Pencil Drawing Fundamentals – the Preparatory Phase
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 [...]
Pencil Drawing Fundamentals – the Detail Phase
 Each drawing effort starts with the Preparatory Phase followed by the Line Drawing Phase. After that come the Shading Phase and the Blending Phase. Finally, almost as an afterthought, the procedure ends with the Detail Phase.
The Detail Phase consists of judiciously adding small accents in such a way that they enhance the drawing. Here are [...]
Pencil Drawing Fundamentals – the Line Drawing Phase
In this article we deal with the line drawing phase. We assume that we already have a gridded reference picture of the correct size at our disposal.
Your reference image will often be too large for most printers to print in one piece. To get around this you could print the image in pieces on plain [...]
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, [...]