Artwork by Asma Suleiman
Girl Thinking
I’m a designer and a beginning artist.
The Drawing Academy course provides a great help in learning how to draw figurative artworks.
I want to learn basics of drawing and how to draw from imagination…
DrawingAcademy
Is it bad to rotate the drawing board?
Question from Edward Pan
When shading, I find I sometimes have the tendency to rotate the drawing board back-and-forth so that a certain area becomes more reachable for my hand. Is this a correct approach? …
What is the purpose of gesture drawing
Question from Roxane
At almost every life drawing session, we start with several one-minute, two-minute and five-minute gesture drawings. I find these short sessions very frustrating. Please correct me on this and give me some goal for each short session…
17 Steps of Portrait Drawing
Question from Joey
I have been trying to find an effective way to draw the head, from any angle, in my imagination. One drawing tutor uses a technique in which he adds circles to the side planes of the head and with that, he measures the ears and adds the chin. Can you tell me how the Old Masters addressed this task? …
Artworks and story from Lis Engel
A am a painter
I was always attracted to drawing and painting but did not get the possibility of getting a formal art education. But it did not stop my interest.
My first art experience was my admiration for The Danish drawer Christel and when I was a child I started copying her drawings from journals. At 12 years of age an art dealer, a friend of my family introduced me to Oil painting and I loved The color and started painting landscapes from Bornholm. Here I met The Danish painter Oluf Høst who became a great inspiration for me.
My interest in all kinds of art forms were very open, I was very attracted by music and modern compositional music and contemporary dance and performance art…
Artwork by Alexis Bas
Comic Author, now Artist.
Hello, my name is Alexis and I’m 20 years old from Yucatán. Since I was a kid I’ve always loved to draw. When I was 13, I started to draw short comic strips at school. I actually started to enjoy more and more my drawings, it was a joy to create those little characters with my own hands.
Two years ago I stopped to draw these short comics. I came in contact with art for the sake of art, and I fell in love with it. I actually decided my life to be centered on my art. But I had a little problem, I never actually tried to improve my drawing skills because I was only thinking in telling stories, so my drawing skills were pretty basic at the time.
I’ve learned a lot these past years. but I believe my drawing skills can get a lot better, because there are still many things to learn. And I believe classical fine arts to be the highest form of art…
Artwork by Maria Egilsson
Sacred Dance
In the fall of 2013 I found myself enrolled in a beginners painting class at our local art gallery. I had vague memories of enjoying art as a young child when we still lived in the northern part of England but had never picked up a paintbrush in all of my adult life. I was 56 years old.
During the class I had not expected to feel the sheer delight nor the peace which came as I painted my very first painting. For the length of the class I felt I was transported to another world as this present one faded away…
Artwork by Karen Hamm
New Life New Sight!
Nine years ago I made a decision to make myself a priority. This was a new concept for me and one that I have not once regretted. It was a turning point, with the past behind me and unlimited future ahead I was ready for change!
For me making yourself a priority means listening to that sweet, still place within. Through the silence my enthusiasm began to rise, slowly at first then with more gusto. Drawing became a habit, when the student is ready the teacher appears…
Artwork by Erick Carrazco
Still-life painting
I am a self taught artist, born in Somoto, County of Madriz, Nicaragua Central America.
My father Cesar Octavio and my grandmother Ana Maria taught me the appreciation and passion for fine art and my son Jose Alejandro and Eliezer David are my daily inspiration…
Artwork by Cindy Kopenhafer
Always Challenging Myself!
I feel every artist is at a level in which in order to improve needs to continually challenge themselves. Also at each you level you need to appreciate where you are at and if with each success is the fuel to keep going with your creativity and experimentation. I have been painting for 50 years and am continually learning and thoroughly enjoying the process. I was fortunate to have a mother and grandmother who where both artists and encouraged me. I have in my later years focused and draw and paint mainly trees and the human figure. I feel both subjects have a lot in common – each an individual with character and perseverance…
