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Drawing Difficult Textures

Capture Your Space With Pen and Ink

Composing Drawings While on Location

Choosing & Using Sketchbooks

Effortless Watercolor Washes

As many of us have found out the hard way, getting a perfectly even watercolor wash can be challenging. Watercolors seemingly have a mind of their own, more so than... View Content

How to Draw Realistic Hair for Portraits

The number one thing you need to remember about drawing realistic hair: don't get caught up in all those individual strands. As with so many aspects of drawing, less is... View Content

How to Paint a Pine Tree in Acrylic

With all those branches, leaves and bark, painting a robust pine tree can be a fun experience to dive into. Whether you're painting one from your own backyard or painting... View Content

5 Tips for Drawing Realistic Eyes in Portraits

When it comes to drawing facial features, the eyes can be challenging because, well, realistically capturing "the windows to the soul" is no easy task. And while you probably learned... View Content

How to Draw Facial Features and Capture Likeness

So you've mastered drawing a head — now, perfecting the facial features of your subject is a must. The eyes, nose, mouth and ears makes your drawing unique and gives... View Content

The Basics of Three-Point Perspective

When one- and two-point perspectives begin to break down, three-point perspective gives you the ability to make far more dynamic drawings. View Content

Everything You Need to Know About Drawing With Charcoal

When it comes to black and white drawing, no other medium is as rich and satisfying as charcoal. Here's a step-by-step tutorial demonstrating the basics of drawing with charcoal. View Content

Rules of Thumb: The Art of Drawing Hands

If there is any other part of the human body that intimidates artists as much as facial features, it might be the hands. Drawing hands that look right can be... View Content

The Artist's Studio: How to Stretch Your Own Canvas

In this day and age when you can buy a pre-stretched, pre-primed canvas in virtually any size, there's still nothing quite like the feeling of doing it yourself. View Content

Hatching and Cross Hatching: 6 Basic Forms

One of the most important tools you can have at your disposal as an artist is a strong knowledge of hatching. Let’s take a look at six basic forms of... View Content

Beautiful Watercolor Portraits: 5 Steps to Success

The idea of painting a portrait in watercolor can be downright intimidating. Instructor Paul Heaston shares his top tricks to get you started. View Content

One-Point Perspective: Drawing a Room

Until artists figured out perspective, there was no accurate system for drawing architecture or other geometric space. In fact, linear perspective was only discovered about 500 years ago, long after... View Content

Drawing a Realistic Head: Bringing Faces to Life

Heads and faces are some of the trickiest things to draw. These 9 simple steps and expert tips will help you draw more realistic people with accurate proportions. View Content

Hues, Tints, Tones and Shades: What's the Difference?

A lot of us use the terms hue, tint, tone and shade when referring to color, but did you know each of these terms has a very specific meaning? For... View Content

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