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 in one of these stages? That’s what we’re covering in today’s video. It is also written out as an article below the video. I’m still going through the learning […]
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 still learning? We asked subscribers to our newsletter to volunteer and test the method out, and the results were varied and fascinating. (You can watch the video or read the […]
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. A lot of people feel that way whether they’re 20 years old or 80 years old, including me. And secondly, I made this video/ article for you. We’re going to […]
Here’s the other highlight video focusing on drawing technique, in case you missed it. Frank’s Instagram. Frank Gambino is a great artist and life drawing teacher. This video has Frank’s insights about charcoal, finding your way as an artist, failed drawings, anatomy and a bit on drawing hair. Frank is great at explaining things in […]
Since you’re here, you’re probably learning to draw with some help from online tutorials, from websites like Love Life Drawing. I’ve started to teach myself through online learning too – we are all about figure drawing here, but I also want to be able to paint landscapes . And I’ve realised that I need some […]
In this video / article, we review 5 anatomy books and also discuss how we use anatomy books for figure drawing. Below is a summary of the 5 reviews and our discussion on using anatomy books. The video shows more of the books and us drawing from them. Anatomy for the Artist by Jeno Barcsay […]
Have you ever worried that you might not have talent, so you should quit now and not waste time? Or maybe you started doing a drawing and worried that it might not turn out great? Or even started drawing a line, and worried that it was the wrong line? We’re going to address those, and […]
So you’re struggling to put in the hours each week training your drawing – this is a very common problem I have been having too. This is an approach that has worked for me to find extra dollops of practice time everyday. Check out the video, or we’ve written it out below. Don’t forget to […]
In judo, there’s a saying – ‘take a training session off, you’ll feel it at the next session. Take a week off, your opponent will feel it. Take a month off, everyone in the dojo will see it’. And it was true, if you took a month off, you’d end up huffing and puffing and […]
Most life drawing sessions include quick drawings between 1 and 5 minutes, and most teachers highly recommend regularly drawing quick poses. If you’re drawing from photo references, the website quickposes.com allows a maximum of 2 minutes per pose. So why is it useful and important? Mayko and I talked it through and here’s what we came up […]