Back on YouTube After A Long Break
It’s been a while since I recorded a new video for Youtube, but I’m glad to be back at it. This one features Kelsey, who…
It’s been a while since I recorded a new video for Youtube, but I’m glad to be back at it. This one features Kelsey, who…
Today I published a new video to Youtube – it’s one of the time-lapse portrait drawing demonstrations I do from time to time. What I…
I’m not a big fan of “laws” in drawing and painting. There’s an exception to every rule, so it seems that whenever I tell a…
I love drawing with graphite. Nothing beats the control and precision offered by a sharp graphite pencil. But there’s one thing I hate about graphite:…
I’m currently working on a portrait drawing of my niece Frances. Actually, she’s not my niece. She’s my wife’s cousin’s daughter, which I think makes…
In my last post on perspective, I distinguished between linear and atmospheric (or aerial) perspective. Linear perspective is concerned with the geometry of parallel lines…
The basic principles of perspective are a cornerstone of representational art and must be understood if we are to make convincing drawings and paintings. Yet…
In the last couple of drawing tutorials I described how Comparisons of Size can help us work out the proportions of the figure – the…
Comparisons of Size Next in our series of drawing tutorials is a discussion of size. Getting proportion right is really all about size relationships and…
In this and the next two drawing tutorials I plan to discuss measurement and its applications in drawing. One of the best drawing teachers I…