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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 a sketchbook, and draw in it often. Sketchbooks are an important tool for new and young artists for many reasons:
 

As a sketchbook gets filled up the artist feels a sense of accomplishment
A sketchbook will show a progression of improvement in drawing skills
A sketchbook keeps all the artwork in one place
Sketchbooks are easy to transport (especially ones that are spiral-bound or staple-bound so the pages don't fall out)
Artists become personally attached to them, like a diary or journal
Using a sketchbook helps establish a good habit of drawing...

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...

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 for him. Yeah... he...

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,kid would like do the game. Many times a kid fails to trace perfactly. But it is...

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 when she scribbles...

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, dark green, indigo blue and chocolate (the background color mix);
 true green, apple green, lime green, yellow ochre, Spanish orange, poppy red, mulberry, process red, powder blue and white.
Before I start drawing I always print out a black-and-white version of my picture to judge the values (lightness/darkeness) of my subject with accuracy. It helps me pick and mix colors of appropriate lightness/darkness in a drawing.
Step 1:  I draw an outline, after evaluating the values in my grayscale picture. The outline is important and you should spend time drawing it out to make it as perfect as you can.
The lightest area is the flower’s center and the darkest area is the background....

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 excitement: "How in the world do they make these non human characters move?" For me to understand that, at...

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 a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was looking for.However, instead of finding a holy man, our hero entered a room and saw a great deal of activity; merchants coming and going, people chatting in the corners, a small orchestra playing sweet melodies, and there was a table laden with the most delectable dishes of that part of the world.The wise man talked to everybody, and the young man had to wait for two hours until it was time for his audience.With considerable patience, he listened attentively to the reason for the boy’s visit, but told him that at that moment he did not have the time to explain to him the Secret of Happiness.He suggested that the young man take a stroll around his palace and come back in two hours’ time.“However, I want to ask you a favor,” he added, handing the boy a...

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...

A lot of comic books seem to be leaping off the page and into box office success on the big screen. With hits like Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Hellboy 2, and The Dark Knight, 2008 has been the Summer of the Comic Book when it comes to movies. Each of these movie blockbusters came from the imagination of a talented storyteller who was able to put their creativity down on paper. Everyone possesses a vivid imagination; it’s just a...