do you love to draw, but feel frustrated that you can’t make your drawings look real?
I can guide you towards creating drawings that look so real, people seeing them will do a double take and say, “I can’t believe that’s not a photo!”
With nearly 20 years of experience creating art and teaching drawing as a university lecturer, I can help empower you to create the artworks you dream of — reaching your full potential as an artist.
Are you feeling frustrated because you want to learn how to draw, but feel hobbled by your lack of skills and confidence?
You keep asking yourself, “If only I had a dedicated teacher that could help guide me through my personal learning journey.”
You find yourself desperately searching through YouTube and Google, putting together a mix of resources that hopefully, maybe, will give you the drawing knowledge you need…
When really, what you wish for is to find a helpful and knowledgeable teacher that can help cut through all the noise. Providing you with a clear structure you can reliably use to bring your creative ideas to life and fully reach your artistic potential.
Creating art isn’t just a hobby for you — it’s a passion. You love to draw — to bring your creative vision to life.
It’s not a matter of wanting for you, it’s a visceral need to express yourself.
Drawing gets you in touch with your creative spirit. It’s the salve that gives life its spice, its flavor. Taking you out of your daily routine and exalting in the creative power you possess.
But you feel frustrated because you don’t know the techniques, the skills, that can help bring your ideas out of your head and onto the page.
Leaving you feeling stifled and cut off from your inner creative fountain. Unable to express yourself exactly the way that you want to, without anything holding you back.
Instead of frantically searching YouTube or even gasp! ChatGPT, and putting together a jigsaw puzzle of resources that maybe you’ll remember to put into action…
Why not have a trusted guide - a Yoda for drawing! - that can guide you through the fundamentals in an easy, fun and structured way?
Taking you — Luke Skywalker — from novice to a Jedi Master of drawing.
Introducing Master the Art of Drawing
An 8-week journey where you’ll draw with such accuracy, realism and beauty that people won’t believe it’s not a photo.
Your drawings will not just look like photos — they’ll look even better.
All without having to frantically search the internet for resources, doing it all by yourself without guidance or community.
I’ll be your trusty Yoda, guiding you through the fundamentals of drawing so you can bring your amazing creative visions to life.
Fully immersing yourself in the creative joy of drawing.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a trusted, time-proven structure you can refer to every time you put pencil to paper. A structure that will help you reach your full artistic potential.
Bringing your creative ideas from the realm of possibilities into beautiful reality — in exactly the way you want to express them.
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" - Pablo Picasso
What You’ll Learn in Master the Art of Drawing:
Creating the Foundation
Do you struggle when drawing contour lines? I’ve got you covered. In the course, you’ll learn how to work from general shapes, adding more detail as the drawing progresses. Making the drawing process stress-free (and fun!)
Drawing with Realism
You’ll learn the tools you need to create realistic drawings full of expression and accuracy.
Taking the guesswork out of it and creating reliable results every time you put pencil to paper.
Perspective
Does perspective drawing stress you out and feel intimidating? In this course, you’ll learn an easy way to identify and draw with perspective, and how to apply it to your drawings.
Struggle with Shading?
You’ll learn an easy way to create convincing volume and realism on your drawings, using tried and true methods that artists have used for centuries.
When you sign up to Master the Art of drawing you’ll enjoy:
A fun and engaging virtual environment (via a private, unlisted YouTube live link) with an experienced, kind and knowledgeable teacher who can not only guide you, but give you personalized feedback on your work.
A clear, time-tested and proven structure with clear steps that guide you towards achieving your drawing goals.
A proven system learned from not only the top art schools, but my nearly 20 years of experience creating art.
Small classes (6 students max.) to ensure that everyone gets personalized instruction and support from me, your Yoda. 🙂
Sharing your work with myself and your peers in a private, fun and interactive FB group.
Learning how to draw in the comfort of your own home, without the added expense of travel (no gasoline expenses to worry about - yay!)
Each class will be live on YouTube (through a private and unlisted link), lasting about 2.5 hrs. per class.
Each class will take place on Saturday mornings (10:00 AM EST), lasting for 8 weeks.
Classes start Saturday, June 13th, 2026.
A total of 8 class sessions — 2 months of focused, intensive instruction.
25min. drawing sessions, with 5min. breaks between sessions.
Small class with only 6 spots available.
Homework assignments and handouts to help you retain and reinforce what you’ve learned.
A final project consisting of an Old Master copy, where you will put together everything you’ve learned into one finished, refined drawing.
Course Structure
Lesson Plan
Week 1
We’ll cover Contour Drawing:
How to start your drawing with primary shapes
Checking for symmetry with axis lines
Using straight line construction to help with tricky curves/angles and contour lines.
Week 2
We’ll dive into Sighting and Comparative Measuring:
The envelope method
Plumb lines
Comparative Measuring
Ellipses
Angle sighting
Week 3
Negative and Positive Shapes:
What are they and how they can help improve the accuracy in your drawing.
Week 4
The advantages of cross-contour Drawing:
How to they can help you create volume in your drawings — without shading!
How cross-contour lines can help you when it’s time to shade your drawing.
Week 5
Perspective in Still Life:
How to identify when you’re viewing an object in one or two-point perspective.
Successfully interpreting and creating convincing perspective and depth in your drawings.
Week 6
The one everyone is waiting for: Introduction to Shading (Tone):
The 9-value scale - what is it and how can it help your drawings?
Learn all the elements of light logic and why they’re so important to create 3D volume on your 2D page.
Week 7
The advantages of drawing on toned paper:
Why it’s easier (and sometimes more fun!) to draw on gray (toned) paper vs. white.
How to use the white pastel pencil to create the light masses in your drawing.
Week 8
The Grand Finale! Show off your beautiful Final Project:
A whole class dedicated to feedback not only from me, but your peers on your drawing.
Learn what’s working in your drawings and what could be improved.
A constructive critique that will help you spot your blind spots. Guiding you towards even greater drawing mastery.
Leave Behind the struggle to bring your creative vision to life, and embrace your full power and potential as an artist…
Learn all the skills you need from a knowledgeable and kind teacher with nearly 20 years of experience creating realistic figurative art.
Enjoy learning in a fun virtual environment, receiving personalized feedback on your work.
Acquire a clear and proven structure you can count on every time you draw — bringing you closer to achieving your artistic potential.
Become part of a community: small, private classes where you can share your work not only with me, but with fellow artists who share your passion for drawing and are in the same artistic journey as you.
Every lesson will be recorded and uploaded to an online portal, helping you learn at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home.
Meet Your Guide
Aixa Oliveras
Professional Artist & ProfessorHello! I’m Aixa Oliveras. I’ve been creating art for almost twenty years. I’ve also taught drawing classes at Miami Dade College.
As a student in Puerto Rico, I struggled to find a place where I could learn the techniques I needed to create realistic drawings and paintings of the human figure.
I was lucky to find art instruction that taught me what I wanted to learn. But I know that not everyone is that lucky.
Which is why I’m offering my online drawing course — Master the Art of Drawing.
I’m happy to guide you throughout the course — teaching you the foundational skills that will help you express your own creative vision. Taking your art to the next level.
How to Sign Up
Choose to pay in full or weekly with a payment plan.
Classes start Saturday, June 13th, 2026.
An intensive, live 8-week course where you'll learn everything you need to know about drawing, helping you reach your artistic potential. Save $200 on this first round of the course! Discount applied at checkout.
Enjoy a one-time discount for this round only!
Since this is the first time I’m offering this class in a live, online format, everyone who signs up will save $200 USD on the course!
Bringing the total price down from $1,000 to $800 USD! That’s less than the price you would pay at a university.
This discount will not be offered again in the future and is only reserved for students in this first round of the course.
Here are the skills you’re going to walk away with for only $800:
Establishing a strong foundation for your drawings with a fool-proof and clear structure you can follow.
No more constant erasing and back-and-forth with your drawings! Gain more confidencein your mark-making through practice sessions with me, your guide.
A variety of tools to help you check your drawings for not only accuracy, but volume, depth and creative expresion.
Understanding perspective - how it works, how to apply it to your drawing, and why it can be not only essential but a fun way to create the illusion of 3D space in a 2D surface (your paper 😉).
Creating convincing volume and realism in your drawings through light logic - understand how light affects a form, and how you can use it to bring beautiful realism to your work.
All of these skills become tools you can use repeatedly in service of your creative vision — bringing your ideas to life and fully exploring your potential as an artist.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Since we’re covering drawing fundamentals, we’ll be drawing mainly still life objects.
Because of this, we won’t be learning how to draw the figure in this class. But all the skills you learn in this course can also be applied to drawing the figure.
This course becomes an important foundation to have, preparing you with the skills you need to make drawing the figure a lot easier.
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For the live sessions, students will be drawing from reference photos provided by me.
For the homework assignments, students will be drawing objects they have at home in their sketchbook.
The only exception to this is the Final Project, where I’ll provide students with their reference photo for their project.
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Yes! The classes will be live on YouTube, but they will be recorded and uploaded to the online portal. So if you miss a class or want to go back to review what you’ve learned, you con do so at anytime.
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Since the class is live, there won’t be lifetime access. But you will enjoy access to the recordings and all the class material for 6 months after the class ends.
This is to ensure that you actually apply what you’ve learned, since I’ve noticed that when giving lifetime access, people tend to not finish the course.
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Yes, payment plans are available - charged on a weekly basis.
For this first round of the course, the $200 discount will be applied to both the full payment and installment plans at checkout.
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I accept all types of payments, including credit cards and ApplePay. You’ll see all available payment options at checkout.
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Since the classes are run live, refunds won’t be accepted.
This also ensures that students bring their full commitment to the class.
Hear what other students have said about my courses!
“This course provides you with a solid foundation rooted in a classical, time tested approach that is easily digestible and equally memorable.”
Aixa’s easy approach arms you with foundational knowledge that helps you create consistently accurate and pleasing charcoal portraits! Aixa is a master of tonal and light values (as evidenced by her art) and you definitely will be the beneficiary of all that mastery.
In the end, I truly felt I was lucky to have found Aixa Oliveras the artist and doubly lucky to have found Aixa Oliveras, the teacher! Enjoy!”
— Felix Jorge Torres, artist and business owner
are you ready to learn How to draw with the realism and beauty you’ve always wanted?
Join Master the Art of Drawing for only $800 USD today!