TopPicks Index
Top 6 Sustainable Drawing Supplies
Tree-Free, eco-friendly, green, sustainable drawing supplies. Not easy to come by, but they are out there. Here are a list of some sustainable art supplies to help you reduce your ecological footprint.
Top 6 Ways to Troubleshoot Your Drawings
Troubleshooting Your Drawings - ways to identify problem areas in your drawings and sketches. What is wrong with your drawing? Sometimes you've been looking at it for so long, you can't see it at all. Here are some ways to get a new perspective.
Top 6 Beginner's Drawing Instruction Books
Drawing books for beginners - your guide's pick of the best drawing books for beginners. Everyone can learn to draw, and these drawing books for beginners will help you gain the skills you need.
Top 6 Graphite Pencil Drawing Paper
Drawing Paper - a selection of the best papers and boards for drawing with graphite pencil.
Top 7 Movies on Art and Artists
movies about artists - your guide's picks of inspiring viewing, true and not-so-true stories about artist's lives, and visually rich cinema experiences.
Top 5 Drawing from Imagination
How do I draw better from imagination? This is an often-asked question. Here are some tips on bringing your creative fantasies to life, drawing from memory or imagination, and developing your own imaginative art.
Top 5 Drawing Sets - Drawing Materials in Boxes and Tins
Boxed sets of art materials are great for gift-giving. Sets can offer a selection of a variety of mediums, or all the basics you need for starting in one particular medium. Then of course, you have the deluxe drawing set with everything but the kitchen sink! Here is my selection of the best art drawing sets.
Top 5 Ink Drawing and Painting Sets
Ink Drawing and Painting sets are a great way to buy everything you need in one neatly-packaged box. Take them traveling or keep them on your desk. Here are my pick of ink drawing sets and sumi-e and ink painting sets.
Top 5 Colored Pencil Instructional Books
colored pencil drawing instruction books - reviews - your guide's pick of books on colored pencil drawing, including colored pencil basics, portraits and advanced techniques.
Top 5 Art Reference Books
Art Reference Books - Reference books on materials, techniques and art history for artists. Find out what's in your favorite medium, all about the color red, make your own pastels.... check out this eclectic range of reference books for artists.
Top 5 Ways to Learn to Draw What You See
How can I learn to draw what I see? Firstly, by training your mind and eye to work together with some simple exercises. Here are some top techniques that will help you learn how to draw what you see. The linked headings will take you to more information on each technique, with lessons to practice.
Top 5 Ink Drawing Pens
Your choice of ink-drawing pen will depend upon your style of drawing and personal taste. Marker pens with lightfast ink are available in various diameter nibs, as well as brush-style tips. If you use a fountain pen or drafting pen, choose ink made for those pens, as they clog with indian ink. My favorite is the old-fashioned split-nib dip pen and Indian ink.
Top 10 Artist's Pastel's - Soft Pastels, Hard Pastels and Pastel Pencils
Your guide's pick of the best artist's pastels - best quality soft pastels, hard pastels and pastel pencils. Includes conte crayons, Sennelier and Faber-Castell. Find the right pastel brand and type to suit your style and budget.
Top 10 Charcoal and Pastel Paper
Pastel and Charcoal drawing paper - your guide's selection of the best papers for soft pastel and charcoal drawing.
Top 8 Drawing Charcoal - Willow, Vine, Compressed and Pencil
Charcoal - vine, willow, and compressed charcoal sticks and pencils, carbon pencils for sketching and drawing. Your guide's pick of the best materials for charcoal drawing.
Top 8 sketchbooks
Artist's sketchbooks - top picks. A selection of recommended artist's sketchbooks recommended by your guide. A range of sketchbooks for general use, as well as sketchbooks for specific media such as pastel and watercolor.
Top 10 Steps to Developing Your Art Career
Art Career Kick-Start - stop procrastinating and get your art career going. This 10-point plan will help you make the step up from amateur to professional. Art careers don't just happen by themselves!
Top 7 New Year's Resolutions for Artists
New Year's Resolutions for Artists. Don't try to do all of them - just pick one that will give your creativity a boost, or help your technique develop the most.
Top 5 Drawing Books - Dragons and Fantasy
Your guide's pick of dragon and fantasy drawing books, from step-by-step to more general books on the art of drawing dragons, mythical beasts, knights and castles.
Top 5 Drawing Ink
drawing inks - selecting inks for drawing, indian ink and chinese ink for fine art drawing.
Top 5 Magazines
version 3.0, your drawing/sketching guide recommends top 5 Art magazines