Drawing & Sketching

All the resources you need to begin creating your own masterpieces, including step-by-step sketching tutorials covering everything from proportions to color.

  • Artist working on clay sculpture in art studio
    Famous Quotations by Artists About Art and Drawing
  • Tattoo artists brainstorming and sketching with digital tablet in tattoo studio office
    Drawing and Art Software Programs
  • Young artist working on big painting.
    What Do Artists Actually Do?
  • Two approaches to gestural drawing: the same fisted hand.
    Sketching 101: What Is Gesture Drawing?
  • Art by Romero Britto on Display in Gallery
    How to Be A Famous Artist
  • landscape sketch
    Landscape Art and Drawing Ideas
  • Fun Drawing Games
  • Drafting Room Practice
    The Definition of Perspective in Drawing
  • Ink in water on white background
    Tips for Choosing and Using India Ink for Art
  • Row of Cypress Trees and Farmhouse at Sunrise
    What Is a Vanishing Point in Art?
  • Young female artist drawing jewelry design in sketch book
    Beginner Art and Drawing Lessons
  • Modular Origami Sculpture on Colorful Background
    A Guide to Picking Compelling, Thought-Provoking Names for Your Art
  • "Aino Myth" by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
    What Is a Triptych in the Art World?
  • a lake with green foliage reflected
    Things to Draw: Objects and Still Life
  • artist drawing
    What Are Orthogonal Lines in Drawing?
  • Art students drawing with charcoal
    Is Drawing Charcoal Toxic or Harmful?
  • Man sketching with charcoal
    Charcoal Art Fixative: The Controversy Explained
  • Artist's hand and sketch.
    What is a Blending Stump or Tortillon?
  • Woman Sketching at Remote Lakeside
    Learn How to Draw Step-By-Step
  • gridded photograph
    Drawing With a Grid
  • Implied Line Feather
    What Is Implied Line in Drawing?
  • Male African American architect drafting and reviewing blueprints in office
    What Is Contour Line in Drawing?
  • Women drawing in an artists studio
    What Is Lineweight?
  • Young female artist drawing thumbnail sketches in a sketch book
    How to Use Thumbnail Sketching to Help With Drawing
  • Diptych image of nature and the sky.
    What is a Diptych in the Art World?
  • Architect working on construction drawing.
    What is a Working Drawing?
  • Leisure
    How the Horizon Line Controls Perspective in Art
  • Hand holding pencil sketching the face of a young boy
    12 Tips for Drawing Children's Portraits
  • An incorrect approach to negative space focuses on the form of the object while drawing
    How to Use Negative Space
  • Drawing a glass painting design on a piece of tracing paper using a chinagraph pencil (heart shape)
    Heart Symbols and Meaning in Art and Drawing
  • Hand drawing curvy lines with a pencil
    What Is 'Line' in Drawing?
  • 7 Steps to Setting Up for a Still Life Drawing
  • Crosshatching
    Crosshatching - What is Crosshatching?
  • Sketch artist working on a drawing
    What Is Hatching?
  • Drawing shaded letters with a pencil on a white piece of paper.
    Practice Graduated and Continuous Shading
  • pose-09-May-2009
    Tone - What is Tone or Tonal Value?
  • arrow doodle symbols
    Doodle Symbolism - Arrows
  • Fire Watercolor
    How to Draw Flames and Fire
  • Drawing rabbit design on tracing paper
    How to Draw a Realistic Bunny Rabbit
  • A reflection drawing of a city.
    6 Ways to Improve Reflection Drawings
  • Ginger cat playing with chalk
    How to Draw and Sketch Cats
  • draw a horse - step one
    Learn How to Draw a Horse, Step by Step
  • Manga painter
    How to Draw a Manga Face
  • Girl drawing
    How to Teach a Child to Draw
  • clock tower
    Three Point Perspective Drawing Made Simple
  • Color photo of a dog in a nature setting.
    Draw a Dog From a Photograph
  • Sketched drawing of a wolf
    How to Draw a Majestic Wolf
  • diagram
    Draw a 3D Pyramid in Perspective
  • a single red rose
    Learn How to Draw a Rose in Colored Pencil
  • Hand drawing flower
    What Do Your Flower Doodles Mean?
  • sketch of a horse
    Drawing Lesson: Sketch a Running Horse
  • Chrysanthemum morifolium 'Healthy'
    Learn How to Draw a Chrysanthemum Bloom
  • A skeleton
    The Head and Neck Anatomy Drawing
  • My Cat Joey, Drawn in Pencil by Helen South, About.com Guide to Drawing and Sketching
    How to Draw a Cat in Graphite Pencil
  • Sketch
    How to Draw Metal With Colored Pencil
  • Learn How to Draw a Sea Turtle
  • Doodling at work
    Doodle Symbolism - People, Faces and Features
  • How to Draw a Horse's Head
  • Unfinished Brick Wall Drawing
    Draw a Brick Wall in Perspective
  • Artist's hand and sketch.
    Steps on How To Apply Spray Fixative to Artwork
  • Young boy drawing at home
    Tips on Drawing From Imagination
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