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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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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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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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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Here’s how to sketch people at the airport without seeming, well, sketchy.
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If the High Renaissance had a leading man, Michelangelo Buonarroti would be one of the last artists standing.
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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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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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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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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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It is such a confusing controversy that is more interesting than heated, and yet the question remains: is it pastel drawing or pastel painting?
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Advice on how to draw facial expressions including happiness, sadness and surprise.
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