Drawing Fundamentals
Course details
About the course
Develop your artistic confidence and bring your ideas to life through drawing. This practical, hands-on course introduces essential drawing skills while encouraging creativity, experimentation, and personal expression.
Learn how to accurately observe and interpret the world around you through traditional drawing techniques, while exploring experimental approaches that push creative boundaries. You'll gain experience using a variety of drawing tools and media and learn professional finishing and presentation techniques to showcase your work with confidence.
Whether you're looking to enhance your creative practice, support a career pathway, start a small creative business, or simply develop a new skill, this course provides a strong foundation in drawing and visual communication.
By the end of the course, you'll have developed the skills and knowledge needed to respond to opportunities or challenges related to employment, creative enterprise, small business development, or career transition. You'll leave with a portfolio of drawings that demonstrate both technical ability and creative exploration.
Entry requirements
You must be 16 years old or over and not attending high school.
*This course is not available to international students.
About the provider
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology is the largest tertiary provider in the Bay of Plenty and the third largest institute of technology in New Zealand. We are home to more than 14,000 students, more than 1,000 staff, and we offer more than 150 study options ranging from certificate to post-graduate level.