The Comprehensive Drawing Training Course. A total of 550 minutes of instructions and demonstration, develop strong foundational skills through a structured, step-by-step process.
The 5-Step Classical Drawing Method with Yim Mau-Kun is a comprehensive, structured training program that follows time-honored techniques used by classical artists.
This method is designed to help you build a strong foundation, refine your techniques, and develop confidence in your drawing skills.
Learn to analyze proportions, perspective, and value using plaster cast studies.
Strengthen your understanding of light, shadow, and structure.
Develop a keen sense of form and spatial relationships.
Learn how to depict objects with realistic shape, texture, and depth.
Master the structure of the human head with a focus on planes and proportions.
Learn how to capture expressions and build realistic features.
Refine your ability to draw realistic portraits with depth and personality.
Learn composition techniques to enhance the visual impact of your artwork.
Gain confidence in drawing the human form with accurate proportions and anatomy.
Understand muscle structures, movement, and gesture to create dynamic figures.
What’s Inside the Course
5 In-Depth Step-by-Step Demonstrations Video Lessons (Over 9 Hours of Training)
English Subtitles for Every Lesson
Lifetime Access to All Course Materials
Bonus: 5 Sets of Downloadable Step-by-Step Portrait Drawing Process Images
By the end of this course, you will have a strong foundation in classical drawing techniques, allowing you to confidently create stunning, realistic artwork.
Yim Mau-Kun is a globally respected master artist known for his expertise across multiple art genres, including still life, landscape, portraiture, and figure drawing.
A Master of Traditional & Modern Techniques
Trained in classical art but with a unique contemporary touch, Yim Mau-Kun’s method bridges tradition and innovation.
Decades of Teaching & Artistic Excellence
With years of experience teaching students worldwide, his structured approach simplifies even the most complex drawing concepts.
A Passion for Helping Artists Grow
His goal is not just to teach drawing but to help students see and think like an artist, leading to true artistic mastery.
This course distills his lifetime of knowledge into a structured, easy-to-follow learning experience—one that you won’t find anywhere else!
Yim’s drawings are full of depth. This depth is the depth of human beings in general…His drawings are not only depiction but also deep thoughts. And during his painting process, he achieves greater and greater depth like a sculptor carving deeper and deeper into the wood.
Vice President of Association of Chinese Artists
"It’s only recently that I have become aware of the artist Mau-Kun Yim. We have not met, yet I feel that I know the man. Through his numerous handsomely illustrated texts, he reveals himself to be a craftsman of surpassing ability and sensibility. The years of classical training and diligent study – as in the works of the masters that came before – resonate in his virtuosity and boldness of handling. He is a dedicated and selfless teacher – he is a man in love with his calling.”
The drawing method represents ‘Russian Structure Analysis’ which shows solidity of forms, hi-degree of observation. This is combined with Yim Mau Kun’s impressionistic approach which merged the structural analysis with emotional response to reality with refined aesthetic standards.
There has been a resurgence in interest in rigorous academic art training in traditional drawing and painting techniques, and in studying with a master to learn how to draw and paint with accuracy with an emphasis on observation, theory and craft, while creating works of classical and contemporary beauty. These videos by Yim Mau-kun are a window into the studio of one such master, an experienced and award winning artist and educator who can trace his artistic lineage back to Chinese Social Realism and Soviet Socialist Realism, and to the tradition of great Russian Portrait painters like Kramskoy, Serov, Repin, and Fechin
What I like about the video is that Yim Mau-Kim offers a wonderful and effective demonstration on how to do a structural drawing in the Russian Academic Tradition. He demonstrates how to effectively execute a portrait lay-in, but shows you how to keep the structure very lose, so that placement and proportions can be changed later. This is started with long straight lines, and gradually builds up to a beautiful description of the model through ongoing consideration of anatomy, proportion, and perspective. He shows you how revisions can be made right up to the very end of the blocking-in process. The sense of looseness in the second lay-in was really quite beautiful. This is also the key for a foundation of good painting
Includes lifetime access to all video lessons and course materials.
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