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
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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
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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
Mike Creighton
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
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"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
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"I simply have to draw," says Robin Hilthouse, an art lecturer in The Netherlands who teaches traditional and digital drawing techniques. "It’s second nature. On the bus, on the phone, in a meeting, during my holidays…I couldn’t imagine myself without this amazing way of
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Self-taught artist Kimberly Ann Petersen creates dramatic ink portraits that appear etched into paper - an ode to the Western etching art she fell in love with growing up in rural Idaho. Based in Augusta, Ga., Kimberly has five children and considers herself "living proof that anyone, no matter
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Juan Perednik is an Argentinian graphite artist who uses his grasp of classical drawing techniques to bend artistic “rules” and bring his imagination to life on the page. “Drawing,” he says, “is the most sincere form of art and the foundation for working in any other medium.” Juan's
