A Beginner’s Guide to Drawing Facial Features

If you want to draw lifelike portraits, knowing how to draw facial features is essential.

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Male Art Model Poses

Understand the levels of drawing and then use these male art model poses for your life and figure drawings and start to build your pose repertoire.

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Graphite Drawing Basics 101

When learning to draw with graphite pencil, knowing the fundamentals is key

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Only Six Steps to Exhibit-Worthy Pencil Portraits

If you focus on acquiring solid drawing skills, your painting will be much stronger. Read Nicholas Raynolds’s free step-by-step on drawing a portrait with graphite.

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Rembrandt and Homebrewing Brown Ink

The love for Rembrandt’s rich brown ink set one artist on the path of trying to discover how to homebrew according to the Old Master’s lost recipe — or one close to it — for that signature ink.

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Did He Have a Lust for Line?

Van Gogh had a distinctive mark-making style that is not solely illustrated through his paintings. For him, portrait drawing was an outlet for his lust for line.

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4 Easy Strategies for Creative Thinking

Grab a pencil and get drawing with these four strategies to help creative thinking, excerpted from the book “Keys to Drawing with Imagination” by Bert Dodson.

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Sketch While You Wait | The Artist’s Answer to Airport Boredom

Here’s how to sketch people at the airport without seeming, well, sketchy.

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Drawing Lessons from Michelangelo

If the High Renaissance had a leading man, Michelangelo Buonarroti would be one of the last artists standing.

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5 Figure Drawing Tips

Five pieces of figure drawing advice straight from the experts. Learn how to position your arm, begin a drawing, avoid “balloon torsos” and more.

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How to Draw Roses | A Beginner Step by Step

Here is a true beginner’s step by step demonstration of how to draw roses in graphite pencil–from the first mark to make to the last–from painter and art instructor Gigi Chen.

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Drawing Roses in Graphite Pencil and Colored Pencil | Two Demonstrations

Gorgeous color and fun organic shapes make up every single rose–and every single rose drawing. Discover how to draw a rose from stem to bloom step by step in graphite pencil and colored pencil in two drawing roses demonstrations from Gigi Chen.

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Learn a Lesson in Drawing from Master Artist Thomas Hart Benton

Artist Thomas Hart Benton’s work is a cornerstone of modern art in many ways. He laid groundwork for much of contemporary art, and drawing was his thing!

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