I respond to a reader's and viewers' questions about how to avoid making drawing mistakes, and explain two ways to shift your…
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Don’t Let Drawing Mistakes Hold You Back
How to you get into the groove of drawing every day, especially when you have a full schedule? You know that improving…
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How to Form a Daily Drawing Habit
Shading is the process of adding tonal areas to your drawings and paintings to make them look more life-like. How to shade…
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How To Shade a Drawing: 3 Fundamentals for Beginners
Shading involves two concerns: actual technique and values. Contour line is where most people begin a drawing. Since line is all about…
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How To Shade Your Drawings
If you're a designer or artist trying to wrap your head around what balance is all about, you're not alone. Balance is…
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The Basics of Visual Balance
Most of us use line without thinking much about it. Since early childhood we’ve used pencils, pens and crayons to make marks.…
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A Guide To Drawing With Line
An Eye Level reader wrote: What would be the forward steps to draw realistically, in correct proportions, from imagination? Especially imaginary (though…
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How To Design A Drawing
While I think that designers in general should be able to draw well enough to communicate their ideas, (Von Glitska @Vonster tweeted…
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The Line Between Doodling and Drawing
I want to preface this by saying that as you learn and apply design principles, and gain experience with organizing elements within…
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How Paying Attention Helps You Draw Better
Older people provide a varied facial landscape to draw. In many ways, it's easier to describe the external contours when there are…
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Portrait Sketch Tutorial: Bonita at 102
In this Sketchbook Session I demonstrate my approach to drawing a hand. I start by sketching the general structure and overall shape,…
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How To Draw A Hand
Whether drawing from photographic reference or from life, we can easily adopt what I call a line-by-line approach to drawing. We look at…
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Add Energy To Your Drawings With Structural Syntax
Light logic is a system of using value pattern to create the illusion of real space and form. It is simply the idea…
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Introduction to Light Logic
A proper understanding of eye level goes a long way when you want to draw something accurately. When asked,"What is eye-level?" the…
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What Is Eye Level?
I had my sketchbook open while viewing televised Congressional hearings. US Attorney General, Eric Holder, was up to bat, answering questions pitched…
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From My Sketchbook: Drawing the Congressional Hearings
Here's a tutorial (in speed sketch mode) for my drawing class showing how to draw a bear from photographic reference (which is…
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How To Draw A Bear
If you want to improve at anything, you must decide to do it. You need to make a commitment and even schedule regular time in your week or your day to pursue drawing.
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8 Tips For Improving Your Drawing Skills
I am currently in the concept stages of a logo development project. I always begin in my sketchbook, doodling forms and symbols,…
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Sketchy Memories