Archive for the ‘Basics’ Category

Here is a detailed and very comprehensive worksheet which will help you figure out how to draw the human body better. Everything from proportions to anatomy to how to remember to think of things like center of gravity is covered, all on a single page....

Learn How to Draw Hair

October 27, 2011 | In: Basics, Media, Pencil, Portraits

Knowing how to draw hair will always be one of those tricky things which requires practice, especially when you're still a beginner. That's why it's so handy that there are plenty of people out there willing to help. Like this tutorial, which will give...

How to Draw a Horse

October 24, 2011 | In: Basics, Media, Pencil, Techniques

It doesn't have to be difficult to draw animals. What looks like a very complicated shape to draw can actually easily be reduced to a few simple shapes, which, when combined, do most of the work for you. That's how it is for this simple but still very...

How to Draw an Audi R8

October 23, 2011 | In: Basics, Color, Media, Pen

Impress your friends and family, and learn how to use a few basic techniques to turn a picture of a car into a drawing you can be proud of. Sometimes the best way to learn how to draw a car, or any other real-life object, is to just put pencil to paper...

Drawing with Shapes

January 27, 2010 | In: Basics

As complicated as some drawings might seem, in the end they are mostly based on various combinations of simple shapes. Triangles, rectangles and circles. That's all it really is. You might find it hard to draw if you start off trying to draw something...

Helpful Drawing Tips and Hints

January 27, 2010 | In: Basics

This article is nothing more but a list of useful tips and hints put together by an artist to help. Nothing more than that, nor does it have to be? What could be better for an artist-in-training than to have a list of tips from an established artist?...

If you're just starting out with learning how to draw, then the drawing jargon and terms used in the tutorials you find online might scare you off. Do not worry, because this tutorial will lay all those tutorials out for you, and explain exactly what is...

If you're just starting out with drawing and you're having trouble, this could be happening because your brain might be trying to tell you what to draw. This can be a problem, because you're not supposed to be drawing objects, but the individual lines,...

Sometimes it is a good thing if you just try something different, something that is not standard. This short and simple tutorial will show you a way to digitally create an eerie zombie scene at night in the moonlight. You can even try to recreate the...

Creating a great composition takes a lot of thought and planning. This tutorial will give you nine great tips on how to make your compositions better. Click here to go to How to Create Better Compositions tutorial Source: Empty...