Understanding How To See Surface Planes
Understanding form is paramount when trying to incorporate three dimension into your figure drawings. We have a pretty cool lesson for members of Drawing Tutorials Online in our Begin Here Step By Step course titled, you guessed it, “Understanding Form”.
Do You Draw With Too Much Detail?
After many years of trial and error I finally learned why my paintings and drawings looked flat. I was putting much too much detail everywhere. I was putting detail in the light, I was also rendering detail in the shadows. I was putting details in the background as well as the foreground.
Drawing From The Wrong Photo Reference
Have you ever tried to draw a portrait for a friend that didn’t go so well? You had a great photo of a friend or family member and when you tried to draw from it, it was not a good experience. It’s most likely the photo had front lighting from flash photography.
How To See Gesture
This video critique will help you to see and draw better gestures. Being able to see the gesture of a pose will certainly help you draw relaxed loose figures.
Madeleine’s Sketchbook – Part Two
If you are into cartoons you will definitely be into Madeleine’s drawings! Her sketchbooks are definitely authentic to say the least. You can really she Madeleine’s passion show through on each page. Her attention to detail within textures is really cool.
How To Draw A Three Dimensional Portrait
If you are looking to improve your portrait drawings watch the video critique below. In this video critique we help out Ilse with drawing a better likeness of the model within the photo plus achieve much more three dimension.
Sydney’s Sketchbook – Bouncy Cartoon Characters
What I love so much about Sydney is that she is super comfortable in her shoes. She is not wishy washy about what her work is all about. She loves drawing bouncy cartoon characters and she is really good at it.
How To Draw A Portrait With Minimal Shadow Shapes
Have you ever tried to draw a portrait where the person in the photo reference had no contrasting shadow shapes? In other words the lighting within the photo was very flat. When there aren’t many shadow shapes to draw it’s much more difficult to capture a likeness.
Natalie’s Sketchbook Part Two
Natalie’s sketchbooks totally rock! I totally appreciate you sharing your sketchbooks Natalie. They are really inspiring.
Ting’s Sketchbook
My favorite line of the sketchbook video – I love drawing with cheap bank pens. The cheaper the better I guess.
Nefer’s Sketchbook – Delicate & Detailed Line
Nefer is one of the many gifted students who has agreed to share her sketchbook with us all. Of course I get to review it each week in class. But sharing it with the World on Youtube is another story.
How To Get Better At Drawing Portraits
In an ever polarized internet where people feel very isolated something very different is happening at members.drawing-tutorials-online.com. People are not only connecting but they are learning how to improve their art in a consistent way.
Kaelin’s Sketchbook – Fun, Cute N’ Cartoony
If you are into fun, cute and cartoony looking characters you are going to be into Kaelin’s sketchbook.
How To Avoid Painting Uneven Skin Tones
Do you find yourself struggling with painting even looking skin tones? Do the skin tones that you paint look blotchy? Yea sounds awful. I used to struggle with this.
Ellis’s Sketchbook – Beautiful
Ellis’s characters are drawn with such super descriptive line, it makes you want to just sit and admire them . Ellis’s characters are totally drawn out of her imagination and are absolutely authentic.
Eunice’s Sketchbook – Giggle Art
Eunice’s sketchbook will definitely make you giggle today. Her work is really fun to look at and her laugh is contagious.
Sabrina’s Sketchbook
Her sense of color is really cool. I really like how she gives pages in her sketchbook a color theme. Sabrina draws some really interesting shaped characters which is another attribute about her work that I enjoy.
Hyoin’s Sketchbook
Having Hyoin as a student is pretty special. She powers in her life drawings with so much energy and passion. As Hyoin draws she fills most of the 18 x 24 pad which is what I love. There is nothing timid about her work.
How To Get More Dimension In Your Portrait Drawings
Understand and utilize surface planes when working on your portrait drawing to create more more dimension.
Madeleine’s Sketchbook – Total Power
I ask my students to fill two sketchbooks in a fifteen week semester, Madeleine completed her two in eight weeks. You definitely have to take note of that.