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Foundational Drawing Lessons
I teach you how to draw. For free.
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About
My boss calls me a "Renaissance Man," though that might be a bit of a stretch. Either way, I'm passionate about many things. In the past, I've worked as a web developer and a game programmer - but currently, I'm working as a concept artist for a game studio here in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
I create all sorts of things in my free time - digital illustrations, websites, games - though over the past six months, I've been spending most of my time teaching folks on Reddit how to draw.
I create all sorts of things in my free time - digital illustrations, websites, games - though over the past six months, I've been spending most of my time teaching folks on Reddit how to draw.
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Halifax, NS, Canada
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I put in about 40 hours a month running /r/ArtFundamentals and www.drawabox.com
If you have any questions in regards to my lessons - whether you're one of my patreon supporters or not - feel free to get in touch with me on Reddit (/u/Uncomfortable) or via twitter (@irshad0karim).
I'm a lot of things: an artist, a game programmer, a web developer, to name a few. Ever since I was in junior high, I spent just about all of my free time drawing, building websites and building games. Now, I work as a concept artist for a studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Back in August 2014, I started posting hand-written, structured drawing lessons to Reddit. These were basically the lessons I had been taught earlier that year when I studied in Los Angeles, and I felt like sharing. On top of that, I assigned homework and critiqued the work of anyone who had the confidence to post it publicly.
Since then the community, /r/ArtFundamentals, has grown. A lot. More than I could have imagined. I've written 11 individual lessons and hundreds upon hundreds of critiques. It's tough, and eats my days away, but it's hard to find anything quite as fulfilling. More recently, I've started building a dedicated website around it. This gave me the opportunity to rewrite all of the lessons - going from the format of short, hand written (or hand-scribbled) images to detailed articles full of demonstrations and explanations. I learned a lot over the last six months about how people learn, and what they struggle with. This is my opportunity to put what I learned to work.
If you have any questions in regards to my lessons - whether you're one of my patreon supporters or not - feel free to get in touch with me on Reddit (/u/Uncomfortable) or via twitter (@irshad0karim).
I'm a lot of things: an artist, a game programmer, a web developer, to name a few. Ever since I was in junior high, I spent just about all of my free time drawing, building websites and building games. Now, I work as a concept artist for a studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Back in August 2014, I started posting hand-written, structured drawing lessons to Reddit. These were basically the lessons I had been taught earlier that year when I studied in Los Angeles, and I felt like sharing. On top of that, I assigned homework and critiqued the work of anyone who had the confidence to post it publicly.
Since then the community, /r/ArtFundamentals, has grown. A lot. More than I could have imagined. I've written 11 individual lessons and hundreds upon hundreds of critiques. It's tough, and eats my days away, but it's hard to find anything quite as fulfilling. More recently, I've started building a dedicated website around it. This gave me the opportunity to rewrite all of the lessons - going from the format of short, hand written (or hand-scribbled) images to detailed articles full of demonstrations and explanations. I learned a lot over the last six months about how people learn, and what they struggle with. This is my opportunity to put what I learned to work.