Drawing

Here are all of the articles about drawing.

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  Facial Bone Structure

  This is a great video for any artist to brush up on portrait and figure drawing skills. Anna Greene-Smith, a freelance illustrator in Massachusetts, explains the bone structure of a human face and how to use this knowledge when drawing portraits.
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  Sketching a Gesture Drawing

  Gesture drawing is such a valuable skill to master, as it can create inspiration for more in-depth drawings and paintings. David Clemen is experienced in a variety of art forms, such as illustration, painting, fashion illustration and graphic design. In this video, he demonstrates using a wooden model to learn the basics of figure drawing and gesture drawing.
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  Books on Basic Drawing for Beginners

  Although you may want to learn how to draw, classes at a university can cost too much too make it worth your trouble. Rather than toiling away in a classroom full of artists, learning from basic drawing books can be just as good.
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  What Are the Basics of Drawing?

  Besides being one the first skills attempted by preschoolers, drawing is also an enjoyable hobby that can continue throughout a lifetime. Wherever you go, you can record what you see not only in words but by sketching the sights.
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  Drawing Guides for Faces

  Learning to draw the human face is a challenging endeavor that requires an awareness of proportion, shape, and negative space. However, the most important skill needed to master the human portrait is patience and a desire to try, study, and repeat.
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  Drawing Faces for Beginners

  Drawing faces intimidates many beginning artists. Eyes and mouths create the personality. Draw these correctly, and your portrait closely resembles your model. However, the eyes and mouth, along with other features, require correct placement on a properly proportioned face before a true likeness appears.
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  Pencil Drawing Ideas

  Pencil, often used to practice skills, also offers a versatile media for creating quality artwork. Pencil lends itself to a surprising variety of effects and subjects from the thin detailed line and texture markings of a plant to large dark strokes of tone needed when drawing a still life.
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  Creative Drawing Ideas

  Simply drawing need not be boring. Many ideas exist and with practice, many more will come to you. Drawing techniques provide a variety of effects from texture to color-blending to design. Drawing tools include pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, permanent ink and oil or chalk pastels.
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  100 Creative Drawing Ideas

  Even for those who love sketching, there are times when the lack of fresh drawing ideas inhibits the creative process: you can only draw that tree outside your kitchen window so many times. Coming up with new ideas is not that difficult, if you start thinking in categories---and put a twist on each item in your category.
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  How to Make Line Art Drawings

  Make line art drawings as a piece of artwork, as practice pieces or as the foundation of a more detailed piece of artwork. Create contour, or outline, line art drawings and capture the many different forms and lines of your subject matter.