Drawing and Painting Tutorials

If you're looking for some inspiration, take a look at these 27 photo realistic drawings from some of the best artists in the world. Prepare to be blown away.

This lesson explains some of the techniques and steps you can take to draw better profile portraits. Among other useful tips, it explains how to sketch accurate facial proportions, outline stands of hair and shade with hatching lines.

This drawing tutorial explains the process of drawing a portrait with charcoal. It shows you how to construct the simple geometry of the face and helps you understand how to fit the parts properly into the whole portrait.

In this tutorial, you'll be shown how to use advanced graphite drawing techniques to create a profile portrait of a young man. The lesson contains four sections: planning composition, planning shading, drawing a detailed outline, and adding shading.

Red Pill or Blue pill? Which one would you take? If you chose red, then this drawing tutorial is for you. It will show you how to draw neo from the matrix (the guy who took the red pill) and give you some tips about using digital drawing tools to create cool compositions.

This tutorial shows you how to paint a portrait of Ava Gardner, the actress. The tips contained here will help you become a better artist and also improve your oil painting skills.

This drawing tutorial explains the various techniques you can use to draw profile portraits of babies. It shows you how to understand infants' facial proportions, plan and sketch and shade the face and hair.

This step by step drawing tutorial shares some of the techniques and tools used to draw portraits in graphite. It covers everything from the sketch process to the final shading.

If you're interested in learning about some of the drawing techniques used by Michelangelo, this tutorial is a good place to start. It gives you the chance to learn about sketching proportions, outlining the head and shading with hatching lines using the drawing styles and techniques of Michelangelo.

This tutorial explains the process of drawing a portrait of woman's face from a three-quarter view. Among other useful tips, you'll learn how to sketch proportions, refine the facial features, render detailed outlines, and define forms with light values.

There are several techniques you can use to draw portraits in pencil. This tutorial covers some of those techniques in great detail, and shows you how to use grid lines and shading to give your portraits a sense of realism.

Follow the steps in this tutorial if you want to learn how to draw a portrait of Marilyn Monroe. The tutorial contains several useful tips and techniques you can apply to all portrait images you may decide to draw in the future.

When it comes to creating designs in Photoshop, the only limit is your creativity. This splatter paint effect tutorial showcases the photo editing possibilities in Photoshop and gives you a chance to add your creative touch to images.

If you're bored of using the default Photoshop effects, this tutorial will give you a glimpse of how to start creating your own effects using different tools and techniques. It's a fairly extensive tutorial, so you should make sure you have a lot of time on your hands before attempting to follow the steps!