INTRODUCING the beautiful and ever amazing Lori! We became engaged in February of this year. We actually met 20 years ago in college. I was a senior and she was a…

ALL artists at one point in their life will use themselves as subjects for their creation. For this assignment we were asked to do three separate self portraits. The first…

LANDSCAPE drawing is quite relaxing and refreshing. The cool breeze, the sound of insects, birds and critters transport you into a place of complete nirvana. But that's not what happened…

TO draw complex shapes you have to see the simple shapes (circle, square/rectangle, cone) in them. For this assignment we were tasked with drawing 5 objects with unordinary shapes. I found…

I learned something very valuable recently through my "Basics of Drawing Class" that I'm almost embarrassed to admit and that is 1,2,3-Point Perspective. There is a focal point for every…

GRIDS are extremely handy when tackling tough drawing projects, more importantly, very large projects. If you see photos of crop drawings from the sky, the artist more than likely used a…

Cross Contour:  This was a really fun exercise. I approached this similar to "wire frames". You see the old school computer models of figures, shapes, etc. and I treated this…

I'M trying really hard to improve with every assignment. I also think one of the key ingredients to good work is putting the time in.  I took approximately 7 or so…

SHADING, value and color in a monochromatic piece can be a real challenge. I'm no expert by any means but the can drawing above is my attempt at translating the…