Sketchbook Tour: Brush Pen Inspiration with Patrick Hochstenbach

"When drawing," says Patrick Hochstenbach, "story is everything." Patrick is an illustrator and comic artist from Brugge, Belgium. He loves to work with brush and ink and draws influence from many Franco-Belgian artists such as Hergé, Franquin, Tardi and Giraud. In this tour, Patrick shares four

Draw a Realistic Pencil Portrait Really Quickly with Kate Higgins

Kate Higgins often creates intricate, realistic graphite portraits that take many hours to complete. For example: But in this lesson... Kate shows how to create a striking, precise portrait in a much shorter period of time (76 mins). Her lesson covers everything from head construction to... ...blending and rendering hair�

Sketchbook Tour: Get Real with Kate Higgins

Artist Kate Higgins creates captivating, lifelike portraits with just a pencil and piece of paper. In this tour, Kate shares six stunning portrait drawings and discusses her artistic thinking and process for each. Kate's full-length pencil-portrait tutorial comes out this Friday, August 9. Subscribe now to get full

Draw a Dramatic Charcoal Portrait with Claudio Saes

Meet new teacher Claudio Saes! Claudio is a South American, self-taught artist in Dallas, Texas, who has held exhibitions in the US, Mexico, and Brazil. In this lesson (80 mins), Claudio demonstrates his process of drawing a dramatic charcoal portrait from start to finish. Claudio guides us from the very

Gear Up for Charcoal Drawing with Claudio Saes

If you've been wanting to get into charcoal drawing but daunted by the learning curve, artist Claudio Saes is here to help. In this video, Claudio shares his favorite charcoal pencils, erasers, and highlighting tools. He also demonstrates his technique for sharpening a charcoal pencil with a razor

Mix Ink and Watercolor with Richard Banks

In his previous lesson, designer and self-taught artist Richard Banks demonstrated his bold process of drawing a portrait in ink. View that lesson here. Ink an Imperfect Portrait with Richard Banks“You really need to go into inking ready to embrace error,” says Richard Banks, a designer and self-taught artist

Mike Creighton Gives a Sketchbook Tour of Contours

Recently Mike Creighton taught paying subscribers how to "sculpt" their drawing subjects using a technique called contour hatching, which he describes as "almost like stretching a mesh around the form you're drawing." In this sketchbook tour, Mike shows how he uses this one technique

Ink an Imperfect Portrait with Richard Banks

"You really need to go into inking ready to embrace error," says Richard Banks, a designer and self-taught artist in London. "In portraiture, we’re not after perfection - we’re after impression.” In this lesson (69 mins), Richard demonstrates his bold style of direct inking and

Sketchbook Tour: Exchange Words with Margriet Aasman

Artist Margriet Aasman's inspiring sketchbook tour gives new meaning to the phrase "mark my words". During the tour, Margriet shares one of her strategies for staying motivated to draw regularly: adding a word or phrase to the page. "The word doesn't have to

Draw 'In The Right Place' with Margriet Aasman

When drawing, says artist Margriet Aasman, "take your time not to rush." This advice may sound counterintuitive – until you realize how often we subconsciously put effort and time into making ourselves unnecessarily frenzied. In this lesson (71 mins), Margriet takes the opposite approach, settling into a relaxed mood

Sculpt Your Portrait Subject with Contour Hatching

There are many ways to render form and value in a drawing including well-known techniques like shading and crosshatching. In this lesson (92 mins), artist Mike Creighton demonstrates a less-practiced method called contour hatching, which he describes as "almost like stretching a mesh around the form you're

Paint a 'Wild' Watercolor Portrait with Milena Guberinic

"Wild, unpredictable, chaotic, and messy." This is how Milena Guberinic describes watercolor painting and her own biography, which includes growing up amid civil war, losing her father at a young age, and currently managing chronic illness. "Drawing and painting have always been my ways of processing my