Drawing is a wonderful art form in itself, but it is also an excellent exercise for other forms of art, like painting for instance. Learning how to draw will truly open your mind to your surroundings enabling you to really [...]
The pencil drawing is a visual thinking in the soul of an artist. If this idea has the support of the tip of a pencil and are designed for the face of fine paper, this is a work of art. This design picture, we need to make a series of drawings: drawings of eyes, nose, [...]
We are all artists, is not it? This gives us the right and license to be creative with our factories to be. Otherwise, why even bother to create a pencil sketch from a photo in the first place?
But after this law is to leave the responsibility to exercise restraint when it comes to pencil sketches [...]
Any scene can initially be seen as a composition of a series of forms that are all related to four basic geometric solids: the brick, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. In this article we concentrate on the brick, i. e. , we will detail its properties and its place in the overall [...]
In this stage of portrait drawing, we shall discuss how to progress on the face where eyes are already located and nearly drawn. The drawing of nose and mouth would be our next agenda. NOSE: if we look at nose of a person, we can see that it looks like a series of [...]
Learning to write is a part of growing up. We start off by scribbling and doodling and this helps us to get used to holding a pencil. Most young kids are fascinated by just being able to make a mark on a piece of paper. The Montessori way of teaching [...]
DID you know that one of the worlds most famous film celebrities is not even human? Yet he is the star of over a hundred Hollywood movies and countless TV shows. Who is this film star? In Italian hes called Topolino; in Chinese, Mi Lao Shu; in Spanish, El Ratón Miguelito; in English he [...]
Drawing clothing can be quite challenging. The challenge usually centers on the drawing of the folds. There is a lot of reflected light, lots of darks, and many lights. But it is exactly this variety of values that makes the drawing of clothes very attractive but also challenging. Learning to draw [...]
First, let us introduce a few definitions:
This article is not designed to teach the reader how to be an artist in pencil drawing, nor is it step-by step instruction on how to draw on paper or canvass. My humble endeavour here is to declare that the pencil is the first tool an artist should befriend with, were he or she [...]