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How to Draw Apples Still Life with Pencil Step by Step

How to draw apples still life with pencil step by step. With just 3 pencils (HB, 8B and 2B) with can draw a complete still life drawing. There is a longer and narrated version of this video at my spanish channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido" this is the direct link: https://youtu.be/cTDx_sHW_jU Still Life is the one of the best subject in art for learning and teaching drawing and painting. It teaches you how to look at objects and see them like a profesinal artist - with a perceptive awareness of their outline, shape, proportions, tone, color, texture, form and composition, etc. Hope you find it usefull!

One of the Best Drawing Exercise to Boost you Drawing Skills

Drawing is not only the base to any form of graphic art It doesn’t matter if you consider yourself to be a painter, printmaker, etc, drawing is part of the process. And Drawing is an Art Expression Way in itself. Therefore, we can all benefit from improve our drawing habilities. All of us are born artists and with some practice and learning we can improve our artistic drawing skills. The thing about drawing is that some of us still that artists have an innate hability in themselves, that artists born with all their skills already devoloped, but this is not truth. We believe that there is a certain level of skill that we are limited to, and once we reach that level there’s no more room for improvement. People create all kinds of excuses for why they can’t draw better. Truthfully, drawing is a skill that just requires a bit of knowledge, practice and desire to improve. I have repeated this many times, you can be the greatest artist that you want to be, there is no limit. The problem...

One of the Best Portrait Drawing Training Techniques Self Portrait

Today I propose one of the best drawing exercises you can do to improve your skills as portrait painters: The self-portrait. Let's face it. Portrait drawing can be scary to some. You sit down to draw a representational drawing of somebody and something goes really wrong along the way. You're not sure what happened, but you know that the drawing you just created just doesn't quite look like your mother or your boyfriend. Fortunately, this doesn't have to be case. With a bit of knowledge, practice, and few tricks used by the pros, accurate and realistic portrait drawings can be created by anyone - yes you can! It doesn't require talent to create amazing, lifelike portraits. It only requires "know how" and practice. This execise gives you the practice required to create accurate portraits, strategies for locating facial proportions, and techniques used by artists and illustrators to ensure likeness. In my portrait courses, I have always advised m...

How to Draw a Realistic Lioness Step by Step with Pencil | Pencil Drawing Techniques Subtitled)

In today's drawing tutorial we will see how to draw a lioness, step by step, with pencil. If you wish, you can visit my channel in Spanish "Arte Vivo y Divertido" and see the narrated version in Spanish of this tutorial. Link to the Spanish version Link to my channel "Arte Vivo y Divertido" Materials: Canson Paper 120grams Mechanical pencil (mechanical pencil) of 2mm lead, hardness 6B Pencils:  2H, 2B Normal and moldable erasers tissue

How to Draw Sea Waves with Pencil Drawing Techniques

Today drawing tutorial goes on how to draw waves, sea waves on a seascape drawing with pencil, graphite pencil. Fully narrated tutorial with step by step explanations. Drawing lesson for every one, hope you like it! And remember, if you speak spanish, you can watch this video in spanish at my main channel Arte Vivo y Divertido

How to Draw a Rose with Pencil Step by Step | Pencil Drawing Techniques

Is it really possible to draw a realistic rose with just a normal HB (2) pencil? Materials: Fotocopy 80 grams paper (or any chip paper), HB Pencil, ear swabs, putty eraser (or regular)
We are all born artists. As soon as we have enough strength to hold a pencil, we start to draw and paint on the walls, furniture and floor of our houses.   Normally, this behavior derives in the screams of our parents and later we learn that it is better to express our creativity on a sheet of paper. Up there, everything normal. The problem arises when the adults who educate us (parents, teachers, etc.) want to make us understand how to draw or paint: -You DO NOT LEAVE THE LINES -NOT MIXES COLORS WITHOUT ANY ORDER -NOT BE GARABATEA - THIS IS DRAWN LIKE THIS, OR SO ... Then at school the thing gets worse. There are exams, level tests. They force us to draw in such and such a way ... all this, with the best of intentions, of course. and in fact, many teachers try by all means to encourage the creativity of their students. But the educational plans are very strict and are intended to show us that the most important thing is to write without mistakes in spelling, and make cal...