LEARNING & MINDSET
Learning to draw and paint is a journey with plenty of challenges. You are much more likely to succeed if you have a plan for what skills you’ll learn, how you’ll learn them and you have the right learning mindset going into it.
9 Quick Wins to Learn Drawing Faster
There’s no getting around the fact that to get good at drawing, you have to practice your fundamental skills over a few years. But our
How to learn anatomy – 5 DOs and DON’Ts
DO #1: Do understand the role that anatomy is going to play in your figure drawings It’s not just a case of learning where
The 10 Stages of Learning Any Art Skill
Even though learning to draw and paint is one of life’s great joys, you’ll notice that most of the stages described below include some form
Popular but BAD drawing advice – top 3
This article isn’t about advice that’s obviously wrong and really easy to avoid, like to draw a hand just put your hand down and
Learn Everything About Drawing in 10 minutes
It is useful to see the big picture and the various things that we have to learn to be able to draw (and that it
The Secret to Practising Your Art CONSISTENTLY
Consistent practice of the fundamental principles of art will get you the results you are dreaming of. The above statement is true, but that consistency
4 Simple Tweaks to Transform Beginner Drawings
Before throwing my old life drawings away, I took a marker pen and saw if I could fix them quickly. It was a lot easier
6 Skills for Intermediate Level Artists – The Roadmap part 2
If you’ve not seen part 1 where we covered the first 7 skills, you can view it HERE. This is part 2 of the roadmap,
The Figure Drawing Roadmap – all the skills, in order, part 1
We want beautiful artwork and to do that, we want really good skills. The approach I first took to trying to get those skills
How to Improve Massively At Drawing Across 12 Months
If you follow the steps below, you will be surprised by what you can do by the end of 2021. That’s a big promise
12 Ways CONFIDENCE will transform your artwork
What if you were the same artist, same experience and skill level, but just with loads more confidence. Would your work turn out better?
Simplifying References First = Better Practice
We are going to create 4 exercises to train different skills. The first is a straight forward simplification of the pose. The second is posterising
