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November 3, 2012 By Thomo

How To Draw A Ferrari Scuderia Spider In Pencil

If you like fast cars and want to know how to draw one then this is a great drawing video which allows you to follow one particular artist sketch a Ferrari Scuderia in time lapse.

This video acts as a guide for you to follow the steps of how a car is drawn and to follow the progression from start t finish. The sketch artist begins by drawing the basic geometric shape to gather the rough size and perspective of the Ferrari. Once this light pencil work has been drawn onto the paper the shell of the car is drawn in using a series of guidelines to establish the proportions.

Once the linear pencil work is drawn (possibly using a HB pencil) the artist then moves on to establishing the individual components which create the make up of the Ferrari. As a beginner to art this video will help you see the initial stages which are undertook to fulfill the dimensions of the supercar as well as offering good visual insight into how the various panels are shaded and rendered to get to the final design.

There are many different ways to take on the drawing of a car but this video definitely ticks the boxes for producing a well detailed and proportioned pencil sketch of one.

October 29, 2012 By Thomo

How To Draw A Very Detailed Eye In Pencils

This video tutorial successfully shows the keen artist all the different methods and techniques used to draw an extremely detailed eye in pencils. The basic shape of the eye in a simple line drawing is the basis for this video and then in a step by step manner combined with a selection of still images you will quickly learn the stages involved with drawing an eye. The correct places to use tone are highlighted around the eyelid in the drawing and other key areas are talked about. The use of both soft and hard pencils is key to maximise their different qualities, for example when drawing the eyelashes a harder pencil should be used. The video is a cracking representation of how to draw an eye in detail.

October 27, 2012 By Thomo

How To Draw A Smile In Pencil From A Reference Photo

This artist delivers an extremely thorough ‘how to’ video here where you can expect to using a variety of mediums to learn how to draw a mouth, lips and teeth direct from a reference photo.

The video is in four parts, the first part being the establishing and drawing of the basic shapes to form the lips. In the second part the artist adds the first base colors of tone to the lips and teeth and dissolves common misconceptions that teeth are separated by dark tones when in actual fact there are usually only light and medium tones. Part three is the prep work for his oil paint application and also finishing finer detailed work with the coloring pencils.

Park four shows the introduction of a Winsor & Newton medium Liquin to blend the oil paint and the waxy texture of the colored pencil to soften the impression and appearance of the lips. This is a great video for beginners and intermediates alike.

October 25, 2012 By Thomo

How To Draw ‘L’ From ‘Death Note’ In Pencil

This art video shows a young artist drawing the character ‘L’ from the popular anime/manga series Death Note in a time lapsed format to cut the video length down.

You get the opportunity to see where to begin when drawing certain anime characters and this artist has used what I would deem a 2B pencil to concentrate on the nearest eye by beginning with drawing a faint outline until the proportions are correct before then going over it with the heavier thicker final lines.

The same technique is applied throughout the drawing although there is some shading work involved with the hair and areas within and around the eyes which gives the character a more 3D presence. So all you will need here to have a go yourself is quite simply a nice sketch pad, some medium to soft drawing pencils and an eraser to add highlights or scrub out what doesn’t look right, but most importantly just have fun and enjoy your art.

October 25, 2012 By Thomo

Mark Crilley: Drawing Hands In Two Different Ways

In this video Crilley satisfies a viewer’s request by demonstrating how to draw hands in two different ways. He adopts a boxing in style to get the basic geometrics sorted before he goes on to adding details like knuckles and palms etc. One hand is male and the other is female, so the selection is there for you. Good narration as you come to expect with Crilley as he guides you through his drawing tutorials.

October 24, 2012 By Thomo

Albrecht Durer – Watercolor Pencils

This video has been introduced to cater for a debate about the fine painting and drawing …which watercolor pencils might best present a really stunning piece of work.
I was inspired by works from an artist Debber from the USA who has produced some lovely works and is hopefully going to produce a video for this site.

October 23, 2012 By Thomo

Mark Crilley: Drawing Two Different Hands, Open Palm And Writing Style

Another classic art tutorial from Crilley showing you how to draw two different styles of hand in pencil. Through expert narrative and an easy step by step approach you will come out of the other side with I’m sure a hand you will be proud of. An excellent humble art teacher. He uses artistic pencils to compose his drawing onto his sketch pad first of all in a light style to get the initial guidelines and then once he is happy with his sketch he then works the pencil to produce a coarser more dominant pencil line.

October 22, 2012 By Thomo

How To Draw A Face On The Profile

In this video you are taught how to draw the face on the profile by the virtual instructor from www.thevirtualinstructor.com.

Starting from the shoulders the artist lightly sketches with his pencil the neck and the basic shape of the head. Once he is happy with his outline he explains how to draw the eyes and nose by deciding the height of both of these features and drawing a horizontal line across the profile of the head. Next up is defining the edge of the face by carefully�deciphering the correct proportions and applying a darker line with the pencil to finalise the features of the nose, brow, lips and the chin. He spends extra time explaining how to draw the lips proportions correctly. The top lip in general for most people protrudes the bottom lip so take special care when attempting your drawing to understand this.

The next stage of the profile drawing is to line up the eyes with the ears and draw the ear in the middle of the head’s profile. It will be easy to tell if you have drawn the ear too far forward or too far back because it will quite simply look out of place with the rest of the features within the drawing.

Once the hair has been drawn and used to finalise the over profile of the head the artist begins to add shading and tonal values in the areas which are hidden from his selected hypothetical light source. This shading process continues throughout the remainder of the drawing using various�thickness’s of pencil to shade in block areas and some slightly more discreet regions like around the cheekbones and the eyebrow. �If you are a beginner and wish to learn how to draw the human head more confidently then this is a great and well narrated art tutorial for you to practice from.

October 20, 2012 By Thomo

Mark Crilley: How To Draw Backgrounds In One Point Perspective

In this video you will learn the basic principles surrounding perspective, in particular ‘one point’ perspective. What this means is there is a viewpoint which leads to one vanishing point. Crilley describes the understanding behind it in some detail. It would be difficult to draw for a beginner or even as a first attempt but the video is more to do with using the perspective lines and achieving correct proportions. The scene is a post apocalyptic world do could be good fun to draw. Reach for those pencils and have a go yourself.

October 18, 2012 By Thomo

Sheldon Borenstein: How To Draw Hands From Life- A Detailed Demonstration

Sheldon Borenstein offers a valuable insight into two methods of how to draw hands in this detailed and observant drawing tutorial.

The entire hand should be treated as a body as it contains all the necessary components hypothetically speaking like the limbs, main torso and the head so it is very important when drawing the hand that shape and form is of paramount importance. Pencil sketch artist Borenstein studies the hand of the wax figure and uses a soft grade pencil to lightly define all the outlines which form the major construction and body of the hand. Next, he goes in with the side of his white charcoal pencil and picks out the highlights of the side planes for example the edges of the fingers and palm, this begins to develop body within your pencil sketch.

More complex areas of bone and thin skin like around the knuckle areas are drawn in and emphasised adding linear proportions and a definite shape to the form of the hand, and it is with a selection of hard lines and soft lines that the appearance of realism starts to unfold. He talks about drawing with the shoulder rather than the wrist because it allows a freer flow of the pencil rather than complicating your style with too much unnecessary pencil shading and intricate line work.

A cross hatch method is adopted when shading with the pencil using both the white chalk pencil and the dark soft pencil to compliment and contrast each other with either deep tonal shades or�striking�white highlights.

The end of the pencil drawing tutorial shows the artist laying tracing paper over his finished sketch and he begins to section each of the fingers and components into blocks to allow you to see how the hand and any other part of the human body has it’s roots fundamentally rooted in basic geometrics. Learning to draw the hand can become very easy when this method is used over and over and is a very quick and useful way to be able to draw hands in all their various positions. Get your sketchbook and pencils and go out in public to get some practice in how to draw people’s hands.

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