Drawing and Painting Tutorials

"Still Life is the best subject in art for learning and teaching the skills of drawing and painting. It teaches you how to look at objects and see them like an artist - with a conscious awareness of their outline, shape, proportions, tone, color, texture, form and composition. "

"Walking With Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie is released in UK cinemas next month and Twentieth Century Fox has just releases the featurette below. Featuring hints and tips on drawing your own dinosaurs, the clip also give details of how they developed the character of Gorgon, from his Cheetah like speed based on science to his intriguing colouring  for the screen"

The key to drawing reflections with ease is to stop trying to look at each object in your drawing as a separate entity - a tree, a person, a river - and think purely in terms of shapes and values.

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).

This lesson focuses on the subjects of perspective and vanishing points. 

The video shows a very quick sketch of a room (which is made up) that demonstrates the two point linear perspective, which is the most commonly used by artists. Notice the two vanishing points on the horizon. In this case both of the vanishing points are inside the sheet of paper. This is not always the case. When drawing, the vanishing points will always be on the horizon. The horizon will always be on the level of the eyes of the observer. Notice how on the sketch all the parallel lines converge to the same vanishing point. 

Drawing interior spaces is a very good way to understand perspective. For practice, try drawing the rooms inside your house.

Let's face it - everyone likes fantasy. And girls. And fantasy girls. Not everyone can draw them though. Follow this tutorial and hopefully you'll learn a lot about painting your own fantasy character!

Start with a basic sketch of the pose of your character. No details, just rough lines. If you don’t feel so sure about your anatomy/pose skills, don’t hesitate to use one of SenshiStock references (link above). One tip about it: if your goal is to be able to draw any pose without references in the future, don’t just trace the picture, place it next to you and try to draw the lines you see. DON’T DRAW OVER THEM! You’d get a perfect copy this way, but it would not teach you anything.

Follow this winter holiday inspired tutorial and learn how to create realistic Christmas baubles in Adobe Illustrator. At the beginning we will create the shape

"Butterfly wings can be very different, small or big, wide or narrow, colorful or transparent, round or ragged. However, there are features common to all kinds of butterflies.

When it comes to the structure of the wings, it’s the same for all butterflies. Butterfly wings are basically triangular, with three margins that round their shape – costal, outer and inner one. The forewings have also an apex that makes them longer."

"We all have them, but I’m sure that most of us haven’t really paid attention to what it really looks like up close."

This is my first castle I ever drew. When I think of castles I think about King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Castles are magical because lots ...

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.

Learn how to draw feet: art book for the beginner artist, complete with foot drawings and illustrations to help teach you how to draw