Category: Drawing Basics

Drawing animals with accuracy sounds tough, doesn’t it? Well, you’re in the right place to learn how. This guide takes advice from Aaron Blaise, a well-known animator and wildlife artist. You’ll discover that watching live animals can help a lot. Places like zoos and aquariums are great for this. Plus, looking at books and online…

A drawing portfolio is like your art diary. It displays your talents, recounts your path, and indicates your future direction. Consider it as an anthology of your finest work, not items haphazardly compiled but selected deliberately to demonstrate what distinguishes you in art. This extends beyond sketching; it involves creating a narrative — your narrative…

Critiques are essential for improving drawing skills, serving as a guide to direct your abilities correctly. From the beginning in art class, the importance of exchanging feedback is emphasized. With the advancement of technology, this process extends beyond the classroom, but vigilance is needed to avoid developing poor habits. Effective critiques begin with positive remarks…

Drawing clothes on people in art seems tricky, right? You need to know how different clothes hang and sway. Some fabrics like silk or cotton fall softly, while others, made by humans, stay stiff. How tight or loose clothing fits changes how it looks too. Watching real people helps make your drawings better. You’ll learn…

Switching from traditional to digital art can be exciting. You’re moving from pencils and paper to a world where your canvas is a screen, and your brush could be any tool you imagine. Lauren made this leap in mid-2018, focusing on her four original characters tagged #latte_trm. She found out that getting better at digital…

Urban sketching lets you capture city life right from where it happens. Think of drawing buildings, streets, and people doing everyday things. This hobby is all about showing stories through your art. Gabriel Campanario started the Urban Sketchers group in 2007 to bring people together who love sketching on location. They focus on storytelling with…

Drawing figures that leap off the page starts with mastering dynamic poses. This means learning how to draw people in ways that look real and full of life. Central to this skill is understanding simple shapes and lines that make our characters. Think about it – a person can start as basic circles and rectangles…

Drawing every day can make you better, and it doesn’t take long. You just need 15 minutes. This guide gives you easy steps to follow. It helps build your skills and feel more sure about drawing. First, we talk about how warming up with lines and shapes makes drawing easier later on. It’s like stretching…

Gesture drawing might sound fancy, but it’s all about catching the action and shape of people in quick sketches. Imagine trying to draw someone running, but you only have 1 to 5 minutes. That’s gesture drawing for you. It helps artists study human bodies and how they move. You use simple lines with tools like…

Drawing with light and shadow can make your art look real. Will Kemp wrote a guide about this. It shows how to use light and shadows to make drawings pop. You start with simple shapes like balls and boxes. It’s about making one side bright, another dark, and adding shadows that fall off objects. There…