Why Learn to Draw When You Can Trace?
Can tracing help you develop your drawing skills? Learning to draw well is difficult. It can take years of practice and good instruction and even…
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What is Perspective?
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…
Drawing Tutorials: Comparative Measurement, Part III
In the last couple of drawing tutorials I described how Comparisons of Size can help us work out the proportions of the figure – the…
Drawing Tutorials: Comparative Measurement, Part II
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…
Drawing Tutorials: Comparative Measurement, Part I
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…