I liked. It a lot. All instructions were very clear and easy to follow

The title is misleading compared to some of the other courses on SVS that teach drawing from the ground up like Jake Parker's "How to Draw Everything" course - the course is mainly a seminar in drawing from reference images rather than fundamentals of drawing these things from scratch. The tips and commentary are still useful practical information, as is watching the demonstration of his process, but some of the paired topics are imbalanced as well. For example "Hands and Feet" demonstrates 20 minutes of drawing hand reference but only 2 minutes of drawing foot reference, while "Cloth and Hair" was primarily drawing cloth with a small amount of hair in the reference photo.

This is a very good course about how to start a good drawing. Just don't expect it to be a step-by-step guide of how to make a finished, cool-looking picture of a subject you like. It's about how to capture shapes and make a good structure for a drawing, which is well explained, but you have to be patient and not expect to produce master works after your first exercises. There's plenty of insight on other topics too if you listen carefully to the explanations and try to relate it to what's happening in the video. I would recommend this course as a mandatory first step in learning how to draw.

I'm super beginner and this was very helpful :D

I was expecting more on basics being explained and demonstrated.

As a beginner, found the information in the course very useful. The focus of ‘general to specific’ is the area in which I really need to practice, learning to set the foundation of a sketch accurately before diving in to the detail. Thanks Dave! - brill-

I really enjoyed the course and thought the suggestion of breaking things down into large, then medium and finally smaller detailed shapes was very helpful when drawing from reference (or any time in general). I was definitely the person who would try to start with the intricacies first and then end up with a picture that was off in all the proportions so this has helped me big time.

David is methodical and patient throughout his creation of portraits. Thank you for sharing with us. I learned so much and inspired for my drawings, too.

The course is not bad, present some nice tips to draw things from observation. However, the title is a bit misleading: I actually thought I was going to have a crunch course with fundamentals like perspective, construction, composition, etc.

They were great tutorials for beginners, however I had to speed up the videos because he was slow at explaining.

Basically teaches you how to break stuff down better and genuinely teaches the FUNDAMENTALS no lie, straight to the point. I'm 16 and am taking lessons here with my parents and I drew a really wicked tiger within the first lesson and it was only 20 minutes!

Extremely helpful and much appreciated. Thank you

These videos well help you if your new or stuck drawing anything.

This course is perfect for artists with drawing experience who wants to review the basics. It focuses on simplifying complex subjects into basic shapes and getting the proportions right. This was my first course on SVS and really happy with it! I did the workbook exercises, applied the advices and got results very quickly. Really appreciate the quality of the work too. Thanks Dave!