Drawing and Painting Tutorials

This article outlines the various techniques you can use to improve your pencil drawing skills in a few simple steps. It covers aspects of pencil drawing such as pencil selection, handle lines, shading, drawing perspective, and much more.

This tutorial walks you through the process of drawing a stereo receiver in Photoshop. You'll learn about advanced layering techniques, different tools, and how to use effects to create interesting textures.

This drawing tutorial is for cat-lover that wants to transform their love for cats into pencil drawings. In addition to being fun, this tutorial is also a great way to learn about intermediate drawing techniques and how to add fine details to drawings.

This drawing tutorial is a great way to learn about adding focal points to your drawings. More often than not, artists forget what object they want their viewer to focus on, resulting in a confusing or amateurish composition. This tutorial attempts to explain the steps you can take to make your compositions look professional.

This tutorial covers the different steps involved in drawing different animal poses on adobe illustrator. The article attempts to simplify the anatomy of an animal into simple shapes based on the shape of the body, its position and perspective. You can use this tutorial as a guide for any animal drawings you may want to do in the future.

This simple tutorial for beginners will show you how to create a basic lion drawing using a series of lines. The purpose of this tutorial is mainly to learn about lines of symmetry and how to create quick sketches for various projects.

In the spirit of the Olympic season, you are welcome to try out this drawing tutorial that explains how to draw an Olympic scene using the picsart app. The tutorial is fairly straightforward, but the results will make you a bigger fan of the Olympics.

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.

This comprehensive tutorial provides some useful tips about how to hold a watercolor brush. While the majority of artists are already accustomed to the traditional "classic grip" of holding a brush (as seen in the picture above), the tutorial goes on to explain additional techniques such as the pinch, pass the pencil, screwdriver, conductor, and sumi-e.

This tutorial covers the various tools and techniques you can use to create abstract designs on adobe illustrator. You can also use the tips in this tutorial to improve your digital drawing skills on adobe illustrator.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to draw manga eyes for male characters. The tutorial covers topics such drawing the iris, adding glares to the eyes, shading light areas, and shaping eyes to match the character you're drawing.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to sketch and shade the human nose in a few simple steps. This is a great way for any beginner artist to learn about the anatomy and proportions of the nose. Check it out.

This tutorial explains the process of creating one point perspective drawings on Adobe Illustrator. Whether you're a digital artist or a beginner artist learning about vanishing points and perspective, this tutorial is for you.

Sometimes paintings are so lifelike they may easily pass as regular photographs. Although it may require a lot of time and expertise, it is entirely possible to create photo-realistic paintings on photo editing software such as Photoshop. This step-by-step tutorial explains how to create a photorealistic swan image with Photoshop.

This drawing tutorial describes a few drawing techniques you can use to compose better graphite drawings. It covers techniques such as hatching and crosshatching,  rendering, blending, and cross contour lines. It also comes with a video that explains everything in visual steps.

If you own a drawing tablet and want to challenge yourself with adobe illustrator's advanced features, this tutorial is for you. It explains the process of creating a graffiti design using a variety of painting tools and drawing techniques that require you to think outside of the box.

This tutorial explains the process of drawing a beautiful bird using Photoshop. It covers elements of design such as layering, texture, and shading, and contains some useful tips about adding a sense of depth and complexity to your drawing.