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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 [...]

In this stage of portrait drawing, we shall discuss how to progress on the face where eyes are already located and nearly drawn. The drawing of nose and mouth would be our next agenda.
NOSE: if we look at nose of a person, we can see that it looks like a series of curves. Thus there [...]

Any scene can initially be seen as a composition of a series of forms that are all related to four basic geometric solids: the brick, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. In this article we concentrate on the cone, i.e., we will detail its properties and its place in the overall scheme of a [...]

If you are going to work from a photograph in conjunction with the grid-method you will need to transform your photograph into a useful reference image.
The procedure I will describe works quite well and I have personally been using it for quite a while. As you get more experience you can easily adapt the process [...]

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It is said that drawing is an instinctual ability of a person, which is found innately in him or her. But with the recent development in the realm of drawing books, the inborn conception of the people has changed greatly due to some obvious reasons.
It is said that an effective drawing instruction book can have [...]

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Sketching in general entails 4 distinct elements: line, value, texture, and shape. In the special case of pencil portrait drawing we can refine the list of elements to six: shape, proportion, anatomy, texture, value, and planes.
In this article we will give a detailed description of each of those pencil portrait drawing elements.
(1) Form Shape or [...]