Drawing Lessons
Drawing Lessons: The Importance of Sketching
Drawing Lessons: The Importance of Sketching Sketching is the fundamental building block for an artist. It is used to develop a personal visual vocabulary. Sketches are visual exercises in problem solving and provides the o...
Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures
Learn how to add texture to your drawings in this entry into Diane Wright’s drawing lessons series. Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures So what is texture? We touch an object and can feel that it is smooth or rough, but ...
Drawing Lessons: Using Light and Shadows to Create 3-Dimensional Shapes
Drawing Lessons: Using Light and Shadows to Create 3-Dimensional Shapes What gives objects form and shape? Light and the shadows it creates. Since graphite creates only shades of gray, values are all we have to represent l...
Drawing Lessons: It All Starts With A Mark
In this entry into Diane Wright’s drawing lessons, Diane explores the different types of marks you can make using a pencil. The anticipation of making that first mark on a blank sheet of paper for me is exciting. Each m...
Drawing Lessons for Advanced Artists: Light Movement in Drawings
Drawing Lessons: Light Movement in Drawings INTRODUCTION These drawings look quite alive. But their liveliness is not from detail since the detail between them is very different. Instead, their liveliness comes from the fac...
Drawing Lessons: How to Draw Hair With The Theuer Method
Drawing Lessons: How to Draw Hair With The Theuer Method Hair comes in many shapes, sizes, twists, colors and turns. This is true for hair on people and on animals. As a result, drawing hair is difficult. How do I draw hair? I...
Drawing Lessons: Use Focus and Detail to Sharpen Your Drawing
Drawing Lessons: Use Focus and Detail to Sharpen Your Drawing Focus is not how clear your drawing is. Instead, the focus of your drawing is the subject. It is what you want the viewer to see. And often it is what you want the v...
Drawing Lessons: Drawing Grass and Weeds with Diane Wright
Grass and weeds are some of the most challenging nature elements to capture in a landscape drawing. It is seldom the focal point of a landscape, but if not rendered correctly, can negatively impact the rest of the scene. Grass ...
Drawing Lessons: The Chisel Point
The most versatile pencil point is the chisel point. The top sharp edge can be used for finer markings, details and creating fine lines. The flat angled plane can be used for shading. In this entry into our drawing lessons seri...
Drawing Lessons: How to Shade Across a Drawing with Mike Theuer
Drawing Lessons: How to Shade Across a Drawing Shading a face is challenging . . . the hair, the chin, the eyes. Trickier still can be shading a face across the entire page. Let me explain in this entry into our drawing lessons...
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