Pencil Drawing Fundamentals – Drawing Cones

Pencil Drawing Fundamentals – Drawing Cones
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 cone, i.e., we will detail its properties and its place in [...]

Pencil Drawing Fundamentals – the Line Drawing Phase

Pencil Drawing Fundamentals – the Line Drawing Phase
In this article we deal with the line drawing phase. We assume that we already have a gridded reference picture of the correct size at our disposal.

Your reference image will often be too large for most printers to print in one piece. To get around this you could [...]

Create a Pencil Sketch From Photo

Create a Pencil Sketch From Photo
We’re all artists, right? That gives us the right and the license to be creative with our works. Otherwise, why even bother to create a pencil sketch out of a photo in the first place?

But having that right means having the responsibility to exercise sound judgement when it comes to [...]