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Top 5 Gesture Mistakes
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Top 5 Proportion Mistakes in Figure Drawing
When your torso bends to one side, your ribcage will come down really close to your pelvis. For some reason […]
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Simplifying References First = Better Practice
We are going to create 4 exercises to train different skills. The first is a straight forward simplification of […]
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5 details to always leave out & 5 to include instead
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The most important colour to make your art BEAUTIFUL
The lord of the colors. One color to rule them all and in the darkness, bind them. Have you ever […]
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LEARNING & MINDSET
In this series, we learn about the mindset needed to succeed learning life drawing and cover various topics about the learning process itself.
GESTURE SERIES
A short series of tutorials designed to help you achieve loose and expressive gestural drawings, including technique, mindset and exercises.
BEGINNER COURSE
A 10 lesson series designed to help beginners get to grips with the most important life drawing skills, keeping it all simple and doable
ARTIST EYE TRAINING
Learn ways to see the world with an artist's eye. We look at principles of perspective and light during daily life
AREAS OF THE FIGURE
In this series, we go in-depth on how to draw specific parts of the body. You'll learn how to draw shoulders, necks and so on.
MATERIALS
In these tutorials, we look at how to choose the best drawing material for you
DRAWING HAIR
In this series, we learn to draw hair which will transform your portraits. It's a simple step by step process
ARTIST ANALYSIS
Here we analyse great artwork from our favourite artists to understand why the drawings and paintings work so well
FIGUARY CHALLENGE 2019
Figuary is a month of figure drawing lessons and practice sessions. Take the challenge and transform your life drawings!
FORESHORTENING
Foreshortening is tricky at first, this 3-part series will help make it simpler for you. We cover the techniques, exercises and principles.
DRAWING FACES
This short series of tutorials is about drawing faces
DRAW ALONG PRACTICE
In these we show reference photos and draw them, and narrate the process and you can draw along with us.
PODCASTS
We used to do podcasts and you can still hear them here. We talk about all sorts of life drawing topics.
HATCHING TECHNIQUE
These posts are about hatching technique, crosshatching, contour hatching, parallel hatching and other forms of hatched shading.
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