GRID DRAWING LESSONS : How to Draw with Grids with the Following Tutorials

Drawing Trees : How to Draw Realistic Trees and Foliage

I've recently been asked by a few artists for assistance with the drawing of trees. As with most subjects this one can be broken down into easy-to-manage parts - as I shall explain...

Drawing Hair and Fur - an Introduction : Graphite Pencil Techniques

I cannot stress this too much or too often — Pencils do not draw hairs. Pencil marks only define the position and shape of hairs. Well, that may be a little too simplistic - there will be occasions when a dark hair overlays a patch of white hair and requires a positive pencil stroke. And pencils certainly add the required tonal values to hairs. But in general use a pencil line does not represent a hair — it forms the boundary between hairs.

Drawing a Photo-Realistic Eye Lesson

This is a tutorial constructed from my latest YouTube video, in which you can see all the key steps of this illustration as they are drawn, much of it in real time

Instruction for Charcoal & Graphite Pencil Artists

This drawing tutorial contains techniques to create realistic looking artwork to provide fellow charcoal and graphite pencil artists insight into my methods. The first half of the page will explain the pencils and blending tools I use to render both rough and smooth textures. Once you know how to create realistic looking textures, you're on you way to creating much more realistic looking artwork.

Photo-realistic Drawing Lesson

How to make Photo-realistic Drawings with the following tutorial

Photorealist Techniques and Methods

Photorealist painting is marked by thorough attention to detail, in which the artist strives to accurately reproduce every detail in the photo onto the canvas. The completed artworks are usually air-brushed or handpainted in acrylics or oils. Before embarking on a large-scale painting, photorealist artists often create small studies in colored pencils or watercolors, which are generally impressive artworks in their own right.

Realistic Pencil Portrait

There isn't really much of a "secret" to drawing in this style. I was first introduced to this technique by one of my teachers, L.A. Times illustrator, Richard Milholland. He explained it very simply—you just get a sharp pencil, smooth Bristol board, and draw in the itty-bitty details. His own work was known for its scary photo-realistic detail, so I was a little amazed that this was all that there was to it! But that was it!

The Secrets of Realistic Drawings - There are enough styles of drawing, modern, surrealism. But the most pure of all art is the reproduction of realistic likeness. What does this mean to you? Realism is the reproduction of something that is the same likeness of what you see; what is real.

REALISTIC DRAWINGS

How to Draw Realistic Ears

This tutorial will show you how to approach drawing realistic ears in a way that will make drawing them seem like a piece of cake.

How to Draw Young Children : Carbon, and Graphite Portrait Tutorial

Learn how to draw beautiful young children with this step by step drawing tutorial demonstration.