Saori’s Sketchbook Drawings

Saori is a student enrolled in my Tuesday drawing class at the School of Visual Arts. She has immense talent. That talent is expanding on a weekly basis. Saori was gracious enough to share her sketchbook with the world. I hope you enjoy looking at her drawings as much as I do. Look for more [...]

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Podcast 20 Teaching Composition Through Digital Drawing

In this podcast 20 we share with you what we have been up to here at Drawing Tutorials Online. We have been teaching our members some new composition techniques through digital drawing. We are looking for your feedback so let us know what you think. Don’t forget to take part in the survey. Also as [...]

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Most Overlooked Aspect In Portrait Drawing

This drawing tip of the week is all about what artists overlook the most when drawing a portrait. Paying attention to this item will help you to get a likeness when portrait drawing. A couple of weeks a go I added step 25 titled Symmetrical Versus Non – Symmetrical. At the end of the step [...]

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Draw Better Compositions Using Simple Shapes

This drawing tip of the week is all about how to draw using “Compositional Shapes”. A compositional shape is a big value shape. It provides your drawing with a clear sense of light and shade. A compositional shape also provides you with a space to organize objects within your drawing. We are moving right along [...]

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Do You Draw Eyes Too Big?

Our member only critique gallery is going like gang busters over at Drawing Tutorials Online. I wanted to share this particular video critique with you all. There are many artists who develop bad habits for what ever reasons. We all have bad habits when it comes to drawing. Some of us draw too slow. Some [...]

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Member Portrait Drawing Video Critique

Our member only critique gallery has been buzzing as of late over at Drawing Tutorials Online. I wanted to share this particular video critique with you all. There are so many things to keep in mind when drawing a portrait. Value matching is one of the most important. Matching values will help you to get [...]

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New Landscape Drawing Series

Okay you spoke and I listened. Remember the “Love and Hate” survey from Drawing Tutorials Online. Well I did. Overwhelmingly members wanted to see tutorials that focused on landscape drawing. The three most requested topics for drawing tutorials were as follows. 1. Landscape drawing tutorials. 2. More perspective lessons. 3. How to draw water tutorials. [...]

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Adjusting Your Portrait Drawing – Video Critique

We are at week 51 of consistently adding weekly video critiques over at Drawing Tutorials Online. I wanted to share this particular video critique with you all. Portrait drawing can be quite daunting. However if you try to simplify things by looking for simple shadow shapes the process does get easier. Sometimes we get to [...]

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Podcast 19 – How To Draw Glass Sample Clip

I just finished uploading a fourteen chapter video tutorial titled “How To Glass” over at Drawing Tutorials Online I wanted to share some tips with you about how to draw glass before the long Memorial Day weekend. In this Podcast 19 we talk about how to start drawing a glass. You want to look for [...]

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Lindsey’s Sketchbook Uniqueness

Last week I sent out an email blast letting my Friday drawing class know where we were going on our last class field trip. Shortly after the email Lindsey contacted me. She basically said she wanted to go out with a sketchbook video bang. A sketchbook video blast I would say. Lindsey is a super [...]

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