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Drawing Lessons for Advanced Artists: Light Movement in Drawings

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Drawing Lessons: Light Movement in Drawings INTRODUCTION These drawings look quite alive.  But their liveliness is not from detail since the detail between them is very different.  Instead, their liveliness comes from the fact they are…
How to Draw Hair

Drawing Lessons: How to Draw Hair With The Theuer Method

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http://youtu.be/OIdCSRvp-aY Drawing Lessons: How to Draw Hair With The Theuer Method Hair comes in many shapes, sizes, twists, colors and turns. This is true for hair on people and on animals. As a result, drawing hair is difficult. How do…

Drawing Lessons: Use Focus and Detail to Sharpen Your Drawing

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Drawing Lessons: Use Focus and Detail to Sharpen Your Drawing Focus is not how clear your drawing is. Instead, the focus of your drawing is the subject. It is what you want the viewer to see. And often it is what you want the viewer to feel. I…

Drawing Lessons: Drawing Grass and Weeds with Diane Wright

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Grass and weeds are some of the most challenging nature elements to capture in a landscape drawing. It is seldom the focal point of a landscape, but if not rendered correctly, can negatively impact the rest of the scene. Grass is a supporting…

Writing Tips: Time Doesn’t Grow on Trees

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Writing Tips: Time Doesn't Grow on Trees Waking up in my Italian villa, the rays of il sole pry my eyes open. I wander out of bed into a communal kitchen, where the table has been pre-set by la donna della casa. Croissants, rolls, and cappuccino…

Drawing Lessons: The Chisel Point

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The most versatile pencil point is the chisel point. The top sharp edge can be used for finer markings, details and creating fine lines. The flat angled plane can be used for shading. In this entry into our drawing lessons series, we'll be looking…
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Writing Tips: Thrillers to Learn From

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New York Times best-selling author Joe Finder shares writing tips and his list of the best books to learn thriller-writing from. Writing Tips From Joe Finder: Thrillers to Learn From I gave a talk a couple of months ago at Muse and the Marketplace,…

Drawing Lessons: How to Shade Across a Drawing with Mike Theuer

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Drawing Lessons: How to Shade Across a Drawing Shading a face is challenging . . . the hair, the chin, the eyes. Trickier still can be shading a face across the entire page. Let me explain in this entry into our drawing lessons series...       To…

Drawing Lessons: Drawing Rocks with Diane Wright

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 Drawing Lessons: Drawing Rocks Here is the reference photo in color that we will be using for the rest of this drawing lessons entry. A grayscale photo can help to match the tones, but color helps in the details. Diane Wright is a very…

Drawing Lessons: Drawing Skies and Clouds with Diane Wright

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In this entry into our drawing lessons series, Diane Wright details how she recreates skies and clouds using a pencil. Drawing Lessons: Drawing Skies and Clouds STEP 1 - CROSS-HATCHING     I use a loose-hold hand position…