This drawing is of a windmill a few miles from my home. I completed a few days ago using the hatching technique. To create a sense of restfulness I used horizontal hatching for all buildings, trees and sky, but for the windmill I used cross-hatching, which I felt gave it a sense of solidity.
“How to overcome mental blocks holding me back from actually getting in the “stream” of drawing… the fear of not being good enough?”
I am a ballet teacher that wants to be a fine artist.
I have studied drawing, painting and sculpture (a little at a time) over the years and am hoping to make painting and sculpture of dancers my main vocation…
There seems to be a debate about whether or not it’s good to copy when drawing. Some say no, others say yes. Did you know they used to do that in the old school of art where new students were made to copy from drawings and prints of their masters. In fact, they would spend the first year constantly copying from prints, or from the ‘flat’ as they called it, which was taught as being good practice…
My name is Jorge and I’m from Colombia I live in a small beautiful city called Buga. Sadly, there is only one art school here, which teaches abstract art and quite expensive as well. However, I want to learn good drawing techniques.
When I was a child, my father gave the book on drawing; now I’m also looking on Internet for good lessons…
This is Jivaji Deshpande, from New Delhi, India.
Art is my childhood passion. Unfortunately, I could not take up any course in art, much as I wanted to do. Coming as I do from a poor family, doing art course was a taboo, and I entered government service after a formal education up to secondary level, as earning a livelihood was of paramount importance. After retirement from government service about 16 years ago, spending 35 years of my core life in service, I have been struggling hard all by myself without any external guidance to get some foot-hold in art. I am now 75 years of age…
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I am an artist Giedre Sunklodaite, 35 years old, was born in Lithuania. Painting is one of my greatest delights – it always has been, since I was a very young girl. In 2002 in Vilnius I gained Bachelor of Arts degree, I did more that 20 exhibitions. Usually I am painting impressionistic landscapes, flowers, I adore it, but it is so interesting to paint a human…
Hello, I’m Nadir from Algeria. I’m 18 and passionate about art and drawing especially. I like drawing Greek figures since I was four….
