A Comprehensive, Self-Paced Online Drawing Course
Learn to see. Strengthen your tools. Build your confidence. Paint anything.
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Every Time You Pick Up a Brush, You Are Drawing.
Drawing is the foundation of painting, and learning to draw with confidence begins with learning how to see.
For many artists, drawing can feel intimidating. The fear of getting it wrong can make even a simple subject seem complicated. But drawing doesn’t have to be a mystery, and you don’t have to rely on guesswork.
You can learn to see.
You can learn to measure.
You can master the skills that lead to successful drawing.
In Color Relativity Fundamentals: Drawing, Kami Mendlik shares her approachable yet comprehensive method for learning to draw from life.
Through clear, step-by-step instruction, Kami breaks the drawing process into understandable principles that you can practice, apply, and ultimately master.
What You'll Learn
By completing Color Relativity FUNDAMENTALS: Drawing, you’ll develop a strong foundation in observational drawing—learning not only what to look for, but how to see, measure, and accurately draw what is in front of you.
DRAWING
Drawing from observation: Learn to accurately see and measure scale, proportion, perspective, angles, ellipses, symmetry, and spatial relationships.
Measuring from life: Use a paintbrush handle as a measuring tool to compare visual relationships without relying on a ruler.
Scale & proportion: Establish accurate height-to-width relationships through comparative measuring.
Kami’s Drawing Recipe: Learn a practical, repeatable strategy for constructing a proportional box around your subject and establishing its overall dimensions.
Perspective & angles: Recognize one-point and two-point perspective and learn to accurately observe and drop angles.
Ellipses & symmetry: Learn to see and draw balanced, symmetrical forms.
Center line of gravity: Understand the balance, weight, and orientation of an object.
Multiple-object compositions: Establish accurate proportions and spatial relationships between objects.
Drawing for painting: Apply these fundamental skills to individual objects, still life compositions, landscapes, and ultimately every brushstroke.
Learn Not Just How to Draw, But How to See
Successful drawing begins with observation.
At the heart of Kami’s teaching is a practical method for seeing and measuring the relationships in front of you.
Using a paintbrush handle as a measuring tool, you’ll learn to compare height to width, establish scale and proportion, recognize perspective, and accurately observe and drop angles.
Kami’s step-by-step Drawing Recipe gives you a repeatable process for breaking down what you see and constructing an accurate drawing. Through clear demonstrations and instructional graphics, concepts that can feel intimidating become understandable, observable, and applicable.
And these skills extend far beyond the exercises in this course.
A tree, a mountain, a building, a still life—every subject becomes more approachable when you know how to see and measure it.
The goal is not simply to complete a drawing. It is to develop the understanding and confidence to approach any subject without fear.
Experience a Lesson from Fundamentals
See what it’s like to learn with Kami.
Step inside the course with a full sample lesson and experience Kami’s approach to teaching you how to see—not simply what to paint.
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The Drawing Curriculum
Color Relativity Fundamentals: Drawing includes the complete Drawing portion of the Color Relativity Fundamentals Complete Course, along with the foundational Materials & Setup chapters included with every course option.
These are the same chapters and lessons included in the Complete Course, offered separately as Part One of the Fundamentals progression.
Fundamentals is designed to be taken in order. Drawing establishes the observational skills and understanding that Value & Form and Color build upon.
PART ONE · DRAWING
Chapter 3 — Drawing
Introduction to Drawing — Explore Kami’s philosophy of drawing and learn to see through observation.
Drawing a Cube: Scale, Proportion & Perspective — Learn Kami’s Drawing Recipe while developing accuracy in scale, proportion, perspective, and angles.
Creating an Ellipse Box — Learn to construct and measure objects with elliptical forms.
Drawing Symmetry — Develop accuracy by seeing and comparing symmetrical relationships.
Drawing a Bowl — Apply observational measuring skills to a rounded form.
The Center Line of Gravity — Learn to recognize the balance, weight, and orientation of an object.
Multiple-Object Compositions — Establish accurate proportions and spatial relationships between multiple objects.
Drawing for Painting — Apply your drawing skills to painting, from composition to every brushstroke.
MATERIALS & SETUP INCLUDED
ONE FOUNDATION · ONE PROGRESSION
Drawing Is Where the Fundamentals Begin.
Color Relativity Fundamentals is designed as a progressive approach to learning—each part building upon the understanding developed before it.
DRAWING → VALUE & FORM → COLOR
Drawing develops the observational skills that become the foundation for understanding value, light, form, and ultimately color.
Begin with Drawing and continue through the progression at your own pace, or experience the complete Fundamentals program from beginning to end.
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Is Drawing Right for You?
Color Relativity Fundamentals: DRAWING s designed for artists at every stage who want to strengthen the foundation beneath their work.
This course is for you if you:
• Want to learn drawing from the beginning
• Feel intimidated or uncertain when drawing from life
• Struggle with scale, proportion, perspective, or spatial relationships
• Want greater accuracy in your paintings
• Want a repeatable process rather than relying on guesswork
• Are an experienced artist who wants to strengthen foundational skills
Drawing With Confidence
You don’t need to begin this course knowing how to draw.
You need curiosity, a willingness to observe, and the patience to practice.
Kami’s approach takes the mystery out of drawing by breaking the process into clear, understandable steps. Rather than relying on instinct or guesswork, you’ll develop a practical way to approach what you see and work through a drawing with greater understanding and confidence.
As you learn to see and measure more accurately, uncertainty begins to give way to understanding—and drawing becomes less intimidating.
Learn the fundamentals. Master the skills. Experience success. Draw with confidence.
How the Course Works
Self-Paced Online Learning
Move through the lessons and exercises on your own schedule.
Two Years of Access
Return to the lectures, demonstrations, and exercises throughout your access period.
Watch · Practice · Apply
Watch Kami explain and demonstrate each principle, then practice the exercises yourself to develop your understanding.
A Progressive Approach
Each lesson builds intentionally upon the understanding developed before it, creating a clear path from foundational observation to drawing with greater confidence.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Learn With Kami Mendlik
American Impressionist painter, author, and educator Kami Mendlik has spent decades studying the relationship between drawing, value, light, form, and color.
Her teaching is grounded in the belief that painting begins with learning how to see. Rather than teaching students to simply copy what she does, Kami breaks complex visual concepts into understandable principles that artists can observe, practice, and apply to their own work.
Color Relativity Fundamentals brings that progressive teaching approach together in a comprehensive online program designed to give artists the understanding and tools to continue growing independently.
Choose How You Want to Begin
The Fundamentals program can be taken as individual parts or experienced as one complete progressive course.
DRAWING
Part One of Color Relativity Fundamentals
Build the observational foundation of your painting practice by learning to see, measure, and draw accurately from life.
BEGIN WITH DRAWING
COMPLETE FUNDAMENTALS
Drawing · Value & Form · Color
Experience Kami’s complete progressive approach—from the foundations of seeing and drawing through value, light, form, and color.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. The course is completely self-paced, with no required meeting times or deadlines. You can move through the lessons on a schedule that works for you.
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Learn to See. Learn to Measure. Draw With Confidence.
Drawing is where the Color Relativity Fundamentals progression begins—and the foundation for every painting that follows.
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