As a Drawing Academy student, you can exhibit your artworks in this online gallery.
We want to see your drawings before, during and after the Drawing Academy Course.
Hello, my name is Octavian and this is my first time submitting a finished artwork on this site, after having watched a few of Drawing Academy video lessons from the first month…
Here is a composition where I put together an infant brother and sister from the mother’s favorite photos of her children. In this case I could not draw from life because the two children are now teenagers. I did, however, have to imagine the composition as a single scene where the photos were taken from two different backgrounds. I’m not sure how I did fitting the two into a common background, the infants seem to be reacting in slightly different ways to the same stimulus.
Anyway, it was fun to try this…
I have been drawing some to practice! I have good results but need to capture a true likeness of subjects! I am enjoying the lessons very much! I am going to attempt silver point and have ordered a silver stylus and a bottle of ground!
Also I am staring at a 24 x 48 canvas that I plan on composing a painting by actually drawing the contents so it will be an original of mine and not something someone else has done!
Art is my compassion that keeps my mind busy! I highly recommend the three courses offered as I have enrolled in all three!
https://drawingacademy.com – How to Draw whatever you see or imagine
https://webartacademy.com – Oil Painting video course
https://anatomymasterclass.com – How to Draw human figures and portraits
Retired Eye surgeon with a lifelong interest in Art, but never the time to apply my limited skills. Since retirement six months ago I have started painting but felt that I need some training. I started the Anatomy Master Class, which I found quite incredible, best thing I could have done. I do figurative work as well as landscapes. I hope to have a first exhibition later this year in London where I live…
Greetings,
I am excited to have just only today become a lifetime member with this exceptional course from generous, artistic and thoughtful providers who are unselfishly providing this material. What a privilege.
I used to enjoy drawing and did a diploma in fine arts some years ago after high school finished. But because of high expectations or perhaps unattainable standards I had placed upon myself at a deeper concious level, I became discouraged, and stopped drawing because I thought I would never overcome some milestones in technicalities and struggles with certain elements of drawing, and painting was the same problem. I was frustrated with my drawing attempts, because I wanted them to look convincing and bring me satisfaction. Perfectionism was the underlying culprit I believe, sapping my freedom and desire to draw, handcuffing my flow. I would entertain all kinds of doubts about myself such as “there must be something wrong with me, everyone else has got something that I just seemed to have missed out on, that I simply don’t have, I will never be able to draw!”
I have recently resurrected my passion for enjoyment in drawing since a rather long intermission and for around two months now having a bit of a go again…
Dear Natalie and Vladimir,
Thank you very much for your great videos, they are very helpful.
I really enjoy drawing and painting very much and with the lessons I feel that I start to have an understanding of the drawing principles and techniques…
Dear colleagues,
I started the Drawing Academy program in 2013; since then I have been working at my own pace, but doing diligently, trying to take the best of the lessons and I sometimes reviewing them over just to make sure I am getting the drawing principles and techniques right. I enjoy the program not only for the learning of drawing but also for the numerous interesting techniques presented in it, such as the old masters metal point drawing technique.
I confess that in the beginning I was afraid to try metal tips in drawing, for fear that I would ‘mess things up’ easily and not be able to correct them, but I decided to give it a try just to see how far I could go. For my surprise, I was able to prepare the paper medium fairly well, following the clear instructions given in the course; furthermore, I was able to complete one drawing with very pleasing results. So gratifying was the first experience that I decided to try it once more, producing the portrait that I present along with this narrative…
14 x 11 inches, Oil on Canvas
