Drawing

Artists that love figure drawing or life drawing should practice their face drawing techniques to perfect them.

Nov 29, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Choosing the right sketching supplies helps an artist sketch more, and no sketching supply is more important than a good sketchbook.

Oct 20, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Drawing cartoon babies gives an artist the chance to exaggerate body proportions in fun ways. Plus, it's a great drawing project for kids.

Sep 7, 2009 - Alina Bradford

It is important to give kids simple drawing exercises, like this baby monkey cartoon character, to boost confidence in drawing skills.

Aug 20, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Sometimes an artist just needs to produce art to hone their skills. The hard part is coming up with drawing ideas. This list will keep an artist busy for a whole month.

Aug 8, 2009 - Alina Bradford

When many people think of colored pencil, they think children's art supply. Using advanced colored pencil techniques, though, the artist can create paint-like drawings.

Aug 6, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Whether drawing birds, angels or gryphon's, it is important to know how to draw feathers.

Jun 19, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Being able to draw wings is a staple of fantasy, anime, manga, sci fi and cartoon art. Luckily, just a few simple steps are needed to create a wide-range of wing types.

Jun 18, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Drawing clothing is an essential part of figure drawing. The artist should know how to translate the folds, wrinkles and creases they see into convincing lines on paper.

May 30, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Drawing realistic architecture relies on a basic understanding of perspective and basic 3-dimensional shapes.

May 24, 2009 - Alina Bradford

No object can be drawn without an understanding of advanced 3-dimensional shapes including the cube, prism and pyramid.

May 22, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Spring not only brings new life to Mother Earth, it can also bring new life to an artist's sketchbook.

Feb 19, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Fashion designer/ fashion sketch artist Rachel Burt shows budding fashion artists what they need to know to create fashion designs and fabric sketches.

Jan 21, 2009 - Alina Bradford

Drawing manga is easy as long as you follow some basic principals when drawing the head.

Dec 31, 2008 - Alina Bradford

Christmas stockings are a fun image to draw on the blustery days leading up to the big holiday. Their simple shapes make them easy for anyone, even children, to draw.

Nov 25, 2008 - Alina Bradford

Many young artists think that teeth are just blocks of white drawn into the mouth. Teeth are actually formed from drawing the negative space around each tooth.

Nov 15, 2008 - Alina Bradford

Drawing and sketching evergreen trees is simple and can be done with short, dashing strokes of the pencil to create bark, needles, and the general shape of the tree.

Sep 27, 2008 - Alina Bradford

Drawing and sketching deciduous trees is easy when several simple methods are used.

Sep 27, 2008 - Alina Bradford

One-point perspective helps the artist draw images are three-dimensional using a vanishing point, horizon line, and orthogonal lines.

Sep 4, 2008 - Alina Bradford

Watercolor and vellum papers have unique qualities that can be a help or a hinder to the colored pencil artist.

Aug 29, 2008 - Alina Bradford

Most people think of pencils when they think of drawing, but there are many other drawing tools for creating a drawing, sketch, comic, or cartoon.

Jun 19, 2008 - Alina Bradford

There are many kinds of drawing pencils; here's an overview of lead hardness, line darkness, and varieties of pencils for drawing.

Jun 10, 2008 - Alina Bradford

Here are tips and tricks to help make your hand drawing fears fade away.

May 7, 2008 - Alina Bradford

How to use simple principals to draw realistic children.

Apr 20, 2008 - Alina Bradford

The talented Cynthia Cummens shows us how to draw a dragon in this article for Painting at Suite 101.

Jan 11, 2008 - Alina Bradford