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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. Digital Painting 101: A Beginner's Guide to Photo References

    Digital Painting 101: A Beginner's Guide to Photo References

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Photographs are an important tool for any artist because they show you how things actually appear in nature. In today's continuation of Digital Painting 101,...

  2. Digital Drawing vs. Digital Painting: What's the Difference?

    Digital Drawing vs. Digital Painting: What's the Difference?

    Tutorial • Beginner

    You can draw with a pencil, but when you grab a graphics tablet pen this skill seems to evaporate. Why does it happen? Why is digital drawing so much harder...

  3. Geometric Design: Working With Circles

    Geometric Design: Working With Circles

    Tutorial • Beginner

    In this lesson that rounds off the basics of geometry, we learn to draw spirals and to fit circles inside other shapes.

  4. 10 Drawing Myths That Block Your Progress

    10 Drawing Myths That Block Your Progress

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Are you frustrated about your art? Discover ten popular misconceptions about drawing that may have a negative impact on your progress

  5. Quick Tip: Five Uses of Coil Drawing

    Quick Tip: Five Uses of Coil Drawing

    Tutorial • Beginner

    Discover a very simple technique that will solve five of your problems with drawing: copying proportions from a reference, achieving depth, creating...

  6. 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!

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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,...

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