All in One Watercolor Travel Set We’ve all had times where we wanted to take our art on the road, but it’s not always easy to do. But if you’re looking to paint on location the Koi watercolor travel set makes it super easy. Everything is included in an easy to carry case, and there’s […]
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Sidewalk Crack Faces Creativity Exercise for Artists Creating cracked sidewalk art is great for helping you improve your creativity. It forces you to create a face from pre-existing lines that you have to incorporate into your face drawing. You could do something other than faces, but it will push your creativity further if you stick
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How to Make Watercolor Splotch Doodle Art Learning to create art is a lot of fun, if you do it right. Making watercolor splotch animal doodles is one of the ways to enjoy the process of learning to draw. This started as a way to clean my watercolor palette. I’ve been using this same palette
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Step by Step Continuous Line Drawing Face Continuous line drawing faces are a lot of fun to create. Especially if you do blind-contour drawings. You can do a self portrait, like in this lesson, or you can draw someone else’s face. Either way it’s a good drawing exercise to do if you want to improve
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Easy Robot Drawing Using Shapes and Forms It’s really easy to learn how to draw robots, especially if you’re using shapes and forms as your guidelines. There are so many different ways to draw robots. Use robot reference photos for ideas. And then change the way you draw them to make them your own. The more
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Drawing with Shapes Today I’d like to talk about how to use shapes to draw. Many artists begin their drawings using shapes. Just about anything you could ever want to draw can be broken down into basic shapes. Circle, rectangle, or square. Or their 3d counterparts, sphere, cylinder, and cube. In my article on how
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How to Do Drawing Exercises and Warm Up Sketching These easy drawing exercises should be done daily. Or at the very least, before you begin doing a more structured drawing. There are many benefits to warming up with drawing exercises or warm up sketches. For starters, warming up with drawing exercises loosens the muscles. It’s
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Ribbon Lettering Name Drawing ribbon names are so easy and so much fun. Today you’re going to learn a technique that makes it super simple to draw the ribbons and make them look 3D. This is a drawing tutorial that all skill levels can follow along with. And as you develop your artistic skills you
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Dragon Eye Drawing Challenge For the 7 day dragon eye drawing challenge, I once again used artist trading cards (ATC) for my drawings. I’ve been trading ATCs for years, and find I get a little obsessive over it. But using ATCs for my 7 day challenges allows me to kill two birds with one stone,
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What Are the 7 Elements of Art What are the 7 elements of art, and why do we need them? We will get into what they are in a few minutes. But first, let’s take a look at why you need them. The most obvious answer is, to create art. It’s impossible to create any
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