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Drawing and Painting Tutorials
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Daily curated tips and tutorials for graphic designers, photo editors, painters, and drawing artists.
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This tutorial explains the process of drawing human hands using basic shapes. It also demonstrates how the the shape of the hand changes when viewed from different angles. 
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With a focus on improving observation skills, you first sketch Panda’s proportions within a grid, then outline her facial features with neat lines, and finally add shading to the face and head with squirkles and curved hatching lines.
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This comprehensive tutorial covers everything you need to know about drawing a detailed shih tzu with a pencil. It includes information about sketching basic proportions, outlining facial features, and adding shading to the features.
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This heavily illustrated project invites you to use a simple grid to outline a realistically proportioned face of an adorable baby named Brandon (who just happens to be my grandson). Hatching is used to add shading to the face, clothing, and hair.
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This drawing tutorial explains the process of drawing a baby's portrait using a simple grid. The tutorial shows you how to outline basic proportions and facial features within a grid, and shade the eyes, face, hair and clothing.
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August 7, 2014 11:08 PM
Este proyecto ilustrativo te invita a usar una simple manera de dibujar un rostro proporcionado de un adorable bebé.
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This simple tutorial is a great way to teach your child how to draw an owl. It's also a great resource for any cartoon artist.
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Learn how to draw realistic shadows in perspective. Free perspective tutorial shows you how to draw shadows step by step. Click here to watch now!
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If you're having trouble drawing shadows in perspective, this video tutorial will explain everything you need to know. You'll learn how to determine the location of light sources and translate them into shadows using lines.
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In this tutorial, you'll learn about drawing the facial features of manga girl using simplified guidelines. This is a great tutorial for any manga artist.
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"In ten simple steps, you use squirkles to transform a single vertical line on a sheet of paper, into a drawing of a majestic spruce tree. With lots of practice using squirkles and examining spruce trees in nature, you can easily learn to sketch a tree in a couple of minutes (or less). However, you need to work your way slowly through this exercise to give yourself a chance to fully understand the process."
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This tutorial shows you how to use squirkles to draw a detailed spruce tree from scratch. Although the tutorial is fairly basic, advanced artists can use some of the techniques here to improve shading on pencil drawings.
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With colored pencils and a simple fun technique called impressing, you create a gorgeous pattern on the wings of a butterfly cartoon. Butterflies come in many different colors and their wings exhibit various beautiful delicate patterns. Impressing helps you create a delicate pattern on the butterfly’s wings by using a pointed blunt object, such as a stylus, to make an impression in the paper. The surface of the paper is then shaded with colored pencils to enhance the pattern and/or texture.
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This tutorial explains the steps involved in drawing and coloring a butterfly. It introduces you to the art of impressing a pattern on the wings, and shows you how to outline and add color to the butterfly.
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"How many times have you tried to draw a person, and finally given up in frustration saying "I can't get this right"? Be patient with yourself and don't give up! Mastering figure drawing may take several years; however, with practice, your skills gradually improve and your drawings of people begin to look better and better."
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This informative tutorial explains the ways in which you can become better at figure drawings. It helps you perfect your sketches using different sketching techniques, and also shows you how to add perspectives on figures and sketch from live models.
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Drawing perspective shadows can be one of the most challenging things for a beginner artist. Luckily, this tutorial explains the basics of drawing perspective shadows, and includes tips about using guide lines to create shadows in your drawings.
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Rough, gesture, or action sketches are usually rendered very quickly, sometimes in less than a minute. The benefits of making rough sketches are in the process, rather than the creation of a magnificent work of art. Hence, you only goal is to capture a mood, expression or gesture on your drawing paper.
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This tutorial contains very useful tips about sketching different poses and figures. It also explains the basic sketching process, and teaches you how to examine sketches and choose models.
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Sketching is an action word, and you can only learn this skill by actually sketching. To give you a feel for the sketching process, numerous illustrations and simple text take you step-by -step through the process of rendering a sketch from one of my sketches (much easier than working from an actual scene).
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A detailed tutorial explaining the various methods of sketching process. If you want to learn about sketching proportions, mapping values and defining values, this tutorial is a good place to start.
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If you're looking to improve your doodles, this video shows some of the techniques you can use to make them look awesome. Although it's not a step-by-step tutorial, you can still get a firm grasp on the basic techniques.
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A simple tutorial that explains the fundamentals of shading an object with your pencil. You'll find the tips here useful regardless of your drawing skill level.
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"A realistic rendering of a Black Widow spider provides artists with an opportunity to enhance various drawing skills. Text instructions are limited; rather, you rely on fine tuning your visual skills to outline the fine intricacies of the spider, by closely examining large step-by-step illustrations."
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If you're interested in learning about the anatomy of a black widow spider, this simple drawing tutorial is a good place to start. It provides an introduction to the black widow spider, and shows you how to sketch the proportions of spider parts and shade spider forms and textures.
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"This fun project enhances your observation skills by encouraging you to very closely examine your subject. In essence, you draw by looking only at your drawing subject, rather than your subject and your pencil and paper."
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This drawing tutorial for beginners teaches you how to draw subjects without looking at your pencil and paper. It starts off by showing you how to set up your drawing space and ends with you practicing contour drawing with only one line.
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An easy-to-follow tutorial that explains the techniques used to add depth to drawings. It also explains how you can use these techniques to give your landscape drawings extra depth.
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This step-by-step tutorial walks you through the process of drawing realistic eyes from pencil sketches. Whether you're a portrait artist or beginner, you'll find the tips here very useful.
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This video tutorial explains the various techniques you can use to draw landscape and scenery with pen and ink. It covers the basics of drawing water of the sea or ocean, and includes tips about capturing the likeness of waves.
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What do you get when you cross squiggles with circles? You get Squirkles! Squirkling is a method of shading incorperating randomly draw curved lines to create textured values.
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This tutorial provide in-depth information about shading with squirkles. It also shows you how to draw basic squirkle sets and create squirkle value scales.
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This project challenges you to draw two dog noses from slightly different perspectives. You may find the lessons in D Beginner: Squirkling extremely helpful as you try your hand at squirkling graduations of textured shading.
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This drawing tutorial explains the different methods you can use to draw dog noses. The lesson covers the frontal and angular view of a dog nose, with tips about how to add the right amount of shading and texture.
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"A profile of an infant’s tiny face, shaded with hatching lines, provides insights into his or her facial proportions in relation to the head size."
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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.
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This video tutorial explains everything you need to know about drawing and shading realistic eyes with your pencil. You can use these tips to improve your portrait drawings and improve the detail of your compositions.
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Tulips are among the most beautiful flowers and are also quite easy to draw. In this project, you use slightly curved hatching lines of various values and lengths to draw a tulip, as well as a section of its stem and leaf.Detailed step-by-step instructions take you through every aspect of setting up proportions, establishing the shape of the individual parts, and adding shading to create depth.
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This tutorial is a great resource for anyone who wants to practice plant drawing. It explains how to sketch the parts of a tulip and helps you transform a sketch into a contour drawing.
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July 15, 2014 8:12 PM
A tutorial is a story. A tutorial about how to draw a tulip is an emotional, beautiful story which can be told to you, so you can tell it to others. |
This comprehensive step-by-step tutorial explains everything you need to know about drawing an apple with a color pencil. This is a good tutorial to start with if you've just begun experimenting with color pencil drawing.