Drawing Lessons

Getting Started

Introduction to Drawing in Pencil

Choosing Drawing Paper 

All About Drawing Pencils 

What to Know About Erasers

What is a Tortillon? 

Start Drawing!

Preparing Your Drawing Surface

Keeping Your Drawing Paper Clean 

Drawing with Shapes and Lines

Measuring for Proportion

Drawing Animals

Drawing a Still Life

Drawing People in Action (Part 1)

Drawing People in Action (Part 2)

10 Tips for Drawing a Face 

Drawing Techniques 

Drawing Using a Grid

Contour Drawing

Drawing Symmetrical Objects

Using a Tortillon or Stump

Gesture Drawing

Drawing Upside Down

Drawing from Photographs

How to Transfer an Image

Transferring with Graphite Paper (Video)

Using a Value Scale

Using a Wooden Manikin

Eighteen Tips for Drawing 

Thumbnail Drawings

 How to Draw Hair (Video)

 

Drawing Projects 

How to Start a Nature Journal

Self-Portrait Project 

Contour Hand Drawing Project

 

Drawing in Steps

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Bear

Chickadee 

The Crow and the Pitcher

 Dog

Eagle

Gecko 

Hedgehog

Horse

Foal

Palm Tree

Penguin 

Rose Bud  (Video)

Swan 

 T-Rex 

Wolf

 

Drawing Videos