So, what is it that usually makes a drawing habit fail? In most cases, it’s because your session asks for too much. When you sit down at an empty page, it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but then slowly,…
Every artist’s sketchbooks get filled with mistakes way before they get filled with drawings we like. And that’s something we should celebrate, because mistakes are the most helpful kind of feedback in drawing. In a way, your mistakes are showing…
Flat drawings aren’t usually a product of laziness, but rather a lack of understanding for how an object rotates. A novice might carefully trace an apple, a mug, or a book, but the drawing will still appear as though it…
Often, problems encountered during the earliest days of learning to draw predate shading, details, and style. They start when the eye sees a mug, a foot, or a sofa while the pencil attempts to capture that single object at a…