Rotate 3D models inside your browser or on your mobile. Choose from an extensive library of 3D models of props, anatomy, and primitive and manipulated forms with varied proportions unique to Practice Drawing This. Rotate the objects, move them around, and draw them. Imagine what they look like rotated, and then verify. Always have something to draw. Check it out
Timed Drawing
This is for anyone who wants to improve their drawing skills and build their visual library. Never be without photo reference to draw from again. Hundreds of images are ready to be drawn and chosen for you automatically. You determine the drawing intervals: short intervals for gesture drawings or longer intervals for more finished pieces. If you want to draw something specific, there are many categories to choose from. Check it out
Morning Sketches APP
This is for anyone who wants to improve their drawing skills and build their visual library. Practice drawing every day. Never be without a reference image to draw from. Hundreds of images are ready to be drawn. There is no need to choose an image; a sophisticated scheduler chooses one for you. Start the day with a drawing warm-up to improve pen(cil) control.
Practice drawing 3D models designed for artists. Practice drawing gestures and breaking down a reference to simplified forms. Master drawing objects rotated from imagination. Check it out
Our Discord Server
Connect with fellow artists, share your latest work, exchange feedback, share and discover other online art education resources, and grow together. Check it out
FREE Online Drawing Course!
This free course helps you build real drawing skills through quick, fun exercises that fit into even the busiest schedule. Each activity has levels from beginner to pro, so you can improve no matter where you start.
All you need is a small sketchbook, a pen, and your phone. With exercises you can do in just a few minutes, you’ll learn to draw with confidence — anywhere, anytime, and at your own pace. Check it out
When we set out to learn to draw realistically, we need to “unlearn” that so that we can see the abstract shapes in front of us and copy them to our paper, so the same scene magically re-appears.
The advantages of using lots of different drawing tools.Change up your art materials and notice how they make you look at the world differently. Then, return to your preferred medium and notice how it is now informed by your experiences with the other material.
Clouds, trees, dragons. They do not have a specific way they should look; you can vary a lot, and the result will still look good, which makes it fun to draw them.
I make coffee, sit at the desk and start drawing. I take a reference image and draw it several times, once from observation to understand it, and then several times in a more cartoon style as I start to own it.
Time is our most precious resource!When doing something, instead of defining the end result, we can also decide how much time we’ll spend on it and let the output be the output.
We do a lot. We just think we don't. We define “drawing” as “doing something,” and sometimes life gets in the way, and we do lots of other things, but we don’t draw a lot, so we feel we haven’t done anything.
I’d like to involve you in deciding what to work on next for the “Practice Drawing This” website. I’m also interested in trying something new that Joel Spolski had described in a blog post a while back.
You get better at something by observing how others do it, trying it yourself, taking a step back, and coolly analyzing the result. Devise a practice plan to improve and set that in motion, keeping it light and fun.
So it is with art breaks. If you have to stop drawing for a short while for whatever reason, you can pick it up again later and return to the level of skill you had before in a few days.
The internet sparks our Fear Of Missing Out. It tempts us to keep searching for better, never satisfied. We’d be a lot happier if we stopped searching and started enjoying what we already had.
If you do not listen to me, will you listen to him?When I discovered the videos where you see Kim Jung Gi draw live, I was in awe, just like many other people were. How could you draw like that from imagination without even an under-drawing? It blew my mind.
Before the nineteenth century, there wasn’t even such a thing as Art. People who made paintings or sculptures were craftsmen. They were organized in guilds where masters taught apprentices the skills required to perform those crafts.
I have a confession to make. I program too much and draw too little. Programming is addictive for me. But the activities are not unrelated. I program tools that help me practice drawing better.
Just from being on the Discord server!You design your own curriculum! You have your own ideas about what you want to achieve, what exercises you need to do, and you mostly go online to look for information, tips, tutorials, but it is all in service of fitting in to the curriculum you are designing for yourself.
Will our work last over time?We have an urge to survive, to become immortal, and art has that promise. We remember a selection of works made in the past for various reasons: they were made from sturdy materials, still resonate with us, or teach us how to do things. We remember them for that, and they make the creator immortal. The artist left something lasting on this planet.
