Let's take a look at two different approaches to achieving proportion in a portrait drawing. We'll c...

One of the most asked about techniques in oil painting is glazing! Old masters like Vermeer used it ...

The concept I found most confusing when I was learning oil painting was how to follow the Fat Over L...

If you're a new painter looking to understand terms related to underpaintings that look like Greek t...

A reader wrote in with a question about how to create a regular time to create. Sara writes:

Any tr...

A subscriber wrote in asking a question so many of us have encountered when figure drawing: How do y...

One of the challenges of drawing is to translate color into values. Can you identify the value of a ...

A question came in recently about using abstract shapes and straight lines to plan out realistic dra...

Is it awkward to be in a room with a naked person? What materials should you bring? Should you draw ...

For nearly 25 years, I've been in the practice of drawing nude models. Sometimes I forget that for m...

Art students and amateurs alike have been copying the works of masters for centuries. Some people th...

Recently I received a question by email that I think a lot of us have had at some point: Does it mat...