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What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?
Drawing can help you reach your goals!
Art is good for so many things: improving memory and focus, easing anxiety, honing fine motor skills, enhancing empathy, and so much more. As a result, a daily drawing practice can be an important addition to a variety of New Year’s resolutions--even if you’re not hoping to become the next da Vinci.
Want to be more mindful? Improve your mental health? Strengthen your relationships? The simple act of drawing could help you reach all any these goals.
Today, we’re sharing three lessons from our Self-Discovery Through Art topic by art educator Judith Campanaro.
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Stress Busters to Help You Relax
5.3.R9: Beginner to Intermediate
Easy-to-use stress busters to help put you back in control and maybe inspire you to create some stress busters of your own View / Download
Explore and Absorb Conscious Awareness
5.3.A14: Beginner to Intermediate
Journey toward self-discovery by creating a fun collage with a consciousness flower as its focal point View / Download
Exercises to Build Confidence
5.3.A6: Beginner to Intermediate
Gift yourself with enlightening activities to help enhance your personal growth, physical well-being, and self-esteem View / Download
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Light Up Your Art!
Ask any photographer, and they’ll tell you that learning how to manipulate light is critical to successfully capturing an image. You may not realize, however, that creating a realistic drawing of a subject also requires a strong understanding of light. The big difference? Instead of manipulating light, you need to know how to faithfully reproduce its effect on your subject.
This week, we’re sharing a variety of lessons designed to help you understand how to use light in your drawings for more realistic results.
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Highlight Dark Hair with Graphite Resist
1.2.A12: Beginner to Intermediate
Indent curved lines with a graphite pencil to help create the shiny texture of a strand of realistic hair View / Download
Identifying Light and Shadow on Forms
3.1.R1: Beginner
Examine four basic components of light and shadow that help create the illusion of three-dimensional forms on a flat sheet of drawing paper View / Download
Seeing and Understanding Light
Seeing and Understanding Light
Using light to capture the illusion of three-dimensionality on a flat sheet of paper View / Download
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Light Up Your Art!
Ask any photographer, and they’ll tell you that learning how to manipulate light is critical to successfully capturing an image. You may not realize, however, that creating a realistic drawing of a subject also requires a strong understanding of light. The big difference? Instead of manipulating light, you need to know how to faithfully reproduce its effect on your subject.
This week, we’re sharing a variety of lessons designed to help you understand how to use light in your drawings for more realistic results.
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Highlight Dark Hair with Graphite Resist
1.2.A12: Beginner to Intermediate
Indent curved lines with a graphite pencil to help create the shiny texture of a strand of realistic hair View / Download
Identifying Light and Shadow on Forms
3.1.R1: Beginner
Examine four basic components of light and shadow that help create the illusion of three-dimensional forms on a flat sheet of drawing paper View / Download
Seeing and Understanding Light
Seeing and Understanding Light
Using light to capture the illusion of three-dimensionality on a flat sheet of paper View / Download
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Give Your Brain a Boost!
Drawing Improves Memory
There’s plenty of evidence that indicates drawing is a powerful brain booster. Drawing not only improves memory and mental health, it also helps people recover from traumatic brain injuries, increases attention spans, and nurtures observational skills.
But the benefits go both ways! By doing exercises to sharpen your cognitive skills, you can become a better, more accurate, and more insightful artist. This week, we’re highlighting lessons that will teach you to think - and see - from a whole new perspective.
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Draw Linus Upside Down
2.2.A18: Beginner to Advanced
Use a line of symmetry to render a proportionately correct sketch of a cartoon View / Download
Draw Still Life from Memory
2.2.A18: Beginner to Advanced
Sketch a familiar object without looking at it, then use a memory enhancement technique to recall its details, and redraw it from memory View / Download
Triumphant Old Tree
2.2.A25: Intermediate to Advanced
Render an old weathered tree by identifying and outlining overlapping shapes and adding shading according to a light source View / Download
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Drawing Improves Memory
Give Your Brain a Boost!
There’s plenty of evidence that indicates drawing is a powerful brain booster. Drawing not only improves memory and mental health, it also helps people recover from traumatic brain injuries, increases attention spans, and nurtures observational skills.
But the benefits go both ways! By doing exercises to sharpen your cognitive skills, you can become a better, more accurate, and more insightful artist. This week, we’re highlighting lessons that will teach you to think - and see - from a whole new perspective.
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Draw Linus Upside Down
2.2.A18: Beginner to Advanced
Use a line of symmetry to render a proportionately correct sketch of a cartoon View / Download
Draw Still Life from Memory
2.2.A18: Beginner to Advanced
Sketch a familiar object without looking at it, then use a memory enhancement technique to recall its details, and redraw it from memory View / Download
Triumphant Old Tree
2.2.A25: Intermediate to Advanced
Render an old weathered tree by identifying and outlining overlapping shapes and adding shading according to a light source View / Download
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Light Up Your Art!
Ask any photographer, and they'll tell you that learning how to manipulate light is critical to successfully capturing an image. You may not realize, however, that creating a realistic drawing of a subject also requires a strong understanding of light. The big difference? Instead of manipulating light, you need to know how to faithfully reproduce its effect on your subject.
This week, we're sharing a variety of lessons designed to help you understand how to use light in your drawings for more realistic results.
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Highlight Dark Hair with Graphite Resist
1.2.A12: Beginner to Intermediate
Indent curved lines with a graphite pencil to help create the shiny texture of a strand of realistic hair View / Download
Identifying Light and Shadow on Forms
3.1.R1: Beginner
Examine four basic components of light and shadow that help create the illusion of three-dimensional forms on a flat sheet of drawing paper View / Download
Seeing and Understanding Light
Seeing and Understanding Light
Using light to capture the illusion of three-dimensionality on a flat sheet of paper View / Download
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Putting the Pieces Together!
Think about the last time you assembled a jigsaw puzzle. You probably have a few established techniques--maybe you put together the edges first, or separate the pieces into colors. But no matter what approach you took, it certainly involved taking an intensely close look at all the small details, and how they fit in with the larger image.
Drawing a portrait can be a lot like putting together a puzzle. You have to focus on the smallest details of your subject's face, while also tying those details into the larger whole. But with portraiture, those small details also offer clues to your subject's age, experience, personality, and emotions.
Today, we're sharing three lessons from our Create Portraits of People and Pets topic by Brenda Hoddinott, author of Drawing for Dummies.
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Isaac the Jack Russell
6.3.A2: Intermediate to Advanced
Create a contour drawing of Isaac, then use hatching to add shading to his fur and squirkling to add shading to his nose. View / Download
Functions of Human Facial Muscles
6.3.R1: Beginner to Intermediate
The relevance of basic muscles for accurately rendering the forms needed to depict various facial expressions. View / Download
Lord Algernon de Percie
6.3.R5: Advanced
An illustrated drawing journal to help you create a fun caricature by using a complex grid rendered on a photo reference. View / Download
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Fabricate Your Art!
We've shared lessons on shading and texture before, but it takes some very specific techniques to render fabric in a realistic way. Every type of fabric has its own textures and colors built right in, but add folds and shadows, and you've got another level of complexity to tackle.
Drawing fabric can be a lot of fun, too, because it offers endless opportunities for composition. Drape it over an object, use it as a backdrop, dress your subject in it, or just ball it up and toss it in a corner - the choice is yours!
This week, we're showcasing three fabric-focused lessons from our Shading Textures and Patterns topic, by Brenda Hoddinott, author of Drawing for Dummies.
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Shade Matte and Shiny Fabric
3.2.A4: Intermediate
Try this free lesson and capture the basic textures of such fabrics as cotton, linen, silk, polyester, vinyl, plastic, and leather using cross-hatching. View / Download
Shade Fabric with a Spotted Pattern
3.2.A10: Intermediate
Use a shading map and cross-hatching graduations to shade the smooth weave and spotted pattern of fabric. View / Download
Shade the Hem of Ribbed Fabric
3.2.A12: Intermediate
Draw a section of hemmed clothing that characterizes the textures of such fabrics as denim, corduroy, and knits. View / Download
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Bring Your Drawings to Life!
For many beginner-level artists, developing the ability to draw from memory or imagination is an important goal. However, most people don't realize that creative drawing is extremely difficult without a strong technical foundation. Fortunately, online education makes it easier than ever to develop those important technical skills - and our new self-directed drawing course, Drawing from Line to Life, is one of the most comprehensive self-directed drawing courses available.
Created by Mike Sibley, one of the world's foremost graphite artists, this eight-week course uses a combination of theory and hands-on activities to help beginning artists develop basic, foundational drawing skills. Covering everything from planning and composition to shading and texture, Drawing from Line to Life will teach you everything you need to get started, whether you want to draw what you see, or create new worlds from scratch.
About Mike Sibley
Mike Sibley is an internationally renowned English artist with 40 years of experience as a professional artist and graphite pencil specialist. His well-known prints of dog studies can be found as far afield as Australia to South Africa, and Europe to the USA. Mike organizes and teaches drawing workshops throughout the UK, USA, and Canada and also teaches online courses with drawspace.com.
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Step Up Your Shading Skills!
Many people don't realize that almost every drawing-whether the subject is human, animal, or object-benefits from shading. Subjects very rarely exist without shadows, curves, and light sources, and shading is the only way to properly render those details.
As a result, using shading techniques like hatching and squirkling is a great way to add complexity and depth to each and every drawing. This week, hone your shading skills with these lessons.
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Shade a Simple Form with Contour Hatching
3.1.A22: Beginner
Use contour hatching graduations to depict the illusion of depth by transforming a circular shape into a three-dimensional form View / Download
Shade the Realistic Forms of Leaves
3.1.A32: Beginner to Intermediate
Follow richly-illustrated, step-by-step instructions to draw a plant in the style of realism View / Download
Crosshatch a Grape Smoothie
3.1.A40: Beginner to Intermediate
Sketch proportions, outline contours, shade with contour cross-hatching, and blend values to create a shiny, realistic grape View / Download
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Let's Get Visual(ly Intelligent)!
Almost 50 years after the Rubik's Cube was invented, it's still one of the most recognizable toys ever invented. How did a simple 3D puzzle earn a spot on Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Greatest Toys list? There are a few obvious reasons: It's simple, inexpensive, fun, and challenging. But there are more subtle benefits to playing with the little cube. It:
Improves hand-eye coordination
Increased focus
Sharpens memory skills
Enhances problem-solving skills
Interestingly enough, making art offers many of the same benefits. This week, we're highlighting some of the lessons that promote the same benefits - all contained in our Drawing on Your Brain topic.
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Draw a Symmetrical Design
2.2.A2: Beginner
Try this free lesson and outline symmetrical curved and straight lines on each side of a line of symmetry. View / Download
Draw Two Faces and a Vase
2.2.A4: Beginner
Follow along with step-by-step illustrated instructions to create an optical illusion. View / Download
Plot, Dot, and Draw a Manikin
2.2.A13: Beginner to Advanced
Use plot-and-dot points of reference marked on a photo to render a proportionally accurate contour drawing of a manikin. View / Download
Draw Still Life from Memory
2.2.A18: Beginner to Advanced
Sketch a familiar object without looking at it, then use a memory-enhancement technique to recall its details, and re-draw it from memory. View / Download
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Eye Spy!
The phrase "The eye is the window to the soul" is tough to attribute. No one really knows who said it first, but variations have been credited to Shakespeare, Milton, Cicero, and the Bible. But like most persistent phrases, it holds an element of truth.
We can gather a lot of information by looking into someone's eyes; they hint at who a person is, how they're feeling, and sometimes even what they're thinking about.
Eyes are complex. That's why they can be so hard to draw - and why it's important to get them right. Today, we're highlighting five lessons that will help you master the art of drawing expressive and realistic eyes.
Outline and Shade a Realistic Eye
6.1.A17: Beginner to Intermediate
Outline various parts of an eye, draw natural-looking eyelashes, and then add shading to create a lifelike eye. View / Download
Sketch and Shade an Eye on Melissa
6.1.A18: Beginner to Intermediate
Draw an eye with a focus on accurately rendering the anatomical forms surrounding the orbital cavity. View / Download
Shade a Realistic Dog Eye
6.2.A15: Intermediate
Sketch proportions, outline shapes, and use various shading techniques to create a realistic animal eye. View / Download
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Pencil Perfection!
If you want to develop a strong understanding of the graphite medium, Mike Sibley's Drawing from Line to Life topics are a great place to start. In Drawing from Line to Life: Beginner and Drawing from Line to Life: Intermediate, Sibley shares what he's learned over the course of 30+ years as a professional graphite artist. Try a lesson today, and discover why Mike Sibley is one of our most popular instructors.
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Take Your Pencils for a Test Drive
1.2.A1: Beginner to Intermediate
Four exercises designed to demonstrate the tones created by different grades of pencils and to document your current drawing skills View / Download
Lighten Values by Removing Graphite
1.2.A7: Beginner to Intermediate
Use creative erasing techniques to safely return a dark tone to white, and to add white lines to mid-grey tones View / Download
Draw Fur on a Sheepdog's Muzzle
3.3.A6: Intermediate to Advanced
Use negative drawing techniques to outline and shade the muzzle section of an Old English Sheepdog View / Download
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Fun with Erasers!
Kneaded or hi-polymer, the humble eraser can be an artist's best friend. For obvious reasons, of course; without an eraser, how would we clean up those stray lines or fix those bigger compositional errors?
As handy as they are, erasers are easily underestimated. They aren't just for fixing mistakes - erasers can also be used to create art, whether you choose to use them to add highlights to some shading, or to produce an entirely new image. This week, we're giving erasers the attention they deserve.
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Play with Kneaded and Vinyl Erasers
1.1.A4: Beginner
Experiment with charcoal as a shading medium and two different types of erasers as drawing tools View / Download
Pull a Sphere from the Dark
1.1.A18: Beginner to Intermediate
Shade your paper with charcoal; then pull out light values with erasers and shade darker values with charcoal until a three-dimensional sphere appears View / Download
Create Drawings with Erasers
1.2.A8: Beginner to Intermediate
Use erasers to practice drawing lines, shapes, and forms, and then use the same techniques to create an original artwork View / Download
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Shift Your Focus!
Learning to draw means learning to look at the world in a whole new way. When you see life through an artist's eyes, you start to assess the natural composition of street scenes, notice the negative space between objects, and pay attention to patterns, perspective, and pops of colour.
Eventually, inspiration will become part of your day-to-day life. This week, we're sharing lessons that will help you develop an artists' instinct for seeing subjects in a whole new way.
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Draw the Negative Space of Chairs
2.2.A11: Beginner
Create two negative space drawings of chairs: one from a photo reference and the other from life. View / Download
