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  • Nils Osmar

    Finding a good drawing pencil

    August 04, 2010 by Nils Osmar

    Finding a good drawing pencil If you go into an art supply store, you’ll see what may seem a bewildering variety of pencils. Some are graphite, others are made from charcoal or other materials.  Some...

  • Use a Sketch Book!

    Use a Sketch Book!

    November 03, 2009 by DrawingBoardArt

    Drawing is one of those skills that can always be improved upon. And, for the beginner or young artist, practice (a lot of practice!) is important. One of the best ways to practice drawing is to keep...

  • Lida Wu

    Draw Something Familiar or Favorite

    October 26, 2009 by Lida Wu

    Always, I ask my students to draw what they are familar or they like, especilly for their first class. That's my best way to break the ice of my art classes. Usually, they will brain storm and get excited...

  • Lida Wu

    Kid's Way to Draw

    September 05, 2009 by Lida Wu

    Professional artists can find out a way to draw or paint. Kids too. My student Jon is 5 years old. He likes to trace everything once I taught him how to trace. He felt tracing is his best way to draw...

  • Lida Wu

    Trace Shapes

    September 04, 2009 by Lida Wu

    How does kid start drawing? I was wondering all the time and paying attention to that. Of course, kid starts to draw from scribble, then if the parents give him/her shapes and show how to trace the outline...

  • Lida Wu

    Kids' Scribble

    August 27, 2009 by Lida Wu

    I once asked my art teacher where was the inspiration from. He told me that it could be from anything even scribble. 10 years past, I finally realized it in my 2-year daughter's sketch book. Every time...

  • Step-by-Step Colored Pencil Drawing Demonstration: Orchid

    Step-by-Step Colored Pencil Drawing Demonstration: Orchid

    June 25, 2009 by veronicasart

    This demonstration focuses on basic layering technique in colored pencil. The goal is to get cool tones of the flower contrasting dark, color combinations of the background. Basic Colors: Black cherry...

  • feelartistic

    Animation for kids

    May 12, 2009 by feelartistic

    Why I am offering "Animation" class specially for kids? When I was a kid, I always wondered how to animate cartoons? "Popeye the sailor man" was the first short cartoon movie I saw. I screamed with...

  • hassan fedawy

    Drawing is how to see yourself.

    May 04, 2009 by hassan fedawy

    Balance A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of...

  • AWE-Some Portrait

    AWE-Some Portrait

    April 06, 2009 by AWE Studio

    At AWE Studio, I just finished teaching a charcoal portraiture class. The photos above capture the weekly progress of drawing a portrait by concentrating on the forms and values of shadows, instead of...

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