How to Draw What You See by Drawing Basic Shapes First – Easy Way to Learn How to Draw
Here is a basic guide to using geometric shapes, such as the cube, cylinder, sphere, pyramid, and cone to draw things you see in every day life.
How To Drawing Articles and Lessons
How to Draw Groups of People and Figures in Perspective – Size of Figures and Objects in an Illustration
Figuring out what size to draw people, animals, figures, and objects within an illustration is one of the hardest aspects of drawing, in my opinion. However, using perspective techniques will allow you to properly size things in relation to each other. The following cartooning tutorial will guide you through the process.
How to Draw and Animate a Person Walking or Running – Huge Guide and Tutorial
Today we will show you how to draw or animate the human figure walking or running. This drawing lesson is perfect for the person who wants to make an animation of a person walking or running...or for the artist who needs references of walking figures.
How to Draw the Human Torso and Chest – Body Figure Drawing Tutorial
Learn how to draw a person's chest and torso with the following drawing lesson. This tutorial will guide you through the process that artists use to draw the male and female torso.
How to Draw Portraits and Drawing People’s Faces and Heads
If you have never drawn a portrait of a human face, then this is a good starting point.
Learn How to Draw Human Figures in Correct Proportions by Memorizing Stick Figures
The human body is a work of art in itself and it seems impossible to draw it. However, there are proportions of the body that you should memorize and always keep in the back of your mind...and once you do this, the human body isn't so hard to draw at all. It is just these facts that should pull all everything together for you. Bookmark this page and come back to it for when you need it.
How to Draw the Face and Head in Perspective to Keep Correct Proportions When Slanting or Tilting Head
Drawing the face and head can be done without perspective techniques, however, it comes in handy when drawing it in relation to other objects or people. It also is very effective in helping the artist draw the human face and head when it is on a slant or tilt. This is when drawing faces becomes difficult.
How to Draw the Head in Perspective : Drawing Human Head in Perspective Tutorial
Everything that is drawn realistically is drawing with the laws of perspective, even if the artist doesn't realize that he or she is using them. Today we will tell you how to use perspective drawing techniques to draw more realistic human faces and heads.
How to Draw Human Head in the Right Measurements and Proportions
Your body and face are all basically in a specific proportion with everyone else. Of course people have different sized noses, chins, brows, etc....but, within a certain margin, you can know that the face will have certain measurements, within means.
Huge Guide to Drawing Folds in Clothing and Drapery with with Shadows and Light
Learn how to draw, shade, and highlight drapery and clothing folds. There are many forms that make up a fold and many different types of folds to learn how to draw. The following tutorial is a great guide to folds...so book mark this page and come back to it when you need it.
How to Draw Baby and Toddlers Heads in The Correct Proportions – Drawing Babies
Today we will show you how to draw a realistic baby face with the correct proportions. Drawing an adult face is hard enough, baby faces are so much more difficult. This article is also a reference sheet to the correct proportions of a baby and toddler head/face.
Proportions of the Human Figure : How to Draw the Human Figure in the Correct Proportions
Drawing the human figure doesn't just come down to talent, it also comes down to knowing some match and proportional knowledge. This tutorial is full of guidelines that you should save or memorize and use in all of your future artwork that contains people.
How to Shade Cubes : Adding Shadows to Cubes
We will show you each step to be taken in shading a cube in this tutorial, for this solid is a representative of all prisms, and, indirectly, of the cylinder.  Place the cube on a sheet of light brown paper, and pin against the wall behind it a similar sheet to serve for background. Let the light fall from the right and from above the cube. The top face will be the brightest of those seen, and the darkest will necessarily be that next the cast-shadow. Â
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How To Add Shadows to a 3D Cube (Shading Cubes) Step by Step Drawing Tutorial
STEP 1
Draw the cube carefully (reference this cube drawing tutorial here)and lightly in charcoal. Incorrect lines may be removed by dusting with the tinder. Do not draw with black-lead, as it is greasy, and will afterwards appear white in your shading.Â
How to Draw Aging Faces and Hands and Where to Draw Wrinkles on the Head and Face
This is one of those things that they really didn't teach me in art school...how to show age progression of a face. Here is some how-to tips for drawing old people's faces and hands. I hope that it helps you.
Learn How to Draw Children’s and Baby’s Faces in the Correct Proportions
A child's face and head is considerably different from an adult's face and head. That is why we need to learn the correct proportions of a child's head before trying to draw it. This article will educate you on the measurements of a child's head and guide you to drawing them in a thoughtful manner.
Drawing Live Models and How to Get the Best Poses : Quick Sketches with Charcoal
Sketching a live model can be tough, it is a lot of pressure to work fast and to get all the details while staring at a live human being. It is also hard to get the right pose. This lesson will guide you through that process.
How to Draw the Human Head in the Right Proportions and Measurements
Here is some background information about the face, its measurements and proportions. This is important to know to draw the head correctly. This article also goes over how to draw the facial expressions and emotions.
How to Draw Facial Expressions and Emotions – Drawing Tutorial
Here is in article all about drawing facial expressions and emotions on the human face. The drawing lesson can be found below...
How to Shade and Add Light to Complex Forms, Shapes and Objects : Drawing Tutorial
Learn how to see the whites, grays, and blacks in your drawings so you can form 3-dimensional objects. Drawing the light and shadows in forms and objects is a hard thing to learn, but hopefully this tutorial will give you some methods and techniques to use in your future drawings.
How to Use the Direction of Your Pencil Strokes for Better Drawings
Find out how to use your pencil effectively when representing your 3-dimensional object on a 2-dimensional piece of paper. The direction of your pencil strokes matter, in this article you will find out which direction to draw your pencil strokes in order to create the illusion of 3-dimensional objects.
Drawing a Human Figure in Correct Measurements and Proportions with Archaic Calculations
Here is a blurb from an old book that sheds light on how artists use to figure out the correct measurements and proportions of the human body.
How to Draw Female and Male Human Hips Drawing Tutorial
HOW TO DRAW FEMALE AND MALE HIPS DRAWING GUIDE
Because of the unusual shape of the hips, a simple concept must be conceived. Like the head it is square in concept and is tilted forward. It has six planes, front, back, two side top where the cage is attached and bottom where the legs come from. The hips consist of three major bones. The Pubis, the Illium in front and the Ischium behind. The lower end of the spinal column is wedged in between both blades at the Sacrum. The hips can bend with the cage or twist opposite the cage in many positions because of the spaces in the vertebra.
Drawing Human Faces / Heads – What Facial Features Determine Personality Traits
Physiognomists usually recognize five distinct types of profile: the convex, concave, perpendicular, convex-concave, and concave-convex. With each of these profile shapes there are different personality traits that these type of people usually have....find out how these profiles are classed in the following drawing tutorial.
How to Draw Human Legs and Feet Drawing Article
How to Draw human legs and feet with illustrated human anatomy of the legs and feet to help you learn to draw them properly.
Pencil Drawing : How to Draw with Pencils Lesson
Learn techniques for drawing with pencils with the following lesson for how to draw and shade with pencils.
How to Draw the Human Figure : Drawing Body, Head, Facial Features
A study of the human body and figure with the following drawing lessons of the human body, head, face, facial features and body proportions of children, women, and adults.
How to Draw the Movement of Shapes and People’s Figures
Learn how you draw figures and shapes in motion and in action with the following drawing lesson and tutorial for drawing shapes in movement.
Set Up a Still Life Drawings Lesson – How to Draw Still Lives
Arranging simple objects, such as kitchen utensils, fruits, etc., to make a pleasing composition is very good training for a student. Following are a few simple rules of composition which will prove helpful in your advanced work, as well as in still life.
Elementary Drawing – Outline Drawing and Making Outlines
There are three principal methods of expression in pictorial work: outline drawing, mass drawing and color work. The most important of these methods to the beginner is mass drawing.
Pencil Drawing – Art Supplies & Equipment That Pencil Artists Need
The pencil artist doesn't require many materials. The picture above illustrates all that the pencil illustrator / artist might need at the start; if necessary, he can do with less.