Drawing with Kneaded Erasers

Kneaded erasers are an essential tool to drawing.  Thing is, when you are just starting out learning how to draw, you can’t easily figure out what to do with these strange objects.  This video will help you know. It’s useful to know that there are two ways...

How to Draw Flower Blossoms

We want to know how to draw flower blossoms, but botanists have a dizzying number of ways to categorize flowers, I have discovered in researching this page.  But we are artists, not scientists, and we don’t need all that.  So I bravely waded into the terminology up to...

Filippo Brunelleschi and Linear Perspective

Florentine architect and sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi “rediscovered” linear perspective in the early 15th century, while its rules were more fully developed about twenty years later by art theorist Leon Battista Alberti. Portrait of Brunelleschi I say...

Principle 5: Two Point Perspective

Two point perspective is our last major principle.  This is pretty exciting, because with what you will have learned here you will be able to draw pretty much what you want to in terms of perspective drawing. You will have suspected by now that rather than one place...

Principle 4: One Point Perspective

One point perspective.  That’s the name for where we are, now we have a good understanding of Principle 1, Principle 2 and Principle 3.  In other words, when you have a composition with all the lines joining up at one point on the horizon line, i.e. at one place...