This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. Enjoy! We have learned how to draw many animals so far, dogs, cats, even wolves, but now it’s time to tackle the real dragons – lizards!…
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The main problem with drawing from imagination lies in guessing. You know you want to draw a lion, but you don’t really know what it looks like, so you have to guess how to arrange the lines to create an impression of a lion. And you cannot really succeed by guessing – drawing the same…
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This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. Enjoy! Perspective is something that brings math and geometry to mind, and it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with free, creative drawing you’re interested…
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This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. Enjoy! The purpose of my previous lengthy introduction was to make you aware of the challenge of drawing from imagination. We can draw symbols just fine,…
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I found a nice photo of a fawn, and I wanted to check if I can replicate its delicate shading. So here it is—I painted it pretty fast, and I think I learned something about keeping things simple. Scroll down if you want to see the process! 1. Basic Colors I sketched the fawn and…
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This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. Enjoy! I’ve always loved drawing animals, but I despised using references for a long time. I wanted to draw freely, without having to search for a…
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This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. Enjoy! Last time we learned How to Draw Wolves. Today… we’ll be still drawing them, because dogs are actually domesticated wolves! This means you already know…
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This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. Enjoy! In my recent tutorial I showed you how to draw our furry friends, domestic cats. But did you know that you can use this knowledge…
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This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. Enjoy! Wolves are beautiful, noble animals, wild and mysterious. So similar to our domestic dogs, yet unique. And even though we all can recognize a wolf…
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This post has been originally commissioned for SketchBook Blog in 2016. After the site’s migration, the original is no longer available, but you can still access the content here. Enjoy! Cats are amazing animals—they’re fluffy and cute, yet they’re not really so different from their wild cousins. Having one is like having a miniature panther…
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