Tricks & Tips
Free Helpful Tips to Do Montage
Tip on Pencil Portrait Drawing - Montage
A montage is somewhat like a collage. On one piece of paper you put together any number of related subjects. However, instead of pasting them onto the paper you will draw them.
A montage is often used to tell a story about the person you are drawing. It includes references […]
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Free Guidebook to Drawing Multiple Subjects
Tip on Pencil Portrait Drawing - Multiple Subjects
When it comes to multiple subjects in one pencil portraits drawing, there are two possibilities: (1) all subjects appear in one photograph; (2) the subjects appear in different photographs. We will be concerned with the second possibility.
It will not take long before you will get a request […]
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Free Useful Techniques to Drawing Hands
Tip on Pencil Portrait Drawing - The Hands
Drawing hands takes much practice. Hands are typically quite complex with many smooth transitions between darks and lights. Shapes overlap and need to be studied very carefully to yield acceptable realism. There are also lots of edges, crevices, and creases.
Hands are much more angular than our ingrained memorized […]
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Understand How to Improve Blending in Portrait Drawing
Advice on Pencil Portrait Drawing - Blending
Learning to blend is another one of those skills you need to master to become a good pencil portraits artist. Once you have a line drawing and once you have laid down the different values based on, for example, a five-value scale, you can start blending the different value […]
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Your Step by Step Guidelines to Professional Portrait Drawing
As soon as you have finished a line drawing of your subject you are ready to start with the shading process. The purpose of shading is to give your subject three-dimensionality. When you are done with shading, your subject should look like it is anchored in space and is not just an object in a […]
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A Practical Guide in Caring for Canvas Art
Acknowledged as one of the three romantic arts along with Poetry and Music, Painting has been used as a mode of celebrating the beauty of life and expressing the symbolic and highly intellectual purpose and intentions of the artist. Some people would even engage in collecting pieces of decorative painting or paintings of famous […]
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The Amazing Color Shifting!
Modeling the inside of the shapes with value changes began in the late Renaissance and lasted until post-Impressionist painters such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Gauguin began to flatten forms in order to create less realistic but more symbolic and personally expressive works. These painters and the modernists that followed eliminated or subdued […]
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Water Wonders
Its summer and everyone is excited to go out to the beach and in places where there is water under the sun. For artists, it is also a good time to paint waterscapes since there will be colorful summer views that are as bright as the sun.
With its wide range of moods, colors and textures, […]
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Make It Look Different
One time I found myself searching for sketches and photos for new subjects. Then an idea hit me. Instead of looking for something new to paint, why not paint something familiar and do it in a new way? Yeah, that could work. I studied the work of great painters from the past and present and […]
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DRAWING with 2 P’s
A drawing is usually groundwork for a painting, whether it is watercolor or oil. Therefore it is very important to pay attention to your sketch because it will greatly affect the outcome of the final painting.
Some artists can render vibrant and realistic colors but have difficulty in drawing proportions and perspectives. These two are one […]
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