Drawing Tips: Learn to Sketch and Draw Better with these Tutorials

In today’s tutorial I’ll be using pastels to create a realistic portrait of a dog. I like to use soft pastels for blocking in color, and hard pastels (combined with pastel pencils) for creating detail. . . read more

In this tutorial I’m going to show you the quickest and easiest way to create a nice, moody, black and white portrait with charcoal. Here are my tools of the trade. . . read more

Pencils are just one of the many mediums in which artists communicate. They are also the most basic of mediums. They are easy to control and use and usually set the foundation for your artwork - remember outlines?. . . read more

Like any other art process, figure drawing is a fluid activity and impossible to pin down with exact rules—but if your goal is to create a more convincing life drawing, then these next few ideas will certainly help.. . . read more

I do a lot of blending in my art, and after going through quite a few tortillons over the years, I decided to make my own. Luckily, tortillons are fairly easy to make. Here's my process:. . . read more

The most important part of a drawing is the start, not the finish. This tutorial will focus on how to start a portrait drawing, using basic blocking-in techniques.. . . read more

The techniques I use to produce my drawings range from the traditional handling of the pencil, to a glazing technique using powdered graphite to enhance darks. Here are a few of my methods. . . read more

Almost all colored pencil instructional books cover topics like varying pressure, burnishing, blending, edging and lifting. These techniques are great - but drawing super-realistic colored pencil artwork will take a different skill.. . . read more

Today’s post contains quite a few resources for anyone interested in learning to draw at a college level without paying an expensive tuition. It’s also the second post in my series on getting an art education for free.. . . read more