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Drawing The Figure With Boxes And Cylinders

But if you want your drawings to get to display shelf status, we gotta do our equivalent of throw out batches and butter research. No, it's

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Carolin Peters

Drawing The Torso Using the "Bean"

In this mini lesson I’ll show you how you can use the “bean” to capture the action of the torso. You’ll learn the four movements we can d...

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Carolin Peters

Gesture Drawing Do's and Don'ts

In this video you’ll learn the purpose of gestures. I’ll point out what artists tend to do wrong in the beginning, and what you should fo...

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Carolin Peters

To All My Courageous Artist Friends

Life is far from normal right now, and I'm sure I'm not the only one whose heart is heavy and filled with worry. If you've read any of ...

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3 Ways To Practice Gestures And Find Your Own Style

Gestures... Bane of your existence or most favorite thing in the world? For me, it's not like I hated them, I just didn't understand a) w...

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Why We Stop Practicing The Things We Love

But you know what's even worse? Letting yourself get duped into not doing the things you know you love (i.e. drawing, painting, learning new

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3 Ways To Draw Gestures And Find Your Own Style

Gestures... Bane of your existence or most favorite thing in the world? For me, it's not like I hated them, I just didn't understand a) wha

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How Figure Drawing Helps Your Art Work

When it come to cutlery I'm quite the snob. Give me a fork with tines too short or broad, and I'll lecture on how longer, more slender fo...

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Capturing Your Ideas In Your Drawings Part 2

When paint tubes turn into looming threats and then get transformed into heroic saviors, all within minutes, and all by merely changing a...

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Capturing Your Ideas In Your Drawings Part 1: Sketching vs. Composing

Do you have any "When I saw this painting I started to cry" stories?

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DRAWING SIMPLE SCENES IN PERSPECTIVE: A Step-by-step process

In this video you’ll learn a step-by-step process for how to draw any scene requiring simple perspective know-how (2 point perspective in...

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How to Practice Drawing From Imagination Part 4

In this video you’ll learn how to go through the entire process of drawing something from imagination. You’ll see me go through the follow...

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How to practice drawing from imagination Part 3

And boy, do I know this face well. I've made it plenty of times myself, and I get to see it every semester from my students, too. In both ca

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Sketchbook Relief For Stressful Times

Remember that feeling of being completely in tune with yourself? Yeah, I'm a bit hazy on it myself these days. But even if everything els...

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How To Practice Drawing From Imagination Part 2

In this video you’ll learn how to practice drawing from imagination, in particular, how to master drawing rounded/cylindrical forms, with...

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Why drawing is the perfect way to positively rewire your brain

I share psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson's insights on how to hardwire resilience into your nervous system by drawing more.

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Draw your way to a clam state of mind

An exercise for sketchbook lovers to calm down frazzled nerves.

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How to Practice Drawing From Imagination Part 1

But I got past that hurdle, and so can you. Wanna know how? By treasuring your love for drawing, by being curious about how to get better, a

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Get Killer Proportions Part 4

And we miss out on just as much drawing goodness (or improvement) if we keep our assumptions unchecked when we sit down to sketch.

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Get Killer Proportions Part 3

But are they to be trusted to set a strong foundation for your drawing? Are they the things that'll help you nail you drawings time and agai

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