Learn How to Draw With Free Online Drawing Lessons

Beginning | Intermediate | Advanced | Drawing Videos | Drawing Demonstrations

Beginning

• From 2D Design To 3D Shape With A Pencil And A Plan - Nice and easy gradation makes this 2D design rise up into 3D form.
• Three Dimensional Pyramids with Gradations - Make three dimensional form with pencil gradations. Use three different pencil grades to shade pyramids and create realistic depth.
• My Odd Stick-It-To-Your-Sketchbook Drawing Method For 30 Days Of Drawing Success - If you want to increase your drawing know how or revive it, drawing for 30 days in a row seems to work for everyone and for every skill level. This is how I do it.
• How To Draw A Cat In Four Steps (more or less) -Follow along as I sketch a friend's cat. Instructions and a slide show.
• Texture Hatching Technique - Draw this pine cone by erasing from and hatching into the mid range value.
• Beginning Drawing Practice - Gradation - Draw a Gradation 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 - Make a line drawing of a wild flower using simple shapes.
• First Steps In The Art Of Pencil Drawing - A beginners guide to the art of graphite pencil drawing including the type of pencils to buy and basic instruction on how to use a drawing grid.
• 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.

Intermediate

• Mindless Drawing - Daydreaming is a good thing.
• Shaded Graphite Mandala - Stretching the bounderies of ordinary pencil drawing.
• Organic Form Gradation - use pencil gradations and attention to lighting to create three dimensional organic form.
• 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.
• How To Draw 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

• Drawing Texture Technique on Queen Ann’s Lace - my "layered" technique for building very detailed textures.
• 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.
• Three Pears - I drew these pears from life. This video is longer than the one above but also plays at 5x normal speed.

Drawing 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.
• 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.

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