How to Draw: Sketch & Trace

New: trace with your camera. 250 drawings that draw themselves step by step, from your first circle to a portrait, in a two-year course. First month free.

Really learn to draw, from scratch, with a complete two-year course. Every drawing draws itself in front of you, step by step: guides first, then the line, shading last. You follow along on your own paper.

All you need is a pencil, an eraser and a sheet of paper.

HOW IT WORKS • Before each step you see in red what is about to be drawn; then the pencil traces it and the eraser rubs out the guides. • Pause, go back or scrub through the stroke at your own pace. • Trace with the camera: prop your phone on a glass or a few books and the drawing appears over your paper, step by step, so you can go over it in pencil. • Fifteen minutes a day is enough: short lessons, a daily streak and a different warm-up every day. • From memory: review drawings without looking at the steps to fix them in your hand. • Your sketchbook: save a photo of each of your drawings and watch yourself improve month by month. • On iPhone Duo, the drawing and the steps sit on either side of the fold: half open on the table, the drawing stands up and the instructions lie within reach.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN (144 lessons, 250 drawings) Year one: lines, circles and ellipses; drawing with shapes; volume (cube, cylinder, sphere, cone); light and shadow with hatching and a value scale; textures; still life; one and two-point perspective; trees, flowers and landscapes; animals; eyes, nose, lips and facial proportions; and a full portrait.

Plus collections to practise each technique: 24 vases, bottles and lamps; 16 fruits; 36 cute animals; 14 foods with a face; 20 stickers (rocket, castle, robot…); 12 characters; 16 flowers and plants; 16 objects and houses in perspective; 12 trees and landscapes; and 16 sea creatures and bugs.

Year two: body proportions and the mannequin, gesture and movement, hands and feet, clothing and folds, expressions, horses and birds in flight, skies and forests, skyscrapers in three-point perspective, characters (robot, chibi, monster), ink drawing with hatching and stippling, composition and the rule of thirds, and a final urban sketch.

WHO IT IS FOR For anyone who has never drawn and thinks they "can't", and for those who draw and want solid foundations: perspective, shading and the human figure. Real pencil on real paper, and camera tracing when you want to loosen up your hand.

PRICE The first month is free, with five complete drawings. The whole course unlocks with a single payment, no subscription, and works with Family Sharing.

PRIVACY Dibujos collects no data. Your progress and photos stay on your device.