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Form From Imagination: Premium Edition + Instructor Feedback

It's time to master form. Get ready to experience your art in a whole new way.

What you'll get:

  • Lifetime access to 50+ video lessons
  • 30+ page assignment book
  • Access to the exclusive FFI Community for instructor feedback, sharing work, and peer review
  • Quizzes
  • Hi-res scans of demo drawings
  • All future updates and revisions to Form From Imagination
  • Five more tutorials:
    • Transformational Anatomy: The Arm (5+ hours of content)
    • Transformational Anatomy: The Leg (5+ hours of content)
    • Secrets of Shading (5 hours of content)
    • Essential Exercises for Beginners  (3.5+ hours of content)
    • Harpy Extended Demo (5+ hours of content)

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Form From Imagination

  1. Course Introduction

    3 lessons
    1. Welcome! How to Use This Course
    2. What is Form?
    3. What is Imagination?

  2. Materials Overview / What Your Pencil Can Do

    3 lessons
    1. Materials Overview
    2. What Your Pencil Can Do
    3. Doing these Exercises Digitally

  3. Basics of Light and Modeling Factors

    9 lessons

    1. The Nature of Light

      1. The Nature of Light- Types of Light
      2. The Nature of Light- Diffuse Reflection
      3. The Nature of Light- Specular Reflection
      4. Nature of Light Quiz

    2. The Modeling Factors

      1. Modeling Factors- Sphere
      2. Modeling Factors- Cube
      3. Modeling Factors- Cylinder and Others
      4. Modeling Factor Value Chain of Assessment (from Design Fundamentals course)
      5. Modeling Factors Quiz

  4. Drawing Geometric Forms

    21 lessons

    1. Basic Geometric Forms

      1. Sphere - Front Lit
      2. Sphere - Back Lit
      3. Cube - Front Lit
      4. Perspective Crash Course- Cube Constructions With Shadows
      5. Cylinder - Front Lit
      6. Basic Geometric Forms Quiz

    2. Textured Forms

      1. Texture Discussion
      2. Handling Textures Digitally
      3. Textured Sphere
      4. Textured Cylinder
      5. Creative Sphere
      6. Textured Forms Quiz

    3. Combined Geometric Forms

      1. Sphere Group - Local Light
      2. Compound Forms - Compound Block
      3. Compound Forms - Creative
      4. Value at the Form Shadow/Cast Shadow Intersection
      5. Combined Geometry - Quick Sketching
      6. Combined Geometry - Rendering
      7. Combined Geometric Forms Quiz

    4. Still Lifes

      1. Still Life - Geo Forms
      2. Still Life - Creative

  5. Drawing Organic Form

    17 lessons

    1. Combined Organic Geometry

      1. Combined Geometry - Rounded Geo
      2. Rounded Geometry in Digital
      3. Combined Geometry - Relaxed
      4. Organic Forms - Abstract
      5. Combined Organic Geometry Quiz

    2. Simplifying Complex Organic Forms

      1. Block Heads - Introduction and Render
      2. Block Heads - Celebrities
      3. Block Heads - Portraits
      4. Organic Forms - Details
      5. TV Heads Exercise
      6. Simplifying Complex Organic Forms Quiz

    3. Understanding Primary Shapes

      1. Primary Shapes - Introduction
      2. Primary Shapes - Natural Sketching
      3. Primary Shapes - Toy Characters

    4. Local Values on Forms

      1. Local Values - Introduction and Bean
      2. Local Values - Cube
      3. Local Values - Portrait

  6. Designing Form: Imagination Tips and Principles

    12 lessons
    1. Bad Shape, Bad Form
    2. Detailed Areas Vs. Open Areas
    3. Drive the Silhouette Inside
    4. Form and Void
    5. Value Structure Leads Design
    6. Internal Value Change
    7. Light Position
    8. Further Reflections on Reflections
    9. Shape Design For Form
    10. Redesigning The Terminator Redesigns the Form
    11. Variety of Form Rolls
    12. Transition to Color

  7. Creative Demos

    2 lessons
    1. Corrupted Knight
    2. Meat Bag

Premium Bonus Content

  1. Secrets of Shading

    8 lessons
    1. Part 1- Light on Sphere
    2. Part 2- Point and Soft Lights
    3. Part 3- Light on Lozenge
    4. Part 4- Light on Organic Shapes
    5. Part 5- Tentacle Demo 1
    6. Part 6- Tentacle Demo 2
    7. Part 7- Two Arm Demos
    8. Part 8- Full Figure

  2. Essential Exercises for Beginner Artists

    8 lessons
    1. Introduction
    2. Box Men Exercise
    3. Box Men Scenes
    4. Real Room From Memory
    5. Creating Textures
    6. Emoji Expressions
    7. Form Design- Vases
    8. Bonus- Refining Room From Memory

  3. Harpy Extended Edition

    9 lessons
    1. Introduction
    2. Materials
    3. The Sketch
    4. Head Forms
    5. Torso Forms
    6. Limb Forms
    7. Textures
    8. Special Effects and Final Fixes
    9. Bonus- Creating Textures From Beginner Exercises

  4. Transformational Anatomy 1: The Arm

    8 lessons
    1. Intro
    2. Basics
    3. Thick Arms 1
    4. Thick Arms 2
    5. Thin Arms
    6. Alien Arm
    7. Plant Arm
    8. Magma Arm

  5. Transformational Anatomy 2: The Leg

    9 lessons
    1. Introduction - How to Study References Part 1
    2. How To Study References Part 2
    3. Thin Legs
    4. Strong Legs
    5. Heavy Legs
    6. Thin Legs Transformed
    7. Strong Legs Transformed
    8. Heavy Legs Transformed
    9. Tips for Designing Using Leg Anatomy