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Tips for Shading With Colored Pencils

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One look at my bedspread would be enough to tell you that I love colors - all of the colors, at the same time. In fact, my whole room is pretty colorful. Throughout college I took notes with different colored gel pens, and at work I post my…
Drawing Lessons Abstracting

Drawing Lessons: Techniques to Help You “See”

In this entry into her drawing lessons series, landscape pencil artist Diane Wright discusses various techniques designed to help you "see" what you're drawing by abstracting it.  Drawing Lessons: Techniques to Help you “See” Every artist…
Drawing Lessons Importance of Sketching

Drawing Lessons: The Importance of Sketching

Drawing Lessons: The Importance of Sketching Sketching is the fundamental building block for an artist.  It is used to develop a personal visual vocabulary.  Sketches are visual exercises in problem solving and provides the opportunity to: hone…
Drawing Lessons Creating Textures

Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures

Learn how to add texture to your drawings in this entry into Diane Wright's drawing lessons series. Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures So what is texture?  We touch an object and can feel that it is smooth or rough, but how do we translate…
Drawing Lessons Values

Drawing Lessons: Using Light and Shadows to Create 3-Dimensional Shapes

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Drawing Lessons: Using Light and Shadows to Create 3-Dimensional Shapes What gives objects form and shape?  Light and the shadows it creates.  Since graphite creates only shades of gray, values are all we have to represent light and shadow.…

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…

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…

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…

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…