Lesson 8. Invention!

Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.

Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers.

Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.

Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.

Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.

Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.

Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right.

Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.