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Everything You Need to Know About Drawing

A clear, creative path to mastering drawing fundamentals—rooted in tradition, made for your personal style.

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Everything You Need to Know About Drawing

From sketching your first lines to creating finished works of art, this course is made for anyone who wants to build fundamental skills. Join us and get excited to start your drawing journey!

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What is Halftone Studio?

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Halftone Studio is a collaboration between artists Jake Taplin and Ramon Hurtado. Like many others, we were frustrated by how overwhelming and scattered art education can be. It led us to wonder—how did so many artists in the 19th century achieve such a high level of skill with far fewer resources?
What we found is that their training didn’t rely on rigid academic rules. It was structured, hands-on, and full of creativity. Learning to draw was treated as a practical craft, not a mystery. That mindset helped generations of artists develop both technical skill and personal expression, and we believe it still works today.
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At Halftone Studio, our mission is to bring that clarity and structure back. We provide free drawing references, curated image sets for studying great artists, and writing that takes you inside the student experience of the past.
We believe that no artist is born great, they’re forged by a great system of education. Returning that starts here.

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