Featured Artist Lessons

Hints, tips and lessons from our Featured Pencil Artists

Our Featured Artist Lesson Series includes a growing number of helpful resources to improve your drawing, sketching and animating skills using a growing range of pencils.

Below are lesson plans contributed by our Featured Artists...these resources will be helpful for pencil artists of all kinds.

Mike Theuer

Theuer  COMPOSITION- Combine forms and space to express yourself in a beautiful drawing

  SHADING- Gain an understanding of the pattern of light, then shading becomes very easy

  GRIP- Get a grip...on the pencil!

  HOW TO SHADE ACROSS A DRAWING- Learn a new form of shading

  FOCUS- Use detail to focus your drawing

  HOW DO I DRAW HAIR?- The Mike Theuer Method

These lessons contain rules that are simple and exercises that are easy to do. Yet they have a great impact on your drawing. Try them.

Brian Duey

Duey  NEGATIVE DRAWING- Learn how to draw the spacing around certain objects

  CIRCULISM TECHNIQUE- Gain the skills to make skin texture look excellent

  HOW TO DRAW A CAR- Now that is a Corvette!


Brian Duey is an extremely talented artist with plenty of knowledge to pass around. Let him help you improve your abilities.

Diane Wright

Wright  DRAWING SKIES AND CLOUDS- This is how professionals draw realistic skies

  DRAWING ROCKS- Let Diane teach you how to effectively draw rocks

  CHISEL POINT- Diane shows you how to make a versatile pencil

  DRAWING GRASS AND WEEDS- Grass and Weeds are easy! Just follow along with Diane.

Diane Wright excels in a number of drawing techniques. Her lessons can especially help you master the art of the landscape!

 
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