QuickTips Index

Artist Trading Cards and Business Cards
Artist trading cards are a great way to share your work around. To be successful as an artist, you need to be seen, and artist's trading cards are an inexpensive way to do this. They also make great business cards.

Achieving a Good Likeness
Drawing a likeness - making your portrait drawing look like face of the person you are trying to draw - is the whole point of portraiture, right? Here are some tips to help you get your portrait to look more like the sitter.

Drawing Tip: Using Contrast to Pop or Not
Contrast can be a friend or a foe when you are drawing in any medium. Here's a quick drawing tip to help you use it to your advantage

Grid Drawing with Computer Graphics
If you need to copy a digital photograph, or can scan a photograph into your computer, why not try using your computer graphics software program to make gridding your drawing a bit easier?

Enlarging Details and Scaling Up Pictures
Sometimes you don't want to spoil your picture by drawing lines on it, and sometimes the image is too small - you need more detail, or you want your drawing to be bigger. This grid drawing tip is just what you need.

Stop Gridlines Spoiling Your Drawing
One major problem with grid drawing - those pesky lines that are hard to erase, especially once you start shading. Here's a tip on avoiding the problem when using a grid to copy a drawing or photograph

Anime and Manga Drawing Tip - Learn about Japanese Art
Anime and Manga drawing tip - its a quick tip because its quick to explain, but don't expect a shortcut. If you are serious about improving your Anime and Manga drawings, check out this drawing tip.

Beginner's Calligraphy - Pen Maintenance
For good results in calligraphy, its essential to have clean pens. Clean your pen after use to prevent dried ink clogging the nib.

Beginner's Calligraphy - Letter Formation Tip
Calligraphy Tip - old writing habits will sabotage your calligraphy. Find out the 'attitude ajustment' that will help you make the change from scribbler to calligrapher.

Clean, Crisp Manga Drawing
Manga drawing tip find out how to lose the smudges and dirty colors in your Manga drawing and get a cleaner look.

Improve Your Manga Character Drawing
Manga drawing tip - improve your Manga drawing with this manga drawing tip - get to know your character

Blending Colored Pencil
Finding colored pencils tricky to blend? Read these tips on different methods of blending and layering colored pencil.

Improving Color Intensity
Broad areas of color can look surprisingly flat and dull in colored pencil drawing. Here's a tip on adding vibrancy to your colored pencil drawings by tricking the viewer's eye.

Removing Wax Bloom
A colored pencil drawing tip - find out what to do about wax bloom. Wax bloom is a white haze that appears across heavily worked colored pencil drawings as a layer of the wax medium forms on the surface.

Experimenting With Materials
Do your colored pencil drawings look a bit dull or patchy? Maybe you are using the wrong paper. Extend your knowledge of the colored pencil medium by trying out different papers and pencils.