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Drawing Lessons: How to Draw a Car with Brian Duey
ART, Drawing Lessons, Teaching ArtistsFind out how you can draw an incredibly detailed card in this step by step entry into our drawing lessons series.
Drawing Lessons: How to Draw a Car
Step 1 - Proportions are critical in a technical drawing so I have gridded my outline using…

Drawing Lessons: A Lesson in “Circulism” with Brian Duey
ART, Drawing Lessons, Teaching ArtistsDrawing Lessons: Circulism
"Circulism" is a technique that many artists use in attaining a realistic skin texture in drawing. People's faces are not perfect and should not be rendered so. Circulism is basically drawing very tiny overlapping…

Drawing Lessons: A Lesson in Negative Drawing with Brian Duey
ART, Drawing Lessons, Teaching ArtistsDrawing Lessons: Negative Drawing
When negative drawing, you shouldn't focus on the shape of the object itself, you should focus on the shape of the space around the object. When all the space around the object is shaded, the object will…

Drawing Lessons: A Lesson in Shading with Mike Theuer
ART, Drawing Lessons, Teaching ArtistsLearn how to properly shade your drawings to add depth and dimension in this entry into Mike Theuer's drawing lessons series.
Drawing Lessons: Shading
Before you start to draw remember that light travels in a straight line. Recall how…

Animation: 10 Artists and Animation Studios to Follow
ART, TV, FILM & BOOKSAnimation has always intrigued me. I was often glued to the television set, admittedly when I was supposed to be doing more constructive things, but the allure of well drawn artwork, as well as a good story, always had the power to keep my attention…

Drawing Lessons: Pencil Basics with Teaching Artist Diane Wright
ART, Drawing Lessons, NEW, Teaching ArtistsGreetings Studio 602ers! Over the next few weeks, Pencils.com featured artist Diane Wright will be sharing several drawing lessons that cover the basics of creating art with a pencil . If you aren’t familiar with Diane or her work, check…

Sketchbook Buc’n With Pencil Artist of the Week Katie Sekelsky
ART, Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week's Pencil Artist of the Week is Katie Sekelsky, the artist behind Sketchbook Buc'n. For those unfamiliar, Sketchbook Buc'n is a blog dedicated to chronicling every game of the Pirate's 2012 season with sketches, drawings and doodles.…

A Map to the End of the Known – An Exercise in Personal Cartography
ARTIs Cartography a Dying Art?
You take a left at the first intersection, then a right down Main Street, go four blocks and enter the office on your left.
Drive past the the old hospital, up the hill about 3/4 of a mile, follow the curve and…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Shelby Brannin
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week's featured pencil artist is Shelby Brannin, a third generation cowboy living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His realistic pencil drawings draw inspiration from the natural beauty that surrounds him at the base of the Sandia mountains…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Laura Lee
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is an artist and writer by the name of Laura Lee. She’s worn hats ranging from window display painter to middle school teacher, but it seems she’s found her calling in writing graphic novels.
Laura’s…

