I am a 46 year old artist from Brazil, who discovered art relatively late in my life, yet I still have the opportunity to study art academically.
I am very fortunate to be a student of the Drawing Academy. Here, I developed my skills and knowledge about art…
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My name is Victoria S. and I’m 20 years old. I’ve grown up with a passion for drawing and the visual arts. Each and every day that passion blooms and grows more and more.
Art takes on a huge role in my life. I practice every day for as long as I can. It is my primary way of self-expression and being creative…
I have been drawing every day for more than 6 months, and it fills me with so much happiness that it can drive me out of bed at 5 a.m.
Before I joined the Drawing Academy, I was mainly drawing from drawing books and from YouTube tutorials. Practicing with the Drawing Academy on a daily basis has given me thorough basic skills and knowledge, and I look forward to starting all over again with some of the drawing lessons and compare new drawings with my first attempts in order to evaluate my skills. I will certainly also consider other lessons from the Drawing Academy and would highly appreciate a course on the use of pastels…
Hello, I wrote and drew a graphic novel called Rough Waters, and want to improve my drawing skills before going on to another book.
I like nature, and want to depict the wilderness in interesting ways to draw people into stories and to appreciate the animals and plants we have left in remote areas.
While teaching, I lived on the west coast of Canada and other parts of BC. Many places are so beautiful I want to pass that on to others.
The Drawing Academy looks like an excellent way to learn drawing skills when a person is far from a college, and does not have resources to move somewhere else…
My name is Kathleen James and when I’m not taking care of all the beautiful people in my life as a wife, mom and nana, I love to draw and paint.
When I was a child, I lived to draw. I was a night owl and though I had to have my light off at bedtime, I would open my curtains and draw by the moonlight just about every night. It was when I was my most creative. That love of drawing carried on until I took an art class as a teen and felt my teacher disliked every thing I created. Unbeknownst to me, she advised my mom to send me to art school…
We had a romantic, memorable experience together staying in these beautiful surroundings. I included us both in the painting…
“Before enrolling in the Drawing Academy, I took the Web Art Academy course.
Then I decided to take the drawing course to improve my drawing skills, knowledge in human anatomy, learn proficient tonal rendering techniques, etc.
The quality of the Drawing Academy lessons exceeded my expectations. Numerous videos and books on how to draw portraits and figures, drawing in perspective, silver-point drawing techniques and so on were very helpful…
Along with original work, I like to do copies of the work of artists that I admire. I don’t necessarily do this to make perfect copies but to learn a bit about how they do what they do so that I can apply their techniques to original compositions…
We would like to congratulate our guest writer, Dennis Jarsdel, who has been awarded with the first month of the Drawing Academy course for publishing the following five articles about art: …
Manuscript illuminations, also know as miniatures, are a form of art, the decoration of books and texts and especially margins and initials.
Although the popularity of this ancient art form has deceased, the earliest surviving examples date back to 400 AD. The popularity of this art form flourished in the 12th century.
The word illumination comes from the usage of gold and silver leaf in these decorations and the Latin word illuminare, meaning ‘light up’…
