Drawing Skills
Shading with Only Three Values
How to shade a drawing with just light, middle and dark, so the form reads before any texture is added.
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practice
7 posts tagged "practice".
Drawing Skills
Contour Drawing: A Slow Line That Teaches Looking
How a slow contour drawing trains you to look at edges, and how to use the exercise without making it a style.
Sketchbook Habits
Gesture Drawing at the Kitchen Table
How to practise short gesture drawings at home, using a timer and poses that change before detail can take over.
Sketchbook Habits
Sketchbook Habits That Quietly Stall Progress
Ordinary sketchbook habits that feel like practice and quietly stall progress, and the smaller habits to put in their place.
Sketchbook Habits
Reviewing a Month of Sketchbook Pages
How to review a month of sketchbook pages for repeated subjects, repeated faults and the notes you meant to use.
Sketchbook Habits
Drawing Hands from Life in Short Sittings
A practical way to draw hands from life in short sittings, using simple masses before fingers become the whole problem.
Sketchbook Habits
A Ten-Minute Daily Sketch Routine You Can Actually Keep
A ten-minute daily sketching routine you can actually keep: how to set up, what to draw, and how to track progress kindly.