Learn How to Draw With Free Online Drawing Lessons

Beginning

• How To Draw A Cat In Four Steps (more or less) - steps with instruction and a slide show.

• Beginning Drawing Practice - Graduation - Draw a Graduation while learning pencil control.

• Beginning Drawing Practice - Smoothie - This drawing exercise teaches you control over your pencil and eraser.

• Beginning Line Drawing - Make a line drawing and use it in many creative ways.

• Blind Contour Drawing - Blind contour drawing is a classic way to warm up before you draw.

• Draw A Teddy Bear - Includes a reference photo so you can draw along with the steps.

• Draw a Spring Beauty Wild Flower - Sketch from nature.

• How To Draw Simple Flowers - Draw simple flowers with a coin, a straight edge, and a pencil.

• Shading Basics - Learn an easy shading technique.

• Shade a Ball - Practice shading a simple ball.

• Sketching From The Middle - Draw this pine cone by starting with a mid range value.

Intermediate

• Red Horses, Green Fields, and Why Artists Have to Lie

• Key – What It Is, Why It Matters To Your Drawings, And How To Change It (Part One)

• Key – What It Is, Why It Matters To Your Drawings, And How To Change It (Part Two)

• A Step by Step Draw Along - Draw Your Coffee Mug - Draw your mug in seven steps with a few simple drawing tools.

• Creating Three Dimensional Form with Value - How to draw modeled form with value by drawing a still life.

• How to Draw a Scallop Shell in Six Steps - Learn how to sculpt form by erasing highlights and adding shadows to a "base" value.

• How to Draw a Shiny Ornament in Six Steps - Shiny ornaments have lots of reflections which are challenging but fun to draw. This drawing lesson shows you how to draw them in simple steps.

• How to Draw a Rose - Step by step instruction on how to draw a simple rose with graphite pencil.

• Advanced Shading - Learn a more sophisticated shading technique that builds on basic shading.

• Draw and Shade a Flower - Practice Advanced Shading by drawing a realistic flower.

• Quick Sketching - Create form with shadow and light in three steps.

• Draw A Teddy Bear - This little Teddy is all about form, value, and texture.

Advanced

• How to Draw a Horse - This online drawing lesson is fully illustrated and my realistic technique is explained in detail.

• Sketch a Yarn Ball - A sketching from life exercise.

Drawing Videos

• Still Life Study of Apples - I recorded this video in real time, but it plays at 5x normal speed so you can see the drawing being made at a very quick pace.

Drawing Technique Demonstrations, Exercises, and Advice

• Figure Drawing for Artists Who Don't Have a Figure - Figure drawing strategies for artists who don't have a model.

• How to Make and Use Powdered Graphite - Powdered or loose graphite (the same stuff that pencil leads are made of) can be applied to a drawing with a brush.

• Photoshop Composition - How to use Photoshop as a compositional tool.

• Buddy on the Blanket - This drawing of a tuxedo cat was scanned at different stages so that you could see my drawing method. I've described each step as if you were there watching me draw.

• How I Draw with Graphite - An overview of my drawing philosophy and technique.

• How I Add Fantasy to my Artwork - How I draw fantasy with the help of clay models.