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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. Quick Tip: Turn a Side View Into a 3D View in Photoshop

    Quick Tip: Turn a Side View Into a 3D View in Photoshop

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Do you feel limited by a simple side view, but perspective seems too complicated for you? There's a trick you can use to give your characters a new dimension!

  2. The Basics of Sketching With Charcoal

    The Basics of Sketching With Charcoal

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Nothing is more freeing than sketching with charcoal. You can capture quick moments or detailed scenes with this black stick. In this tutorial I'll cover the...

  3. Geometric Design: Working With 5 and 10

    Geometric Design: Working With 5 and 10

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this lesson you will learn how to construct the remaining polygons, with not only five and ten, but also seven, nine and eleven sides, and explore the...

  4. Draw Your Mind Out: How to Create Without Thinking

    Draw Your Mind Out: How to Create Without Thinking

    Tutorial • Beginner

    How to draw something you have never seen? How to create on the fly, without a reference, when you're not experienced yet? How to bring your ideas out and...

  5. Two-Layer Color Pencil Technique

    Two-Layer Color Pencil Technique

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Colored pencils may seem like a childish medium, but in this tutorial I'm going to show you the two-layer technique. By layering two disparate colors, you...

  6. Geometric Design: Working With 6 and 12

    Geometric Design: Working With 6 and 12

    Tutorial • Beginner

    This third lesson covers six- and twelve-sided shapes and stars, the construction grids that go with them, and a slew of new basic and intermediate tiling...

  7. Why Is It So Hard to Draw From Imagination? Here's How to Do It!

    Why Is It So Hard to Draw From Imagination? Here's How to Do It!

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Can you draw from a reference, but not from imagination? Are you constantly frustrated because of that? In this article I'll show you the reason for it and,...

  8. Geometric Design: Working With 4 and 8

    Geometric Design: Working With 4 and 8

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this part of our series on geometric design, you'll learn to construct static and dynamic squares and octagons, our first grid, and tiling patterns based...

  9. How to Create a Tonal Portrait Using Pencils

    How to Create a Tonal Portrait Using Pencils

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Want to create a stunning black and white portrait while skipping a few steps in the middle? Tonal portraits use the color of the paper as a middle tone,...

  10. Geometric Design: The Basics

    Geometric Design: The Basics

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Geometry may be a bad high school memory for some of us, but it is the key to a very old, fascinating and endlessly creative art form, that requires no other...

  11. Live Perspective: Draw Animals in 3D Space

    Live Perspective: Draw Animals in 3D Space

    Tutorial • Intermediate

    Learn how to draw simple shapes in perspective and build complicated animal skeletons out of them. Add depth to your animal drawings and create interesting,...

  12. Defining and Valuing Art

    Defining and Valuing Art

    Tutorial • Beginner

    What is art? Can it really be defined? And if not, how can it have any value? How to tell whether you're a bad or a good artist? In this article I'll explore...

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