How To Drawing Articles and Lessons

Value Scale Exercises and How to Use Value Scales to Improve Your Drawings

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Use value scales in your drawings - value scales exercises for beginners

Today we are going to work on mastering values and tones in your drawings. This is just one of the many things that you will need to learn in order to become a master drawer/artist.

Tones/values occur in nearly every part of a drawing that you will create. Learning how to create the perfect value for each spot on the drawing is what will turn your artwork into a masterpiece. But before you learn how to master tones/values in your drawings, you will have to work on your craft, which means, ughh, drawing exercises. Sorry. read more

How to Draw and Shade a Sphere or Ball – Step by Step Drawing Tutorial

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how to draw a sphere or ball with shading graphite pencils step by step drawing tutorial

Today I will show you how to turn a circle into a 3-dimensional sphere, ball, or orb. In order to turn a circle into a sphere, you will need to use specific shading techniques to accomplish this. In this tutorial, I use graphite pencils, H, 2B, 3B, and 4B. This lesson will help you learn how to shade a beautiful sphere. 

How to Draw What You See by Drawing Basic Shapes First – Easy Way to Learn How to Draw

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drawing with cubes

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 Draw Groups of People and Figures in Perspective – Size of Figures and Objects in an Illustration

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How to Draw Groups of People and Figures in Perspective - Size of Figures 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

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How to Draw and Animate the Human Figure 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.

Learn How to Draw Human Figures in Correct Proportions by Memorizing Stick Figures

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drawing people by remembering the human proportions and relationships towards each other

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

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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

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How to Draw the Head in Perspective : Drawing Human Head in Perspective

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

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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

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Huge Guide to Drawing and Shadowing Folds Clothing and Drapery

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

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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

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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

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How to add shadows to a cube

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.   

 

How To Add Shadows to a 3D Cube (Shading Cubes) Step by Step Drawing Tutorial

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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.  read more

How to Draw Aging Faces and Hands and Where to Draw Wrinkles on the Head and Face

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How to Draw Aging Faces and Hands and Where to Draw Wrinkles on the Head and Face Tutorial

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

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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

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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 Shade and Add Light to Complex Forms, Shapes and Objects : Drawing Tutorial

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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

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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.

How to Draw Female and Male Human Hips Drawing Tutorial

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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. read more

Drawing Human Faces / Heads – What Facial Features Determine Personality Traits

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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 the Human Figure : Drawing Body, Head, Facial Features

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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.

Set Up a Still Life Drawings Lesson – How to Draw Still Lives

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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.