Artist's Back to Basics

Back to The Drawing Board

Along, long time ago in the land of brown robed Christian Brothers and black and white Nuns, I lived in a world of Times Tables, Logic, English Grammar and the monotonous repetition of historical dates and facts. In this world, Art took a back seat on...

Materials and Equipment – Part 2

Ok, in the last article we got through three of the main hand tools necessary to draw in freehand. To re-cap these are: Staedtler Mars Lumograph 2B drafting pencils, a stock of vinyl erasers cut into strips and wrapped in paper, and a surgically clean,...

The Bare Bones

Before any toning of a drawing can begin you have to first get to what I call the ‘bare bones’ stage (the bare bones of the drawing) which is laying down all the features of the composition that can reasonably be represented by an outline as accurately...

Removing Paint from Watercolour Paper With Leonie Norton

Fig 1. The tip of the scalpel will remove small spots Fig 2. Larger spots are scraped off with the rounded edge of the scalpel Fig 3. Some paper residue will remain Fig 4. Use soft brush to remove residue Fig 5. Example of overpainting on a leaf edge...

Magic Pencil Tricks

When it comes to freehand drawing, the pencil in your hand is so much more than simply the means of making marks on the paper. It’s also an absolutely indispensible tool that allows you to make any number of proportional judgements in the course of...

DRAWING TIPS WITH BRETT A. JONES

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