Here is a video overview of the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq5pXZ-FeR4
NOTE: If you have trouble with the course telling you to log in when you are already logged in, try clearing the cache (Google it if you don’t know how), or switching to another browser. This is problem is infrequent and apparently quite random, so it is hard to diagnose what is going on. I will be contacting the software company to see if they have any suggestions.
This course teaches you to draw the world from scratch (blank paper).
You will need to download the book before you begin the video drawing lessons.
The PDF book has three basic parts:
- History Lessons that provide a historical context for each drawing lesson.
- Drawing lessons in a step-by-step format
- Supplemental activities that include printable worksheets, board games, art and craft ideas, and group game
MATERIALS NEEDED: There is a materials list at the beginning of the book.
Additionally, there is a YouTube playlist that goes along with this curriculum, providing high-quality video supplements that will enhance learning. The playlist is found at the Basement Workshop channel:
www.YouTube.com/TheBasementWorkshop
If the Mapping the World playlist is not showing, click on “SHOW MORE PLAYLISTS.” Don’t worry- it is there somewhere! YouTube just doesn’t always make it easy to find things.
Here are a few videos giving you technique tips that might help with some of the projects in the activity section of the book:
Gluing Demo (Since I made this video, Elmer’s glue has changed its formula and won’t do what I demo in this video. I now order white PVA glue from Amazon.uk.)
Scoring Demo (Scoring along fold lines on craft projects is worth the time and effort, as you get nice, crisp folds.)
Modules
Mapping the World with Art
Lessons
- Drawing 1: Mesopotamia
- Drawing 2: The Nile River Free Preview
- Drawing 3: Greece Free Preview
- Drawing 4: The Roman Boot Free Preview
- Drawing 5A: The “Holy Land” Free Preview
- Drawing 5B: The Arabian peninsula Free Preview
- Drawing 6A: The Black Sea Free Preview
- Drawing 6B: The Caspian Sea Free Preview
- Drawing 6C: The Aral Sea Free Preview
- Drawing 7: The Iberian peninsula Free Preview
- Drawing 8A: France Free Preview
- Drawing 8B: Adding France to the Iberian peninsula Free Preview
- Drawing 9: India
- Drawing 10: The Greater Antilles
- Drawing 11: The Lesser Antilles
- Drawing 12A: The Isle of Britain
- Drawing 12B: Newfoundland
- Drawing 13: Africa Free Preview
- Drawing 14: Central American and Caribbean Free Preview
- Drawing 15: South America Free Preview
- Drawing 16: Southeast Asia basics
- Drawing 17: The Malay Archipelago
- Drawing 18A: The Magellan Strait
- Drawing 18B: The Philippines
- Drawing 19: Eastern coast of North America
- Drawing 20: The Gulf of St. Lawrence and Labrador
- Drawing 21: The West Coast of America
- Drawing 22: Scandinavia
- Drawing 23A: The Low Countries
- Drawings 23A and 23B: Ireland and Iceland
- Drawing 24A: Greenland
- Drawing 24B: Baffin Island
- Drawing 24C: Hudson Bay
- Drawing 25: Japan
- Drawing 26A: Australia
- Drawing 26B: New Zealand
- Drawing 27A: Alaska Free Preview
- Drawing 27B: Kamchatka peninsula
- Drawing 28A: Conical projection (North America)
- Drawing 28A: Mercator projection (North America) Free Preview
- Drawing 28B: The top of Asia
- Drawing 29A: New Ireland, New Britain and the Solomon Islands
- Drawing 29B: Hawaii
- Drawing 29C: Tahiti
- Drawing 29D: Vanuatu
- Drawings 29E and 29F: Fiji and New Caledonia
- Drawing 29G: The Pacific Islands
- Drawing 30: Antarctica