How to Draw What You See
People will always tell you to use a reference, but sometimes you have a photo right in front of you, and your drawing still turns…
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How to Use Blender to Learn About Light and Shadow
If you don’t want your art to look flat, you need to shade it. But darkening certain parts is not enough—you need to know which…
How to Practice Drawing Using the Scientific Method
If you ask any artist how to become as good as them, they most likely will reply: “you need to practice”. And while this is…
How to Study Animal Anatomy
If you’re interested in drawing animals, sooner or later you’ll hear from more experienced artists that you need to learn animal anatomy. That this is…
100 Poses Challenge: Lionesses
They say that practice makes perfect, but how to practice drawing? In most cases it’s not that simple, but there is one kind of exercise…
11 Simple Drawing Exercises to Train Your 3D Intuition
Drawing is largely an intuitive process. Artists tend to not think about the position, shape, and angle of every line—instead, they test what “feels” right…
How to Start a Drawing
When you think of a thing to draw, in your imagination it’s a real, 3D object. But you can’t draw a real, 3D object—you can…
How to Draw Organic 3D Shapes by Hand
Most artists learn how to draw 3D forms through the process of trial and error, and after a while their intuition tells them what to…
What Are Art Studies and How to Do Them
Imagine two competitors in an obstacle course race. Competitor A visits the course before the race. They walk slowly, analyzing each obstacle, and testing various…
How to Learn to Draw by Tracing
Tracing has a real bad name in the artistic community, and for a good reason—an artist can spend years to learn how to draw a…
I Want to Draw, But I Don’t Know How to Start
There are plenty of beginner tutorials for people who want to learn how to draw. But it’s like there’s no order to them—one’s teaching you…
How to Fix Proportions in Your Drawing
Let’s say you’re drawing something from a photo reference, and you can see something is wrong—you’re not sure what exactly, but your drawing looks different…
How to Get Motivated to Draw
Read these articles if you need motivation to draw!
Drawing 101: How to Draw Proportions
Proportions are probably the most important element of realistic drawing. No matter how much time you spend on your artwork, if you mess up the…
Drawing 101: How to Draw Form and Volume
Drawing is an art of illusion—flat lines on a flat sheet of paper look like something real, something full of depth. To achieve this effect,…