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You may be disturbed and demoralized because you have just started to learn how to draw and you are discovering it to be tougher than you believed it was. Or you may be attempting a new theme or a new method or a new drawing medium and your labour are not meeting your hopes. You might also sense that your drawing ...

A good composition makes the difference between a mediocre artwork and your interesting, eye-attracting drawing.  So once you study how to draw online, it is imperative to obtain some basic ability  about composition and its guidelines. Principle 1: Balanced Pictures  A good way to guarantee that your composition is balanced  is to consider your drawing as a scale.  If there is ...

When you are starting to learn drawing online  you need to be definite that the topics you opt to draw  are challenging enough to develop your skills but not so hard that you get discouraged.  So one of the queries troubling those who study drawing online is " What areas of interest should I go for in order to train in ...

Recently I was asked a question that seems common among beginning artists who just start to learn drawing: " how and where to begin a drawing??"  Don’t be misguided into believing this is a too simple and silly question.  Although the reply may seem clear,  I've seen a lot of artists that are unsuccessful because they don’t pursue these principles.  When ...

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I love abstracts!  And, as an artist, the question I get asked most often is, "How do you create an abstract?" So here's an article that may give some inspiration to those abstract novices ...

Even expert  artists  sometimes  have a hard time when creating  naturalistic three-dimensional  pictures. Naturally they know the  basic  principles and  create  realistic drawings  instinctively.  But  sometimes  yet the most  experienced  discover  elements in their work that  look  distorted and  not natural. For  novices  it is  yet  harder,  they have to  practice daily to move up a  steep  training curve.  It is  ...

So getting to what I am doing directly, I will go into my personal process and change the person of this writing to the first, namely me. So I will select violet and green. It really doesn’t matter at this point about the subject at hand, here is my first statement about it, my imposition, if you will. Now it’s ...

The “Set” Palette Finally, I am getting to doing another installment on these articles. Sorry to all of you, I am in the process of moving my life together with my fiancé, and this has been occupying most of my time for the last few weeks. A side note: I believe God created us as relational beings, and that is ...

Another conceptual field for artists is that of imaginary, fantasy and magical imagery. Sci-Fi is within this order. This involves the creation of pictorial imagery that does not exist except in the mind. This may well be one of the most creative conceptual areas, but this also falls outside of the scope of this book. Some of this type of ...

  Drawing is best described as an abstraction of reality, where contours are delineated by symbols we know as lines. We have a cultural convention that regards line as a demarcation that encloses form. Pure contour drawing leaves out a lot of information; it is the most minimal and efficient method of representation. Monochromatic, modeled drawing may give us much more ...

What I offer is the application of a standard, i.e., a marker for progress, and a roadmap to greater and more frequent successes. I propose an approach to painting that is just as much a basis for willful deviation as it is a guide. Even one who wishes to “color outside the lines” acknowledges that the lines exist in the ...

 This is the introduction and first chapter of a book I am wrting on the subject of concept as linked to theoretical and technical matters for primarily realist painters. The material here is copyrighted and I request that users will respect that with regard to its being redistributed. You may borrow quotes with credit to the author for private use. Copyright ...

Some amazing Art was displayed here. The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Chelsea will close at the end of this month. That may not mean much to most of the art world’s hipper denizens, but it will to visionary and psychedelic-art fans for whom the chapel has been a mecca since it opened in 2004. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Slide ...

Among the most important things to learn once learning to draw is realizing the formula almost every artist uses to fill a white sheet with more and more lines till she completed the drawing. Although apparently complicated this formula consists of several separate and simple tasks. Most creative persons follow intuitively these separate tasks stepwise in the proper order. Unfortunately while ...

The concept of right brain and left brain thinking developed from the research in the late 1960s of an American psychobiologist Roger W Sperry. He discovered that the human brain has two very different ways of thinking. One (the right brain) is visual and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way, looking first at the whole picture then the details. ...

Certainly water plays a vital role in our normal daily life - we simply can’t live without it. Water keeps us fresh and healthy. Plus, water also gives us a sense of serenity and symbolizes life itself. Recently, I saw some site designs incorporating water elements into the design, which I think is really unique and refreshing. This marks the fourth ...

Japan is a country that has very rich and unique styles of design and culture that balance between usability and aesthetic, modern and traditional. I really like the traditional Japanese styles of designs, patterns, and colors which have been implemented into modern life lifestyles. Web design is no exception. Recently, I came across this great blog with an article about some ...

It’s free resource time! Well this is a button design resources with different styles and colors that I created myself. The button is make out of scalable shapes, so you can adjust or resize- it’s flexible and highly customizable. Feel free to download it if you like it or find it useful. You can download the PSD resource file at the ...