21st February 2008
Have that ever happened to you before? You start drawing a face to find that when you're done, it's nowhere near the person that you're trying to draw?
The problem is that all faces are a unique combination of a set of features. When we take these feat...
20th February 2008
We're all artists, right? That gives us the right and the license to be creative with our works. Otherwise, why even bother to create a pencil sketch out of a photo in the first place?
But having that right means having the responsibility to exercise s...
20th February 2008
Some pencil sketch tutorials will ask you to shade squares just to get some blending practice. But I find that ineffective and exceedingly boring. And I tell myself there must be a better way to learn pencil sketching.
The problem with shading squares ...
19th February 2008
Yes, I did say in just a few minutes. In fact, it's important that we complete the sketch as quickly as we can. Why is that so? That's because unlike a still object (as in drawing still life), live horses move around.
It's just like trying to draw a ba...
19th February 2008
I don't think you're going to want to sketch your dream car from memory, so I'm going to assume that you'll need some help trying to remember all the little details on your dream car.
You may want to refer to some images for your pencil drawing. The te...
19th February 2008
The first thing that you should notice about the tutorial is whether it has a clear objective. What exactly is the tutorial trying to teach you? If the objective is hard to grasp, I can assure you it's not going to be a tutorial that you like. Without a s...
23rd January 2008
A great looking color pencil drawing isn't all that hard to create, if you know the two tips that I'm about to share with you. Before I go into that, I want to just say that if you haven't been doing your sketches, now is the time to start picking up that...
23rd January 2008
If you're looking for good color pencil drawing tutorials, I believe you have already mastered pencil drawing. Pencil drawing lays the foundation for color drawing. It's hard to produce an excellent color drawing without a sound foundation. So if you have...
22nd January 2008
I just didn’t know where else to go to look for guidance and direction, and my problems remained unsolved. I just hate it when that happens. I don’t like my problems unsolved. If I don’t solve them, I don’t grow. And if I don’t grow, that means ...
22nd January 2008
The first type of boring pencil drawing tutorials are just too short. There are a few pictures in various stages, and underneath you find a few captions, and that’s it. The captions are short sentences that explain the technique. They are useful but the...
22nd January 2008
Many artists have struggled with pencil drawing and have not really gotten good at it. They then move on to paint with colors, and when they find that they face the same basic drawing problems, they choose to ignore them and make up some excuse so that th...
21st January 2008
If you've been visiting the thousands and thousands of drawing website available on the Internet, chances are you're getting pretty tired of not getting the information that you're looking for. To solve that problem, let's take a look at what makes an exc...
19th January 2008
Are you having problems locating a good pencil sketch drawing tutorial? If you have, I hope this article will give you some insight as to why good pencil sketch tutorials are so hard to come by.
You see, all good pencil sketch tutorials should contain ...
