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Read more about the article Add Life To Your Drawings

Make your drawings life-like by focusing on what adds life. Learning to draw... it isn't easy, is it? I've been drawing all my…

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Read more about the article Don’t Let Drawing Mistakes Hold You Back

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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Read more about the article How to Form a Daily Drawing Habit

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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Read more about the article How To Shade a Drawing: 3 Fundamentals for Beginners

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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Read more about the article How To Shade Your Drawings

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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Read more about the article The Basics of Visual Balance

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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Read more about the article A Guide To Drawing With Line

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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Read more about the article How To Design A Drawing

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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Read more about the article The Line Between Doodling and 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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Read more about the article How Paying Attention Helps You Draw Better

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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Read more about the article Portrait Sketch Tutorial: Bonita at 102

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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Read more about the article How To Draw A Hand

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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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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Continue ReadingAdd 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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Read more about the article How to Freehand Draw a Tetrahedron Using Linear Perspective

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Read more about the article What Is Eye Level?

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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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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Read more about the article How To Draw A Bear

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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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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Continue Reading8 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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