{"id":5934,"date":"2020-07-20T10:41:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:30:36","slug":"what-are-the-art-fundamentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/what-are-the-art-fundamentals\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the art fundamentals?"},"content":{"rendered":"Many of the accomplished artists I\u2019ve interviewed throughout the years have emphasized practicing art fundamentals: the key building block components for your drawings.\n\nThe specific fundamentals vary slightly depending on what you\u2019re drawing: environments, characters or objects, but one thing they all have in common is <strong>structure<\/strong>. Sound structure means how solid feeling, how real and three dimensional is the thing you\u2019re drawing.\n\nIn this video, I\u2019ll show you a simple technique I use to make sure my drawings have good structure and I\u2019ll give you some tips on how to choose good teachers and mentors to make sure you are learning the fundamentals from the right people.\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g4DieVnUELk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<h1>About Bobby Chiu<\/h1>\nBobby\u2019s\u00a0art career started at the age of two with a box of crayons and his family\u2019s white living room walls. He got his first professional art job at the age of seventeen, designing Disney, Warner Bros., and Star Wars toys. Bobby has since won a number of awards for his creative work, including an Emmy.\u00a0He presently works in concept and character design, teaches digital painting online at Schoolism.com, publishes art books, and works on other top secret projects that we\u2019re not allowed to talk about.\n\nBobby currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. He loves to meditate, read non-fiction, and ponder life. There are still lots of doodles on his desk and walls.\n<h1>External Links<\/h1>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCKfG25IfoxX8AT0JjmG2H0Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/digitalbobert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolism.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Schoolism<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When working on our art, we hear this word all the time, but what does it actually mean? In this video, I talk about what SPECIFICALLY is fundamental to your art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2325],"tags":[761,299,316,762,697,763,297,764,765],"class_list":["post-5934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-to-school","tag-art-principles","tag-bobby-chiu","tag-color-theory","tag-composition","tag-fundamentals","tag-lighting","tag-painting","tag-schoolism","tag-structure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934","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=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}