An Overview of Rendering Techniques with Chris Legaspi

Professional illustrator Chris Legaspi teaches you a variety of techniques for rendering your drawings and paintings in this thorough beginner-friendly course. Whether you are working in pencil, conté, charcoal, watercolor or oils this course will help give you ideas and approaches that you can use to help develop your own personal rendering style.

1. Rendering Techniques | Part 1: Graphite

In this series, instructor Chris Legaspi will share with you various ways to render your drawings, using a variety of different materials. In this first lesson of the series, Chris starts with the most basic material, graphite, and shows you how you can use this simple tool to render your drawings beautifully.

2. Rendering Techniques | Part 2: Ballpoint Pen

In this series, instructor Chris Legaspi will share with you various ways to render your drawings, using a variety of different materials. In this second lesson of the series, Chris uses a tool familiar to all of us, but not often thought of as one for rendering your drawings: a simple ballpoint pen.

3. Rendering Techniques | Part 3: Carbothello and Charcoal Pencil

In this series, instructor Chris Legaspi will share with you various ways to render your drawings, using a variety of different materials. In this third lesson of the series, Chris will show you some simple rendering techniques using Carbothello and charcoal pencils. Chris will demonstrate using photo reference of male portrait, female nude, and female portrait.

4. Rendering Techniques | Part 4: Red Conté

In this series, instructor Chris Legaspi will share with you various ways to render your drawings, using a variety of different materials. Chris uses his approachable, thorough teaching style to make the often-intimidating rendering stage accessible to artists of all levels. In this fourth lesson of the series, Chris will show you some simple rendering techniques using red conté pencil. Chris will demonstrate using photo reference of female portrait, male portrait, and a hand.

5. Rendering Techniques | Part 5: Willow Charcoal

In this series, instructor Chris Legaspi will share with you various ways to render your drawings, using a variety of different materials. Chris uses his approachable, thorough teaching style to make the often-intimidating rendering stage accessible to artists of all levels. In this fifth lesson of the series, Chris will show you some simple rendering techniques using willow charcoal. Chris will demonstrate using photo reference of a reclining male, standing female, and a standing male– all of which you can find attached to this page.

6. Rendering Techniques | Part 6: Prismacolor

In this series, instructor Chris Legaspi will share with you various ways to render your drawings, using a variety of different materials. Chris uses his approachable, thorough teaching style to make the often-intimidating rendering stage accessible to artists of all levels. In this sixth lesson of the series, Chris uses the Prismacolor Verithin and Premiere pencils to demonstrate various cross-hatching and tonal mark-making techniques. Chris will demonstrate using photo reference of a female portrait, standing male, and a male hand– all of which you can find attached to this page.

7. Rendering Techniques | Part 7: Toned Paper

Instructor Chris Legaspi shares various ways to render your drawings, using a variety of different materials. Chris uses his approachable, thorough teaching style to make the often-intimidating rendering stage accessible to artists of all levels. In this lesson, Chris utilizes Prismacolor pencils and toned paper in three demonstrations from reference.

8. Rendering Techniques | Part 8: Watercolor

Instructor Chris Legaspi shares various ways to render your drawings and paintings, using a variety of different materials. Chris uses his approachable, thorough teaching style to make the often-intimidating rendering stage accessible to artists of all levels. In this lesson he tackles the often frustrating medium of watercolor. First he introduces the materials and basic concepts of “alla prima” painting, meaning “at first attempt” in Italian. He’ll show you how to harness the bleeding and soaking tendencies of the paint and water to adjust your composition and be cautious with your application. He does one demonstration of a figure model from photo reference, which you can find attached to this page.

9. Rendering Techniques | Part 9: Oil Painting

Instructor Chris Legaspi shares various ways to render your drawings and paintings, using a variety of different materials. Chris uses his approachable, thorough teaching style to make the often-intimidating rendering stage accessible to artists of all levels. In this lesson, he shows the ease with which you can “draw” with paint. As he pushes and removes his medium around with paper towel, treating the thick oil paint a lot like charcoal, you’ll learn that oil paints aren’t as daunting as they seem. Chris does two demonstrations from reference, of a hand and a male head. Find the references attached to this page.