crash Course- Cube Constructions With Shadows

6. Textured Geometric Forms

Introduce texture and secondary shapes to primary geometric forms.

Chapter videos:

Handling Textures Digitally
Textured Sphere
Textured Cylinder
Creative Sphere

7. Combined Geometric Forms

Learn how to handle complex forms and begin to compose scenes.

Chapter videos:

Sphere Group - Local Light
Compound Forms - Compound Block
Compound Forms - Creative (Modern House)
Combined Geometry - Quick Sketching
Combined Geometry - Rendering

8. Still Lifes

Design lit scenes with multiple elements using the principles of form.

Chapter videos:

Still Life - Geo Forms
Still Life - Creative

9. Combined Organic Geometry

Apply your knowledge of geometric forms to rounded organic forms.

Chapter videos:

Combined Geometry - Rounded Geo
Rounded Geometry in Digital
Combined Geometry - Relaxed
Organic Forms - Abstract

10. Simplifying Complex Organic Forms

Learn how to simplify even the most complex and subtle of organic forms into manageable structures.

Chapter videos:

Simplified Heads - Introduction and Render
Simplified Heads - Celebrities
Simplified Heads - Portraits
Organic Forms - Details
TV Heads Exercise

11. Understanding Primary Shapes

Deepen your understanding of primary shapes and their applications in character design.

Chapter videos:

Primary Shapes - Introduction
Primary Shapes - Natural Sketching
Primary Shapes - Toy Characters

12. Local Values on Forms

Learn how to handle local changes of value on complex forms.

Chapter videos:

Local Values - Introduction and Bean
Local Values - Cube
Local Values - Portrait

13. Designing Form: Imagination Tips and Principles

A large compendium of tips for designing and inventing form.

Chapter videos include:

Bad Shape, Bad Form
Drive the Silhouette Inside
Form and Void
Textures Further Explained
Transition to Color
Tips for Creating Form Digitally
+ Many More

14. Creative Demos

Apply your newfound skills and knowledge to creative work from imagination. These videos cover the realistic difficulties, compromises, and joys of free drawing.

Chapter videos: