Practice vs creation (why both matter)

Sketchflix is, at its core, a community of people developing their drawing skills. Our members range from total beginners, to self-taught artists seeking more structured ways to practice, to established artists looking to sharpen their skills.

This community revolves around the free lessons I've written (and rewritten, and rewritten again), which were originally built upon the foundations of what I learned from Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching course when I attended Concept Design Academy in 2013. Peter's own lessons build upon the work of his mentor, the late Norm Schureman.

Dynamic Sketching had an enormous impact on me, and while I've chosen to narrow the focus of Sketchflix to a very specific set of "core" fundamental concepts, I still believe Dynamic Sketching is an excellent course to take at some point - specifically because where Sketchflix will teach you to make your drawings feel solid and three dimensional, Dynamic Sketching will teach you to make them look really cool.

You can take Dynamic Sketching with Peter Han himself (although this is quite expensive, due to it including feedback from the instructor).

Sketchflix's goal is to provide beginners with a strong foundation, and to equip them with the things a lot of other courses and tutorials tend to take for granted. We achieve this by treating drawing less as an academic pursuit focusing on memorization, and more like an athletic one. While concepts are certainly explained, they are hammered in through active drills and repetition.

Sketchflix is a very rigorous course. Some students have completed it in as little as 5 months, while others have taken a year, or even two. What matters is that you give each exercise, and each drawing, as much time as it requires to be executed to the best of your current ability. Setting your own deadlines or expectations is highly discouraged - it'll cause you to rush, and to progress more slowly in the long run. Plenty of students come here with the intent to achieve something specific in a certain amount of time - if that is a necessity for you, then this course may not be the best choice.

It is not going to make you a professional on its own, but it will teach you how to practice, how to use the resources available to you on the internet, and equip you with the tools and skills you need to take advantage of them. Think of Sketchflix as one big tutorial zone in a sandbox game; it'll take a while to get through it, but once you're done, you'll be ready to enter a world full of fun and interesting sources of instruction.