Sketch by Adriana
A traveling day in Germany
I draw as long as I can remember. The pages of my diary in High school ware full of sketches…
DrawingAcademy
Do you need good drawing skills to draw with an iPencil?
Question from Ron
Can I take the Drawing Academy course using digital drawing with an iPad and iPencil?
Artwork by Mark Rhodes
Learning better techniques produces better art work
I am 58 years of age and have always envied people who could draw. I have always maintained that I cannot draw, but in 2011 I began to give it a go. Most of my initial drawings were in graphite and looking back at them not too pleasing but were showing signs of improving, it is only in the past year or so that I have experimented with other media such as watercolour, coloured pencils, ink and pastels…
Flower artwork from Joana
Emotion flower
I am Joan Bliudytė from Lithuania. A few years ago I took a local art school course and since use the gained knowledge to create my artworks.
I like drawing and sketching. Despite I was taught how to paint, my preferred medium is graphite pencil…
Metalpoint drawing from Eric Black
Gold- and Silver-point
I started teaching myself metal point drawing in the year 2000. Of course with no classes to take it was all teach myself. I did find that for support I used liquid white gesso with zinc oxide, then thinned it out and used an airbrush to apply the support to my board or paper. The airbrush gives a much smoother surface than any brush I ever found (no sanding). Put on 10-12 coats of the diluted mixture and it works fine…
Story from Heather MacGillivray
I Want To Tell Visual Narrative Stories That Move Someone To Say “I Get That!”
Art, especially visual art, has always ‘been there’ for me … but life got in the way a lot of the time and I neglected art for decades. I was even told by an art teacher, when I was young, that “you don’t need teaching, you just need to be left alone!” because I had an intuitive feel for some aspects of art. For example I seemed to be able to pick up on and convey the mood of the model in life drawing classes and I was not bad at composition … but I knew I had severe weaknesses in other areas of art, but was too immature to do other than to keep on lazily returning to my strengths…
Hyper-realistic portrait by Dawn Safarik
Always Learning!
I was raised in a very small rural town in Alaska with no real access to art classes or training. Most of what I have learned about drawing and art, I have taught myself.
I love to draw beauty, and most of my work consists of portraits. I have drawn a variety of subjects in the past.
While I do take commissions for others, mostly I draw for myself. I challenge myself with each new piece to do better, and I am always desiring to learn new things!
Vasily Perov
Article by Dennis Jarsdel and Vladimir London One of the founding members of Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist painters the great Russian artist Vasily Perov was born in 1834, in the town of Tobolisk…
Portrait drawing by Mike Pierick
Rediscovering Happiness
Good afternoon, or evening, or morning, depending on when you read this. My name is Mike, I’m 58 and I live in Wisconsin, a beautiful state, in my unbiased opinion.
The drawing I submitted is of my wife. If you knew her, you would say, yeah that kind of looks like her, I would like to leave no doubt that when you look at my drawings that you can recognize the face you’re looking at…
Portrait drawing by Filip K., Drawing Academy student
Portrait drawing in a ball pen
This is some 20 pence ball pen… and 9 hours of work
