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Drawing Exercise - Get to Know Your Medium
Get to Know Your Medium - before you start work on a finished drawing, do some creative, purposeful scribbles to get to know your drawing materials - pencils, charcoal, pens or other mediums.

Pencil Sketching Lesson - Structure and Form
Sketching in the basic structure using simple shapes can help you to create a more convincing three-dimensional drawing. This article shows you how to go about sketching structure.

Models from the Toybox
How to use toys as reference sources for drawing. Using action figures, dolls and toys as references can help you visualize details and create more realistic sketches where you don't have access to a 'real life' model.

Blind Contour Drawing
Blind Contour Drawing - a classic drawing exercise to develop eye hand co-ordination, blind contour drawing is useful for beginning and advanced artists.

Introduction to Drawing - Value
Introduction to Drawing - Part three of the beginner's drawing course introduces value drawing in graphite pencil. Learn how to use light and shade to describe a three-dimensional form.

Value Drawing Exercise
Value drawing exercise - see value better and develop the depth in your drawing with this drawing exercise, beginning with middle values and working outwards.

Learn to Draw - A Simple Still Life
beginner drawing lesson - learn how to draw with easy step by step pencil drawing lesson

An Introduction to Contour Drawing - Page 1
An introduction to basic contour outline drawing for beginners