Lines in Art The Difference Between Flat and Dynamic Drawings Lines in art can make all the difference in your drawings. This was pounded into us in art school. From gesture sketches to animation, lines of varying weight and style can take your drawings from flat to dynamic. What do I mean by line weight? […]
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3 Tips for Keeping Your Artwork Fresh
3 Tips for Keeping Your Artwork Fresh Because Stale Doesn’t Appeal to Anybody Keeping your artwork fresh is a challenge for a lot of artists. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut where you’re just busy drawing, painting, sculpting, etc. day after day, month after month, year after year. You do things the way […]
Comparing Yourself to Artists You Admire
Comparing Yourself to Artists You Admire The One Time It Could Benefit You Comparing yourself to artists you admire is always a bad idea, right? In fact, I’ve always said so. But what if I told you that there is one, and only one time when comparing yourself to other artists could be beneficial. What? […]
Drawing Comes First
Drawing Comes First It Really Is The First Step Drawing comes first. Literally. Do you have dreams of being a digital artist or a painter? Then you must learn to draw. Many people have the misconception that they can skip this step. They’re under the impression that the medium will somehow give them the ability […]
Drawing Basics
Drawing Basics Putting the Elements Into Practice So what are the drawing basics? Now that we’ve discussed all of the basic elements of art, let’s start getting into how they apply. We won’t be looking into all of them right away. Color, for example, won’t apply to what we’re doing right now, so we’ll put […]
Texture
Texture It Makes Life Interesting So, let’s briefly discuss our last basic art element, texture. In a nutshell, texture is the way things feel, or the way things look like they might feel if touched. Texture is all around us. The smooth polish of a granite countertop versus the smooth, soft surface of a leather […]
Value – Part 1
Value – Part 1 What’s the Big Deal? Value is an incredibly important element of art and with good reason. Simply put, it is the lightness or darkness of hues (colors). When dealing with black and white for example, white is the lightest value and black is the darkest. The value halfway between these extremes […]
Shape, Form, and Space
Shape, Form, and Space What’s the Difference? Shape is an enclosed two-dimensional geometric or organic shape that has height and width, but no depth. Form is a three-dimensional space that encloses volume, includes height, width, AND depth. Like shape, it can be geometric or organic. Space refers to the areas around, between, and within things […]
Line in Art
Line in Art It’s More Than You Might Think Line, by definition, is a dot that creates an identifiable path by moving in space. It is one, two, or three dimensional and can vary in width, direction, and length. They often define the edges of a form and can be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved or […]
A Brief Note on Color
A Brief Note on Color In a Nutshell… I am going to touch briefly on color in this post. In last week’s post, I shared the link for a free Skillshare class I did a couple years ago called How to Draw: The Very Basics. In it, I started off by covering the basic elements […]
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