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.
You’ve been avoiding something. What is it
Tips on how to tackle that one difficult drawing skill that you know you’ve been avoiding!

The Truth About Art Motivation
The 3 ingredients you need to get through the struggle of art block

Train Your Brain: Powerful Gesture Drawing Exercise
We’ve teamed up with Simon Luty to share some powerful exercises to help improve your figure drawings

You are your own art teacher. Are you a good one?
I’ve had that deep desire to create artwork my whole life. But it’s been so difficult, especially drawing people. This whole channel is designed to

An Epic Story of Art Progression
You arrive in Artlandia with nothing, no abilities just passion. You pitch a tent to live in Line City, on Messy Lines Lane.

I helped a beginner draw much better with these 4 tips (Life Drawing Stage 1 to 2)
In our article, the 5 stages of learning to draw people, we talked about how everyone starts at the symbols stage, where your drawings get

Top 5 figure drawing progression tips with Simon Luty
There is a video version of this article which you can see on YouTube here. How did Simon Luty learn to combine gesture, structure, volume,

Gestures & Quick Drawings – Strategy & Thought Processes
What on earth should you focus on when you have seconds or just a few minutes to draw a figure? What should your mind be

The Drawing Habit
If there’s one word that is the centrepiece to learning to draw, it’s ‘habits’. This video is all about building a drawing habit. If you’d

The 5 stages of learning to draw people – Roadmap from beginner to expert
Are you in the symbols stage, the drawing what you see stage, the simplification stage, the expressive stage or the creative stage? Are you stuck

6 Beginners TEST OUR TUTORIAL – Huge Improvements Drawing Hair
It looks easy and turns out beautiful in the tutorial by the expert, but what is it like to actually do this method when you’re

Is it TOO LATE to learn to draw & be a good artist?
If you’re aspiring to be a good artist, but feel like you’re ‘behind’ or regret not having started sooner – well firstly you’re not alone.