Learn about Drawing Theory

Become a better artist with these drawing theory tutorials. By mastering the fundamentals, you'll soon see the results as you create more successful drawings.
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  1. Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Four-Legged Animal Walking

    Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Four-Legged Animal Walking

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this tutorial I will be taking you through the steps of how to animate a four-legged animal walking.

  2. How to Draw Vehicles: Tractors

    How to Draw Vehicles: Tractors

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Motorised farm transport has helped for over 100 years preserve the livings and lives of people around the world. Come with me in this tutorial and learn how...

  3. How to Use Gestures to Draw Creatures From Imagination

    How to Use Gestures to Draw Creatures From Imagination

    Tutorial • Beginner

    To draw creatures fast, you need to know anatomy, but anatomy will give you nothing if you can't draw fast. In this tutorial I will show you a way of drawing...

  4. How to Use Optical Illusions to Be a Better Digital Artist

    How to Use Optical Illusions to Be a Better Digital Artist

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Optical illusions, apart from being simply entertaining, reveal secrets about our brains that we can use to create more convincing artworks. After all, every...

  5. How to Start a Drawing: 5 Methods for Beginners

    How to Start a Drawing: 5 Methods for Beginners

    Tutorial • Beginner

    You know what you want to draw, but how do you start? How do you create that first, most important line? There are many methods, and many beginners...

  6. How to Draw Vehicles: Motorcycles

    How to Draw Vehicles: Motorcycles

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In this tutorial, you'll learn how to construct a motorcycle from scratch using very basic shapes and methods.

  7. Geometric Design: Tenfold Star in a Rectangle

    Geometric Design: Tenfold Star in a Rectangle

    Tutorial • Advanced

    We end this series with a pattern both familiar-looking and different: slightly asymmetrical, based on a five-fold division, it can stand alone or be tiled.

  8. How to Draw Vehicles: Trucks & HGVs

    How to Draw Vehicles: Trucks & HGVs

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In this tutorial, you'll learn how to draw one of the kings of the road, a tractor unit for a 16-wheel truck. We will cover setting up perspective, basic...

  9. How to Draw

    How to Draw

    Tutorial • Beginner

    There's no simple answer to this simple question: how to draw? I have written many articles and tutorials tackling various aspects of this complex skill....

  10. Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern

    Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern

    Tutorial • Advanced

    A lovely and unusual tiling pattern that will test your patience and accuracy and is great fun to colour.

  11. Geometric Design: The "Heavenly City" Diagram

    Geometric Design: The "Heavenly City" Diagram

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    In this tutorial we dip our toes into sacred geometry proper, with a construction said to be the plan of the ideal city revealed in the Bible.

  12. Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Flying Bird

    Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Flying Bird

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this tutorial I will take you through the steps of animating a flying bird. In a short time you will be animating your own flying bird!

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