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5 YouTube Channels to Master Drawing Fundamentals

Learn perspective, proportion, and anatomy with 5 school-level YouTube channels. Structured, free foundations to level up your drawing.

Hand sketching basic portrait fundamentals with pencil
Nail the basics—perspective, proportion, and clean construction lines. Photo by Nastasia Kalinina / Unsplash

Every masterpiece rests on foundations. Perspective, proportion, anatomy—without them, your drawings collapse. The truth is harsh: skipping the basics traps you in frustration. But here’s the lifeline—these 4 YouTube channels give you school-level training, for free, right now.

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Proko
Hey there! My name is Stan Prokopenko, I’m an artist and teacher. Proko is a resource for artists to get good art instruction videos. When you watch Proko tutorials you’ll notice that I try to make them entertaining while keeping them educational. I feel that if you’re having fun and enjoying the learning process, you learn better. You retain more information, you pay more attention, you’re much more likely to continue learning and more likely to go back and re-watch tutorials. And it will leave you more inspired and motivated to go practice. I’ll be your host for most of the videos, but there will be other instructors that will appear on this channel as well. If you’re an artist interested in doing a collab feel free to email me :) Get Premium Drawing Courses: https://proko.com/store Become a Proko Affiliate: https://www.proko.com/affiliates
The Drawing Database-Northern Kentucky University
The Drawing Database is a public service outreach program, FREE to the public anytime-there is no fee! This channel is for Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts, as well as alumni/alumnae and can be used by interested other students internationally. The videos are “active learning”, meaning that the student can get the most out of the college level lessons by DRAWING ALONG WITH THEM! :) Marc Leone (leonem1@nku.edu for questions/feedback for the DDB) MFA-Arizona State University 2003 BFA-Art Center College of Design 1997
Circle Line Art School
Learn to draw with Circle Line Art School. Visit https://www.circlelineartschool.com to learn more and join my online drawing courses for beginners. My name is Tom McPherson and I post a new how-to-draw video every Saturday. I specialise in perspective and architectural drawings. I also draw optical illusions, landscapes etc. Please subscribe to watch a new how-to-draw art tutorial every week. My aim is to inspire people to learn to draw and be more creative. There are many ways to draw and my aim is to encourage you to try a range of different art techniques and subject matter each week. If you have any comments or suggestions or ideas on what you would like to see next week please leave a comment. You can join my new online drawing course for beginners here: https://www.circlelineartschool.com. Thank you for watching and see you next time! Tom McPherson Circle Line Art School
Fine Art Academy
Fine Art Drawing by Chinese artists. Materials Recommend Drawing Paper size 1 : https://amzn.to/2F8d0vU Drawing Paper size 2 : https://amzn.to/2JdqCsq Charcoal : http://amzn.to/2F4z6QD Charcoal pencil : http://amzn.to/2DY4BMT Eraser charcoal : http://amzn.to/2G4d3L0 Drawing tools : http://amzn.to/2DXA7KH
Art of Wei
Let me show you how to draw anything the easy way. Full step by step drawing demonstrations with graphite pencils. And I do 3D modeling as well. But that is not as fun as drawing.

Don’t just “wing it.” These channels hand you the blueprint for real artistic growth. Pick one video tonight—because the longer you delay fundamentals, the longer you’ll be stuck.

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