As with any discipline there are fundamentals that are often overlooked but which are absolutely necessary to draw and paint with accuracy. If…
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How To Draw the Basic Forms
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
Line is the most basic and expressive element of all the design elements. We can't develop a drawing without using them. Using…
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Drawing Basics: To Draw Accurately, Draw Forms, Not Edges
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
Do you draw mainly from photographs? People often do, and unless you've had the experience of drawing from life in a figure…
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Tips To Improve Portrait Drawing Using Structure
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
Beginning with the basic structure and proportions, here’s one approach to draw the head in a front view. You can apply these…
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How To Draw The Head — Front View
Is there a difference between depth and volume? And, if so, how are they different? This question was posed during a classroom discussion…
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Is There A Difference Between Depth and Volume in Two-Dimensional Design?
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
This article is Part Two in a series of tutorial articles explaining linear perspective from a visual, non-technical approach. By visual, I…
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Drawing Basics: How To Find Angles and Proportions In Linear Perspective
This is the first of a series of tutorial articles dealing with linear perspective. Read Part Two here. And there there's Part…
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Drawing Basics: A Visual Approach to Linear Perspective
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