Improve Your Drawing - Develop Your Drawing Skills
Exercises and lessons to improve your drawing. Learn to see more clearly, draw more accurately, and understand shading, value drawing, perspective and three-dimensional form. Don't skip the beginner 101 page - please check out those exercises too, as many of them will help even experienced artists hone their technique.
10 Classic Drawing Mistakes and How to Fix Them
This drawing lesson identifies the 10 most common mistakes beginners make, how to recognize them and most importantly, how to fix them.
This drawing lesson identifies the 10 most common mistakes beginners make, how to recognize them and most importantly, how to fix them.
Learn to Draw - Using Negative Space
Negative Space is an essential concept for anyone who draws or paints. How do you do a negative space drawing? Find out what negative space is and how to use it.
Negative Space is an essential concept for anyone who draws or paints. How do you do a negative space drawing? Find out what negative space is and how to use it.
Better Graphite Pencil Technique
When you learn to draw, we spend a more time learning to look at the object than learning to draw it on the page. But those marks on paper are your means of communicating with your viewer. Are you getting the most out of your pencil?
When you learn to draw, we spend a more time learning to look at the object than learning to draw it on the page. But those marks on paper are your means of communicating with your viewer. Are you getting the most out of your pencil?
Creative Mise en Place
'Mise en place' is a french term used by chefs to refer to the process of preparing and laying out ingredients before cooking. Just as mise en place helps the cooking process go smoothly, so peparing to draw by gathering and organizing your materials ahead of time allows you to create without interruptions.
'Mise en place' is a french term used by chefs to refer to the process of preparing and laying out ingredients before cooking. Just as mise en place helps the cooking process go smoothly, so peparing to draw by gathering and organizing your materials ahead of time allows you to create without interruptions.
Use a Value Viewer
This How-To shows you a quick and easy way to take the guesswork out of assessing the true value of image areas by using a value viewer to eliminate surrounding detail.
This How-To shows you a quick and easy way to take the guesswork out of assessing the true value of image areas by using a value viewer to eliminate surrounding detail.
Graphite Pencil FAQ Index
Find out the answers to common questions such as - which pencil should I use? do I have to buy a set? Can I use an eraser? Should I shade with a blunt or sharp pencil? What's the difference between a lead pencil and a graphite pencil? How to sharpen pencils?
Find out the answers to common questions such as - which pencil should I use? do I have to buy a set? Can I use an eraser? Should I shade with a blunt or sharp pencil? What's the difference between a lead pencil and a graphite pencil? How to sharpen pencils?
Drawing Lesson - Shading with Graphite Pencil
This drawing lesson will help you make the the change from flat outline to shading realistic tonal values.
This drawing lesson will help you make the the change from flat outline to shading realistic tonal values.
Still Life and Studies
A gallery of still life drawings and studies - finished drawings and exercises focussing on small objects and arrangements.
A gallery of still life drawings and studies - finished drawings and exercises focussing on small objects and arrangements.