{"id":1469,"date":"2019-04-22T22:20:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T22:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:21:31","slug":"get-started-drawing-with-this-mini-illustration-course-from-rapid-fire-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/get-started-drawing-with-this-mini-illustration-course-from-rapid-fire-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Started Drawing with This Mini Illustration Course from Rapid Fire Art"},"content":{"rendered":"Darlene Nguyen from\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/rapidfireart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapid Fire Art<\/a> has been churning out drawing tutorials in er... a rapid fire way, so we thought we'd start compiling them into a <em><strong>Mini Drawing cours<\/strong><\/em><strong>e <\/strong>that teaches you how to draw the human face. Darlene's clear step-by-step explanations show how to achieve results quickly and easily, and is a great resource for mastering the basics or getting a quick brush up on your illustration techniques.\u00a0 While most of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RapidFireArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapid Fire Art YouTube<\/a> tutorials use analog techniques, Darlene has recently starting expanding into digital art and uses a variety of Wacom gear including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wacom.com\/en-us\/products\/pen-displays\/wacom-cintiq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wacom Cintiq 16<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wacom.com\/en-us\/products\/pen-displays\/wacom-cintiq-pro-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wacom Cintiq Pro 16<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wacom.com\/en-us\/products\/pen-tablets\/wacom-intuos-pro-paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wacom Intuos Pro paper edition<\/a>.\u00a0 Whether you're doing digital art or working with pen and paper, Darlene's tutorials will teach you something new and interesting.\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>How to Draw Eyes\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3xa2ZdEZzY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<h2>How to Draw a Nose from the Side<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-4TYp3ukY8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<h2>How to Draw Ears<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o5q2-VmI-30\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<h2>Quick Tips for Drawing Lips<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjzB1qIvVkk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<h2>How to Draw a Happy Expression\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j2oVroYZGi4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<h2>How to Draw an Angry Expression\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jakj8ZrRjWM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">&lt;\/ifra me&gt;\n<h2>How to Draw a Sad Expression<\/h2>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDwSC-207r0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/iframe><\/h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>How to Draw a Sad Expression<\/h2>\n<h2><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDwSC-207r0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<h2>How to Draw an Excited or Surprised Expression<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EGj3-biKGD4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<h2>How to Draw a 3\/4 Face<\/h2>\n<h2><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8G4D9cKZ4Cs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n&nbsp;\n<h2>Bonus: How to Draw and Design Faces on Wacom Intuos Pro paper edition<\/h2>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nsgAxZ2-zl8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>About Darlene Nguyen and Rapid Fire Art<\/h2>\nAs s<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1001 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2019\/02\/darlene-nguyen.jpg\" alt=\"Darlene Nguyen\" width=\"200\" height=\"197\" title=\"\">omeone who struggled during her school years, Darlene was determined to find a more effective way of teaching. She launched her website. <a href=\"https:\/\/rapidfireart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapid Fire Art<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDQNp22J8fGKdMytv0s3Zgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a> with the goal of helping equip beginning artists with all the resources they needed to learn the skill of drawing without having to scour the internet for bits and pieces of tutorials or fork over buckets of cash. Darlene\u2019s detailed step-by-step drawing tutorials are actually a valuable resource for all artists \u2013 from beginner to seasoned pro. Her fun and clear tutorials help beginning artists quickly develop their basic skills, while more seasoned artists benefit from a quick refresher course on topics like realistic drawing and shading, drawing with perfect proportions or drawing what you see.\n\n&nbsp;\n<h2>External Links<\/h2>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RapidFireArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rapidfireart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/RapidFireArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patreon<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2317,2338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-drawing-painting","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}