Have you ever picked up a pencil with the urge to draw what you see, only to be stymied when you misplaced or distorted the features of your subject?
Have you ever pursued traditional art instruction but found yourself put off by the emphasis on laborious, error-prone measurements?
How many times have you been urged to “draw what you see, not what you think you see,” or to shade by “following the form,” only to feel confused, discouraged, and frustrated?
Have there ever been days when you felt like you could draw—only to be followed by others when nothing worked, when every mark you made felt off in a way you could sense but never explain?
If you’ve ever had the sense that drawing what you see should be easy and natural, make no mistake—you’re right. There is a way of drawing that feels effortless and natural, and that brings with it an expansive feeling of joy.
The Conscious and Subconscious Mind
It all starts with a proper understanding of the conscious and subconscious mind.
The conscious mind is the seat of intention. It sets the intention to draw—both the drawing as a whole and each of the marks that make it up.
The subconscious mind is the doer.
It responds to intention instantly and gives perfect feedback. It knows only the answer.
Your subconscious can guide you in marking off even the most complex or unusual proportions. It can guide you in placing the features of your subject correctly—even if it’s your first time drawing that subject. It can tell you exactly how much shading to add to a given area of your drawing. It can help you convey intricate, twisting forms, complex curvature, and subtle variations of depth.
And it can do all of this—easily, effortlessly, and naturally.
This course teaches you the language of the subconscious and gives you the tools, processes, and techniques needed to build a working rapport with it—your Inner Drawing Dynamo—so that you can channel this immense storehouse of power and experience the miracle of effortless drawing directly.
The Language of the Inner Drawing Dynamo
Your Inner Drawing Dynamo speaks in angles.
Whereas the brain often filters and distorts our perception of distance, angles can serve as a clear channel of communication between the conscious and subconscious mind.
There is therefore a world of difference between trying to fit a drawing together by measuring distances and fitting it together by perceiving angles.
The journey begins by learning how to set an intention to perceive an angle—and receive it in your hand.
You’ll then learn simple alignment gestures for engaging your subconscious mind to align along angles. Starting with simple subjects, and then progressing to more complex ones, you’ll apply the principle of triangulation to fit a drawing together—angle by angle—watching as it unfolds before your eyes.
Beyond Outlines: Building Form
But there’s more to drawing than making outlines.
While angles serve as the basis for outlining shapes, they can also be used in far more expressive ways—as the building blocks of form.
You’ll learn a simple gesture for crosshatching to shade a drawing, angling your hatch marks to suggest the intricacies of curvature and volume. Along the way, you’ll come to appreciate how crosshatching is, in essence, triangulation in three dimensions.
As your confidence grows, you’ll learn how to quickly establish the major and minor planes of your subject. You’ll then create a sense of unity and cohesion by applying the principle of parallel transport.
Seeing Light and Dark
And there’s still more.
Your Inner Drawing Dynamo is deeply attuned to the subtle variations of light and dark that make up your subject.
You’ll learn how to key your drawings to establish the areas of greatest light and dark. You’ll also learn a simple technique for querying your subconscious to determine the right amount of shading to apply in each area of your drawing.
Throughout This Drawing Course, You’ll:
Recognize and cultivate your gifts of intuitive perception
Learn simple alignment gestures that allow you to replicate straight lines, capture proportions, and place shapes—accurately, confidently, and effortlessly
Experience the power of intention, as you send clear commands to your subconscious mind and receive instant feedback
Awaken and surrender to the Drawing Dynamo Within, allowing the drawing to come through you of its own accord
Establish a sacred drawing ritual that grounds and centers you
Begin every drawing with a sense of poise and banish all fear of the blank page
Build the solid foundation you need to graduate to more advanced training in art—the foundation other courses presuppose or simply call talent
What You’ll Discover in These 9 Modules
Each session builds upon the previous one, guiding you into progressively deeper states of creative flow
Module 1
The Secret That Changes Everything
Many people struggle to draw, even after years of training and application. Many artists, moreover, can draw what they see only with great struggle and the aid of laborious measuring. Struggle, however, is unnecessary, for within each of us is an Inner Drawing Dynamo capable of effortless drawing—the subconscious. In this first module, you’ll receive the exact blueprint for transforming your relationship with your subconscious mind from an inner critic that relentlessly points out everything wrong with your drawing to a mighty, indispensable ally you can call upon for unfailing aid.
What makes drawing what you see so difficult for so many people, even many professionally trained artists
How the advice to draw what you see, not what you think you see, is misleading and frustrating
How your subconscious mind functions as the hidden gateway to effortless drawing
Why angles, rather than distances, serve as the bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind and are thus the natural tool for fitting a drawing together
How to set an intention to perceive an angle and receive immediate feedback from your subconscious mind—entering the feedback loop that is the foundation of creative flow
Simple practices to hone your drawing intuition
Module 2
Aligning Along Angles
In drawing, the most foundational skill is the ability to make marks along angles. This ability in turn makes it possible to replicate straight lines, and from straight lines spring complex contours and forms. You’ll learn just how easy it is to respond to an angle, capturing it in your hand and creating a rudder to serve as the basis for alignment. You’ll then learn simple gestures for initiating alignment and allowing the Drawing Dynamo Within to handle the details—effortlessly, elegantly, and with stunning accuracy.
How to effortlessly capture an angle in your hand
Simple alignment gestures for responding to and aligning along angles—eliminating the “offset” between your perception and your mark on the page
Techniques for replicating straight lines that don’t rely on perfect hand-eye coordination or a steady hand
How to break up a complex contour into a series of straight lines—the intuitive equivalent of calculus, performed naturally by your subconscious
How to perceive the endpoints of a straight line through intention and feedback, even when they are not explicitly marked
Module 3
First Steps in Triangulation
Every drawing, no matter how simple or complex, begins with two marks. To accurately convey the subject, all subsequent marks must be placed accurately in relation to these initial marks. Neither rigid nor abstract, triangulation gives us the practical and intuitive means of fitting a drawing together angle by angle and is the bridge between the conscious and subconscious mind.
Learn the principle of triangulation—from a natural and intuitive, rather than a mathematical perspective
Understand how triangulation inheres in every drawing method and is the unifying principle in drawing
Learn why the scale of a drawing—a choice made at the outset of the drawing process—is the only distance that matters, and why every subsequent mark can be placed using angles alone
Witness the miracle of triangulation unfold before your eyes, as you fit at first simple, then progressively more complex shapes together, angle by angle
Experience the flexibility and power of being able to start the same drawing in infinitely many ways
Set a micro-intention, receive visual feedback, and feel the flow state begin to emerge
Module 4
Short & Long Angles
The way you go about fitting angles together differs depending on whether you’re mapping out the overall shape and proportions of your subject or whether you’re focused on a particular area of a drawing. Short angles can be fitted together in quick succession using finger-based alignment gestures. Longer angles require greater finesse and understanding, yet they are the master key to unifying the different features of a subject.
Delve deeper into the concept of scale and how the choice of scale creates a distinction between short and long angles
Master advanced alignment gestures that naturally bring to bear the power of your entire arm, letting you draw easily and naturally from your shoulder
Learn when to apply different alignment techniques, depending on whether you’re aiming to establish placement and proportion or quickly convey small details
Tackle more advanced subjects, including portions of human and animal faces
Module 5
Advanced Triangulation
Equipped with the hands-on experience gained over the prior modules, you’re now ready to call upon your Drawing Dynamo Within to tackle far more ambitious and demanding subjects, including what many artists consider the most demanding subject of all: the human face. You’ll prove to yourself how even a beautiful and accurate portrait can arise effortlessly and naturally—almost of its own accord—from a blank page.
Demonstrate command and mastery of triangulation, as you efficiently read angles from photo reference and effortlessly draw even complex subjects—including pet and human portraits
Develop a sense of flow and fluidity, as you build more and more confidence in your intuitive drawing abilities
Surrender more and more of the drawing process to your Inner Drawing Dynamo
Discover anatomy through observation rather than relying on pre-memorized proportions or reference structures
Module 6
The Art of the Lay-In
Triangulation allows you to begin a drawing starting with any part of your subject. This module explores the different ways of beginning a drawing—otherwise known as the block-in or lay-in phase. For quick or casual drawings, you’ll learn simple techniques to establish key landmarks efficiently. For more elaborate drawings, you’ll practice the time-honored approach of working from big to small.
Learn different ways of starting off a drawing
Call upon your subconscious to create a lightning-fast freeform sketch to serve as the basis for a drawing
Discover the power of negative spaces for framing an image
Banish all remaining fear of the blank page
Plan out a drawing in advance, based on your requirements and desired results
Release the need for immediate accuracy and experience the joy of iterating on a drawing
Use the lay-in as a strategic entry point that confirms your composition—before you surrender fully to the subconscious flow
Module 7
Chiaroscuro
With this module, you move beyond the outline and into the dramatic world of light and shadow. Chiaroscuro—the art of exaggerating light and dark contrasts—is the key to drawings that leap off the page with striking three-dimensional impact. You’ll learn to establish a value scale calibrated to your medium and use muscle testing to query your subconscious for rapid, accurate decisions about which tones belong where.
Understand the essentials of light, dark, and value to shade a drawing effectively
Master a simple gesture for hatching straight lines to create patches of value
Build depth in your drawings by layering light patches of hatch marks upon one another
Learn the principle of Chiaroscuro and the importance of creating a strong separation of values
Learn how to create a value scale—whether 2-level, 3-level, or 5-level—calibrated to the capabilities of your specific medium
Use muscle testing to receive clear guidance from your subconscious about which value to choose for a specific area of a drawing
Module 8
Conveying Curvature and Volume
If triangulation is the language of 2D form, cross-hatching is its three-dimensional counterpart. Drawing on principles from differential geometry—translated into intuitive gesture—you’ll learn to convey volume, plane, and curvature through controlled rows of parallel lines. Your subconscious already performs these geometric calculations naturally; this module teaches you to trust that and let it flow.
Learn how cross-hatching creates the illusion of curvature and volume
Sculpt and create beautiful, flowing expressions of form that twist and merge intricately with one another
Understand how edges function as natural sources of curvature—providing the initial hatching angle your subconscious needs
Learn the secret of creating beautiful cross-contour lines by cutting into forms from different directions
Apply the principle of parallel transport to bring richness, depth, and unity to your cross-hatching
Bring together cross-hatching and Chiaroscuro to create simple, yet stunning illusions of depth
Immerse yourself in the joy of rendering, as you call upon your Inner Drawing Dynamo to create flow, depth, and richness
Module 9
Integration
In this culminating module, you’ll bring together triangulation, Chiaroscuro, and cross-hatching into a unified creative practice. Drawing becomes what it was always meant to be: a meditative cycle of conscious intention and subconscious response—a sacred feedback loop where you set an intention and watch it manifest through your hand.
Bring together all your newfound intuitive drawing techniques to create stunning pet and human portraits
Come to appreciate drawing as a process of manifestation—as a dance between conscious intention and subconscious feedback, made of innumerable small steps
Attain deeper meditative states while drawing, as you deepen your surrender to your Inner Drawing Dynamo
Establish a sacred drawing ritual that relaxes and revitalizes you
Step into the identity of the effortless draftsman—where the Inner Drawing Dynamo takes over and the act of drawing leaves you rejuvenated, not drained
The Joy of Effortless Drawing
Throughout this incredible journey, you’ll develop a deeper and deeper rapport with your subconscious mind. You’ll come to marvel at its power and ingenuity—and at your own capacity to tap into it.
You’ll experience deepening states of flow and creative bliss, as drawing becomes not merely a skill, but a sacred ritual in your life.
With decades of experience in both the practice and teaching of drawing, your instructor has developed a unique approach that bridges the conscious and subconscious mind. Rather than relying on laborious measurement or rote technique, this method taps into the extraordinary perceptual abilities you already possess.
This course distills years of insight into a clear, progressive journey—one that will transform not just the way you draw, but the way you see.
Frequently Asked Questions
This course is for anyone who wants to learn to draw—or who has tried and felt frustrated by traditional methods. Whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced artist looking for a breakthrough, the Dao of Effortless Drawing will transform your relationship with the pencil.
No prior experience is needed. This course starts from first principles and builds progressively. In fact, beginners often progress faster because they have fewer habits to unlearn.
Just a pencil and paper. As you progress, you may wish to experiment with different pencil grades and quality drawing paper, but no special equipment is required to begin.
Every session is recorded and available for replay. You can watch at your own pace and revisit any module as many times as you like.
We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. If the course isn’t right for you, simply let us know within 30 days of enrollment for a full refund—no questions asked.
As a founding member, you’ll have lifetime access to all course recordings and materials, including any future updates.
“The act of drawing is not a technical performance to be mastered. It is a process of manifestation—a sacred conversation between your conscious intention and the extraordinary intelligence that already lives within you.”