Keeping Motivation and Overcoming Fear When Learning to Draw
The biggest challenge most beginner artists face: the fear to make mistakes! Even expert artists struggle often with their lack of self-confidence. At last these feelings are causing most artist’s blocks – sometime the artist is aware of this, sometimes not.
Most probably you experience the same problem. But no need to worry, you can prevail [...]
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Nose
The nose is crucial in relation to the overall scale of all other facial features of your pencil portrait subject. An incorrectly drawn nose will very much affect the likeness of your subject. The nose is also a study in shading and blending.
Here are some issues you should keep in mind when drawing a nose:
* [...]
The Basics of Sketching and Drawing – How to Build a Strong Foundation
“Why is it so important for an artist to learn sketching?”
Drawing in monochrome lays the foundation for greater things to come. You can move on to color pens, oil pastels, watercolor painting, acrylic painting and oil painting later on but without the skills to create the visual effects that you want, your progress will be [...]
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Backgrounds
Backgrounds are useful in enhancing your vision of how you want to represent your subjects. Backgrounds can soften the presentation or make it more energetic or dramatic.
However, whatever you do, make sure that the background works with the subject and not against it. Also, do not forget that the subject is the reason you starting [...]
Pencil drawing, tips and equipment
The use of any art medium requires a little knowledge. This article focuses on the tools you should use, and some of the techniques of pencil drawing.
Firstly, consider the pencils themselves. In my experience, paying more for a pencil merely buys a better quality casing; the performance of the leads is pretty similar across [...]
Tips on Oil Painting – the Drawing Phase
The first phase of the oil painting process consists of drawing the scene on your canvas. Here are a few tips:Â
* Drawing – Unless you are into complete abstract art (and even then) it is absolutely necessary that you have some drawing skills. In fact, personally, I almost always start a painting with a drawing, [...]
Guidelines for Pencil Portrait Drawing – Using Strong Lights and Darks
Value is one of the most troublesome elements of portraiture. The majority of artists are very hesitant about tone and do not push the shadows far enough. This is often because:
1. Their eyes are not yet trained to see the subtle variations.
2. The fear of losing a drawing.
Beginning artists can see large [...]
Tips on Pencil Portrait Drawing – the Construct
Suppose that we have a profile where the head, arm, and fingers are visible and are in contact. Very often, the starting artist will endeavor to draw each of these elements individually. The approach will always lead to frustration and ultimately often to disappointment.
Instead of drawing each item individually, the first step in your drawing [...]
5 Short Steps to Drawing the Perfect Rose
It’s not that difficult to draw a rose. It’s actually easier to draw a rose than it is to draw a decent circle. That’s because when you draw a rose you have many points of reference to compare and “triangulate” against.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
1. Design. Typically, a rose is tall and narrow, and [...]
Easy Pumpkin Painting.
A Must For Halloween, This Step-By-Step Guide Offers Instruction And Photos For Painting Cute, Whimsical Faces On Pumpkins.
Easy Pumpkin Painting.