06/23/03 -Sketching with Pen and Ink
A brief guide to selecting age-appropriate drawing materials for your child. Forget the box of five hundred wax crayons - check out these suggestions for quality and cost-effective products.

Teaching Children to Draw - An Introduction
This article looks at the development of children's drawing, whether they should be taught to draw, and how you can guide their creativity at each stage

Teaching Children to Draw - First Drawing Lessons
Before you can learn to draw, you must first learn to really see the world around you. These introductory lessons encourage children to look carefully at objects and consider what they know compared to what they see; read on for tips on discovering art history with your child.

Drawing Materials for Children
A brief guide to selecting age-appropriate drawing materials for your child. Forget the box of five hundred wax crayons - check out these suggestions for quality and cost-effective products.

05/13/03 - Colored Pencil Basics
Colored pencil needn't be wishy-washy. Move beyond bland shading with this article on basic pencil strokes, including hatching, scumbling and burnishing. Read on for hands-on colored pencil exercises.

Shading with Graphite Pencil - Tonal Drawing
This illustrated article from your guide looks at the difference between contour (line) drawing and tonal, shaded drawing. Find out what you need and how to get started.

How to Draw Dragons
Bring drawings of these mythical beasts to life with your drawing/sketching guide's tips on drawing dragons. Find out how to design a cool dragon by using real animals as a reference.

Tutorial - Draw a Manga Character in Colored Pencil
Good things come in threes - and so do the colors needed to created an manga drawing. Your guide explains how to use a minimal palette of color, shadow and highlight to create a manga character in colored pencil.

03/23/03 - How to Draw Hair
Don't let poorly drawn hair ruin a great portrait or life drawing. This tutorial shows you how to draw natural, lifelike hair in pencil.

Learn to Draw: Lesson 2 - Blind Contour Drawing
Try this classic drawing exercise designed to develop the hand-eye connection and improve your observational skills.

Drawing Tips - Index
Great tips and ideas to help you get better results with your drawings and make life in the studio a little easier. Includes a range of media and subjects.

02/16/03 - Introduction to Basic Perspective
Discover what linear perspective is and who gets credit for inventing it, then click through to the next pages for how to draw a box in one point and two point perspective.

02/02/03 - Sketching Trees
When you 'can't see the wood for the trees' you need to keep things simple and sketch the basic forms. Here's some tips for quickly and easily getting trees down on paper.

01/26/03 - Observing Angles in Life Drawing
Use a variation on the 'thumb and pencil' method to measure angles within the pose for a more accurate life drawing.

01/25/03 - Measuring The Model
How to measure your subject using a the thumb and pencil method. Fit your whole model on the page and improve your proportions by judging relative lengths with this traditional method.

01/05/03 - How to Draw Eyes
Close observation is the key to drawing eyes that sparkle with life, and understanding the anatomy of the eye will help you draw what you see.

12/22/02a - Steve Barr Interview
Meet top professional cartoonist and illustrator Steve Barr, author of Peel Books '123 Draw Cartoons' series. Find out how he 'turned pro' while still in school, and get some tips on professional cartooning.

12/12/02a - Proportions of the Human Head
The skull imposes a predictable and useful regularity of proportion upon the human head. Find out how to construct a simple, accurately proportioned head. This lesson is an essential foundation to both drawing from life and cartooning.

12/15/02a - Drawing the Human Head from Life
Learn to draw a head from life by using the basic rules of proportion. Begin with the basic structure and place the main features accurately.

Inspiration - Renewing Creative Energy
Feel like your muse has packed her bags and gone on vacation? Here are some strategies to help you beat the blank-page blues and start drawing again.

10/07/02a - Drawing Hands
Hands are complex and expressive, but needn't be so daunting if you take it a step at a time. Just imagine some mittens onto your model!

Learn to Draw: Lesson 2 - Drawing Structure
Before you tackle details, you must first establish the overall shape and structure they are part of. Learn how to begin your drawings with the basic forms.

10/07/02a - Art Paper Processes and Pulps
Paper comes from trees? Maybe, but there are other sources too. Find out about the different types of paper in the first of this two-part series.

10/07/02b - Care and Storage of Art Paper
Quality paper requires careful handling if it is to retain its archival qualities. Learn how to care for your investment and ensure your artwork is immortal!

10/14/02 - Copyright
Copyright is an important ethical and legal issue for the visual artist. This article will help you avoid breach of copyright, with links to relevant government and community bodies.

Learn to Draw: Lesson 1 - A Simple Still Life
Don't know where to begin? Here's how to get started with simple exercises in still life, just grab your sketchbook and a piece of fruit and off you go...

Before You Buy: Materials
So what is really in those lovely boxes in the artstore window? Find out what you really need.

Top Picks: Top 5 Books
Five top class art instructional and reference books that will earn their place on your bookshelf.

Top Picks: Top 5 Magazines
Your guide's choice of the best art journals covering various media and interests. There's one to suit you.

Top Picks: Top 5 Sketchbooks
Forget the diamonds - be it a beautiful, luxury leather-bound journal, or a workhorse spiral-bound travel pad, sketchbooks are an artist's best friend.

Top Picks: Top 5 Drawing Sets
Art materials in readymade sets are a convenient addition to your backpack and a great gift. Here are five top picks covering popular drawing media.

Foreshortening
Tips on drawing objects, and especially figures, in perspective.

How To: Improve Your Range of Tone
A short exercise to help you get a fuller range of tone out of your chosen medium. Fix those muddy or washed-out tones for good.

How To: Set Up a Still Life
Put some life into your still life. Follow these pointers to plan and set up a still life that give you something to work with.

Glossary - Composition Terms
Find out that contours aren't those lines around hills on a map. Well, at least not to us, they aren't!

Learn to Draw
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