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How to Practice Drawing
A while back, I thought I’d put down some practical ideas about how to practice to get better as an artist. It’s become one of my most popular articles, but since that time I’ve spent some more time...
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How to Practice Drawing: Phase 1 — Warm Up
Warming up is the first phase of your art practice. This phase is simple but it’s extremely important. On the surface it’s about loosening yourself up, which is part of it, but in truth it’s also a...
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How to Practice Drawing: Phase 2 — Study
To get better as an artist you need to establish a practice, and do it right. The core of this practice is the Study Phase. The Study Phase is meant to be a mental workout. When you push yourself past...
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How to Practice Drawing: Phase 3 — Application
If you’ve done your work so far, this should be the most enjoyable part of practice, although you should still approach it with focus and purpose. Application is where we practice using imagination. As...
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3 Drawing Skills You Should Master
Every drawing skill you want to learn can really be organized into 3 big categories. These are your areas of attack. To continue to grow as an artist you’ll want to make sure you’re studying a subject...
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The One Rule to Drawing Ellipses
There are a lot of harrowing challenges to take on as an artist: learning human anatomy, figuring out perspective, drawing hands, ect. But of all of the epic quests of artdom, none deserves more...
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7 Ways to Study Another Artist
A great piece of art can offer a treasure trove of information on how to draw. Here are seven studies I did of the cover of Invincible 98, by the inimitable Ryan Ottley. The original: There are so...
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How to Make a Good Drawing Great
If you’re anything like me, you decided to become an artist because you picked up a comic, or watched a movie, or saw an album cover that knocked your socks off. It spoke so profoundly to you and...
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Goals Gone Wild
If you’ve been following this blog at all, you might know that one of the recurring themes here is practice and process over goals and achievements. This insight does not come from some great font of...
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How to Ink
A few years back, I had the opportunity to do a workshop in collaboration with Lean Into Art on how to ink. I didn’t talk much about what brush to use, or which paper works best. The focus of the...
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