Featured Artist Lessons
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.
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.
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.
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!





















