Drawing Time

In this project, your primary goal is to study and emulate the crosshatching style of Michelangelo. The reference photo, of an adorable todd...

This sketch of Mona Lisa offers a fun opportunity to practice the hatching techniques of Leonardo da Vinci. The primary goal of this proje...

In this lesson, you attempt to recreate Leonardo's drawing styles and techniques, as well as create the illusion that the drawing is sev...

This is the third in a series of six lessons on painting with acrylics. In this lesson, you learn how to do an underpainting, blend wet pain...

This is the second in a series of six lessons that takes you through the process of learning the basics of painting with acrylics. In this l...

This is the first in a series of six lessons that takes you through the process of learning how to paint with acrylics. View Onlin...

This heavily illustrated article guides you through one of the processes that I use for drawing a highly detailed caricature. Traditionally ...

This adorable Maltese (named Wesley) is the proud owner of my wonderful stepdaughter Renée, and her (equally wonderful) husband Dave. Drawi...

This advanced lesson has very few text instructions; rather, a series of illustrations takes you through the process of drawing a delicate s...

Squirkling works perfectly for rendering diverse highly realistic drawing subjects, including many found in nature as well as several made b...

In this project, you use graduated hatching to define the three dimensional forms and the fuzzy texture of an adorable teddy bear. The littl...

The overall impact of a portrait of a smiling subject is only as strong as its weakest part. Drawing teeth poorly is often the cause of a ru...

A basic knowledge of the physical aging processes allows you to accurately draw people of various ages. The age regression and progression t...

In this project, you draw an eye, with a focus on correctly rendering the structures of the anatomical forms surrounding the orbital cavity....

Meet Katie – my sweet, lovable, mixed-breed dog whose pedigree includes Rottweiler and pit bull (and probably beagle). We adopted Katie from...

With colored pencils and a simple fun technique called impressing, you create a gorgeous pattern on the wings of a butterfly cartoon. Butter...

This article is designed to help you prepare a practical shopping list for buying useful brushes to enhance your painting experiences. Good ...

In this lesson, you discover how to make secondary colors from primary colors, and explore a basic color wheel, complementary colors, and wa...

Even if you're an expert in botany, you'll have a hard time figuring out what kind of tree this is. The tree in this lesson doesn’t ...

This heavily illustrated lesson takes you step-by-step, through the entire process of drawing a realistic rosebud. Text is kept to a minimu...

In this article I offer suggestions for putting several different subjects together in a drawing. If you’re a fan of costumes and special ef...

In this lesson you will be taught how to draw curly hair and the step-by-step process presented can be altered to suit any hair style. Befor...

As you draw a lifelike eye, you are challenged by the adversary of portrait artists' natural looking eyelashes. Eyes are the most expres...

A frontal portrait of a teenage girl challenges artists to draw long strands of realistic hair with contour hatching. A grid (optional) hel...

In this lesson, you first sketch the proportions of a caricature of a female adult named Kay within a grid of twenty-four squares. You then ...

In this lesson, you sketch the proportions of a caricature within a grid of twenty-four squares, and then use graduated hatching to add sha...

Cartoons are always fun to draw, and a lighthearted way to strengthen your drawing skills. My sketch of this mischievous looking toddler inc...

This lesson offers an ideal transition from beginner level projects into intermediate. Thirty-seven illustrations and simple step-by-step in...

In this project, you draw a fun cartoon of a three-eyed alien, by using hatching and crosshatching to shade realistic eyes, and the three di...

Meet Bill - the proud owner of my friend Lynn! In this project, you sketch proportions and then add texture to the various parts of his head...

A realistic rendering of a Black Widow spider provides artists with an opportunity to enhance various drawing skills. Text instructions are ...

When looking at a drawing by an accomplished artist, have you ever noticed that one specific item catches your eye more than others? This is...

A telltale sign of a professional artist is the ability to render a neat, clean artwork. Yet, quite often in early stages of the creative pr...

During my lengthy career, I’ve made tons of mistakes and learned from them. With necessity being the mother of invention, I’ve also discover...

With a focus on improving your observation skills, this project offers simple illustrated instructions, to guide aspiring artists through th...

The primary goal of this project is to strengthen your skills with drawing curved lines. You first outline the various contours of a cartoon...

This heavily illustrated lesson is ideal for beginners who feel ready to take on more intricate and time-consuming projects. View O...

In this project, you set up the facial proportions of a Jack Russell Terrier named Jumpin Jack, add blended shading to his eyes and nose, an...

This project relies completely on freehand drawing without the help of drawing tools such as a grid. You first draw a simple line drawing, a...

In this project, you first sketch Rocky’s proportions within your drawing space and outline his forms. You then use short thin lines to make...

How many times have you tried to draw a person, and finally given up in frustration saying ?I can?t get this right?? Be patient with yours...

This heavily illustrated project invites you to use a simple grid to outline a realistically proportioned face of an adorable baby named Bra...

A profile of an infant’s tiny face, shaded with hatching lines, provides insights into his or her facial proportions in relation to the head...

With a focus on improving your observation skills by drawing upside-down, this project guides you through the process of combining lines wit...

Rough, gesture, or action sketches are usually rendered very quickly, sometimes in less than a minute. The benefits of making rough sketche...

Before you attempt to draw adult faces, it helps to know how to plan a place for everything, sort of like a blueprint. Even though the heads...

This lesson is designed to introduce a beginner to several aspects of shading, from preparing and holding a pencil to creating and blending ...

In this project, you draw a three dimensional cartoon by using contour hatching to shade the four spheres that define the forms of the head,...

Tulips are among the most beautiful flowers and are also quite easy to draw. In this project, you use slightly curved hatching lines of vari...

This fun project takes you step-by-step through the process of drawing a seahorse. You first sketch proportions, then outline the various co...