Learning to Draw

How to Draw A Realistic Manga/Anime Face

The manga “style” is actually a name for a collection of different styles that range from being quite cartoony and simple, to being realistic and intricate. This video tutorial will show you how to draw a face in one of the more complex styles. Related posts:How to draw Realistic Eyes How to Draw a Realistic Mouth How to [...] Related posts:

How to Draw a Realistic Mouth

In this advanced tutorial, the author shows you one of the different methods you could use to draw and shade a realistic mouth with, naturally, realistic teeth also. The tutorial tells you exactly what tools are right for this particular job, when to use them, and how to use them to create a very realistic, [...] Related posts:

Drawing with Shapes

As complicated as some drawings might seem, in the end they are mostly based on various combinations of simple shapes. Triangles, rectangles and circles. That’s all it really is. You might find it hard to draw if you start off trying to draw something complicated. However, you might find drawing a lot easier if you [...] Related posts:

Helpful Drawing Tips and Hints

This article is nothing more but a list of useful tips and hints put together by an artist to help. Nothing more than that, nor does it have to be? What could be better for an artist-in-training than to have a list of tips from an established artist? Enjoy! Click here to go to Helpful Drawing [...] Related posts:

Causes and Prevention of the Deterioration of Paper

As an artist drawing on paper, the longevity of the paper you draw on is of utmost importance. You will want your paper to last at least as long as you do, if not longer. Unfortunately paper is not a very strong substance, and tends to deteriorate over time. This article will tell you why [...] Related posts:

How to Draw a Wolf

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how you can draw a beautifully shaded wolf. Starting with mapping out the general shape of the wolf’s face and head, and slowly but surely building the tonal detail to create a fully complete drawing of a wolf’s face. This tutorial will also make you understand the importance of [...] Related posts:

Basic Drawing Terms and Skills

If you’re just starting out with learning how to draw, then the drawing jargon and terms used in the tutorials you find online might scare you off. Do not worry, because this tutorial will lay all those tutorials out for you, and explain exactly what is meant by words such as “contour”, “tone”, and negative [...] Related posts:

Creating Photo-Realistic Drawings with Pencil and Graphite

Don’t be mistaken, creating drawings that look like photographs, while most definitely not something for beginners, is absolutely possible. In this tutorial, you will be given some simple tips on how to make your drawings look like the real thing. These are advanced tips, so those of you without much experience might not see much [...] Related posts:

Proportions in Figure Drawing

When drawing the human figure, proportions are of utmost importance to get the shape of your figure right. This might seem intimidating, but getting the proportions right does not at all have to be difficult. This tutorial will show you how, hrough a few simple techniques, which do not have to involve any expensive tools, [...] Related posts:

Switching On the Artistic Part of Your Brain

If you’re just starting out with drawing and you’re having trouble, this could be happening because your brain might be trying to tell you what to draw. This can be a problem, because you’re not supposed to be drawing objects, but the individual lines, shades and colors that make up the object you are drawing. [...] Related posts: