Drawing and Painting Tutorials

Learn how you draw figures and shapes in motion and in action with the following drawing lesson and tutorial for drawing shapes in movement.

Once you have learned to see and know shapes, the next most important thing is learning to see and know the movements of shapes. Each thing, each person moves in a way all his own. We all walk, but we all walk in our own way. You can recognize a friend by the way he walks, even though he may be in disguise. Animals walk, run, and move each in its own way. Even trees move in their own way as they grow or when the wind tosses them.

A how to draw a shoggoth tutorial step by glorious step.  This is the exact same way I do my zombie comic.

A bicycle or bike is a kind of extreme. Before drawing a bike I tried to find out why people like it so much. It is our two-wheeled friend

Follow along as we use easy, step-by-step instructions to teach you how to draw a cartoon mermaid. Page 6.

Witches can be approached in so many different ways, as they have appeared in so many forms. They can be beautiful or grotesque, good or evil, young or old, but whatever their appearance, they are masters of magic potions and spellwork. Use this step-by-step tutorial as a guide and as a source of inspiration as you undertake your very own drawing...

Based on a request from a reader, we move back to the urban environment. This time focusing on a variety of roof types, and how they might be depicted in a map. A lot of fantasy cartographers limit themselves to the outlines of buildings when they draw maps for their towns, but I find that adding in roof lines creates a sense of depth and detail. I could easily add more detail regarding towns and urban environments, but for the moment this will do...the next few tutorials will move back to nature.

In this tutorial, we’ll take on the dreaded foreshortened finger (in this case, the pointer).  The hand is often considered the most difficult of all subjects to draw, partly because we so often see the fingers from angles that conflict with our mental shorthand of them as tube-shaped.

Through the magic of right-brained seeing, though, the foreshortened finger becomes fairly easy to draw because it’s seen as a shape like any other shape.

In fact, it occurs to me that the much-feared foreshortened finger may actually be the best tool to help shift you  to right-brained seeing.  Its shape is so alien to our standardized image of “finger” that we have no other choice than to abstract how we see it.  Look at the schematic below to illustrate this (with continuing apologies for my blue smashed fingernail).

Want to Learn How to Draw Mountains? Follow our simple step-by-step drawing lessons. We have drawing tutorials with animals, superheroes and more cool stuff.

This series of "How to Draw Caricatures" tutorials are a just a small taste of a larger and much more in-depth book I wrote called The Mad Art of Caricature! The book is 175 full-color pages, lavis...

The following tutorial will walk you step-by-step through digitally coloring in Adobe Photoshop.  In this easy-to-follow tutorial, I’ll show you how to paint  a cute cartoon character portrait sketch. The great thing is that you can easily apply these techniques to your other projects. Though I’ll be coloring with a character sketch, you can apply skills from this tutorial to any digital coloring projects that you want.

Perhaps there are not many such people who do not like cartoons.
If you're not one of them and want to learn how to create your own cartoon characters, I recommend you to read this tutorial.

In this 4 part tutorial, we move through analysis of form, to drawing details to abstraction through gesture drawing. See Part 1: INTRODUCTION See Part 2: GEOMETRIC SHAPES  Now I want you to build ...

Join the Fun and Learn How to Draw Disney Characters. Go through our step-by-step drawing tutorials. We have drawing lessons with animals, superheroes and more cool stuff.

Creating a horse drawing step by step