Beyond the Stick Figure Art School is an online art program for the entire family. You will receive access to step-by-step video lessons from a professional artist. The Drawing Course contains over sixty lessons! Each video is around 3-5 minutes long and contains helpful tips and easy-to-understand instructions.
There are three bonus courses you will receive with the Complete Drawing Course. The first is Pen and Ink. This course has fifteen lessons teaching you how to draw using a marker and paper. The next is Watercolor, which has over fifty lessons! Then there is the Acrylic Course which has twenty-four lessons in painting with acrylics. Finally, there is the 3-D Design Course, which teaches you how to work with clay in thirty lessons.
When you purchase the Complete Drawing Course PLUS Three Bonus Courses, you receive lifetime access. The courses have a value of $1445, but you can receive them all for $370, or 10 payments of $37.
We have been using the drawing courses in our homeschool several times a week. The first lessons were all about shapes, which is an important concept for an artist to understand. We sometimes watched two videos and did two projects a day at first as the lessons moved pretty slowly. About halfway through, the instruction picked up and we went back to one lesson a day.
The teacher is very soft-spoken, and we had issues with not being able to hear her very well. I had my volume turned up all the way on my computer and we had to strain to hear her. I tried the videos on my phone to see if it was just my computer, and I had the same problem on my phone. I felt this was important to point out in case your or your child have difficulty hearing.
We haven't gotten through all of the drawing lessons yet, but we are more than halfway finished with them. I am excited to get to the pen and ink and watercolor lessons, as well as the acrylic lessons.
My kids enjoy the lessons, but they do wish they were drawing more than just shapes and flowers, which is what we have mainly been doing. The drawing lessons are all culminating into one final project, which is a flower drawing.
Their favorite lesson was probably the one where they had to draw with all of the shapes they learned - the circle, the dot, the curved line, and the straight line. It was fun to make these abstract drawing and color them in! Even my 17 year old daughter joined them for this one and did a great job herself!
Mercie - 12 years old
One of the only things that is frustrating about this course is that you have to go in order. You have to mark each lesson "complete" before moving on to the next lesson. You can't skip ahead to, say, the acrylic course without first completing the drawing, pen and ink, and watercolor courses. I really wish you had the option to go to whichever course you wanted to, in whichever order you want to. I understand that this is because the lessons build on each other, but I would like to do the acrylic course myself and am having to wait until we finish everything else first. I could go through and mark each lesson "complete", but that would be very time-consuming.
You do need to buy some supplies to complete each section. For the drawing course you will need Prismacolor markers and a sketchpad. She has you cut regular paper into fourths, which is a great idea (I don't know why I've never thought of this before)! If the kids make a mistake and want to start over, they're not wasting an entire sheet of paper. Also it's less intimidating to try to fill a fourth of a sheet of paper than an entire sheet or even half a sheet.
Silas - 9 years old
Titus - 7 years old
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