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#97 - Artists, Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone, but Not Too Much! Stay NEAR Your Comfort Zone

But do come out of your comfort zone if you do not want to become bored.

Find your “happy place,” your comfort zone, first. Find out what you can draw well, and go from there.

#96 - Drawing Portraits Using Online Sources For Reference

Another idea for using online reference for artists.

Most are full of character and formed from beautiful shapes, unconventional beauty. Truly a great source of reference to use while drawing.

#95 - Collaborate With Your Child - Use This Novel Method To Introduce Fun Into The Art Creation Process

This is a fun thing to do!

It’s special to do something together. Let them finish your drawings; you’ll love how it comes out.

#94 - Drawing Is Not Writing And This Has Consequences For How You Should Hold Your Pen Or Pencil While Drawing

There are different ways you can hold pens and pencils!

But drawing is not writing; drawing can benefit from holding a pen or pencil in other ways. Here are a few things to try:

#93 - A Website With All-Ages Appropriate Pose Reference For Artists To Use To Practice Drawing The Human Form

Another great online resource for artists.

Jookpubstock is a website with all-ages-appropriate pose reference images you can practice drawing from.

#92 - The Advantage You Have Over Rembrandt - What Woulld Rembrandt Have Done With All The Art Resources We Have At Our Disposal Today?

Advantage modern technology provide that we artists do not make enough use of.

And look at what we have! We can access almost any image ever created, all online, and study them.

#91 - A Free Online Drawing Class As An Alternative To Live Model Drawing Classes

An alternative to live model drawing classes.

An important reason to keep doing it is to remind yourself how different we all look. You develop mannerisms if you don’t draw from a model for a while. You draw every figure with the same nose, the same hands, et cetera. Drawing from changing live models reminds you how different we all are.

#90 - What We Can Learn From Studying The Illustrations By Heinrich Kley

Introducing a great course.

Marshall may be the best art teacher in the world right now. His course is worth checking out. He put his Bridgman course on YouTube for free! You can find the playlist here.

#89 - 3D Models You Can Use For For Reference For Practicing Drawing - Rotate Them, Draw Them From Observation Or Memory

Here are some example 3d models you can find on the Practice Drawing This website.

#88 - A Drawing Workout That Focuses On Negative Space To Make You Better At Drawing From Observation

Drawing negative space is about drawing what is outside objects, including the holes that let you see through them and into the background.

#87 - What Artists Can Learn From How Musicians Practice Their Music Instruments

How to learn from people who practice other crafts.

Interestingly, we artists are not trained to practice this way. We’re not taught to take one reference image and draw it over and over again.

#86 - A Free Workout That Helps You Practice Artistic Anatomy Through Public Domain Reference

Art academies often prepared plates for students to practice from back then. It’s a great idea; students don’t have to scramble for references.

#85 - Wax On, Wax Off For Artists - The One Drawing Exercise That Is My Swiss Army Knife For Practice Now

And here is what IS popular, even though it should not be.

Google Search Console tells me that the most popular pages on my website are a rotatable 3d cube model, a skull model, and a page where you can easily create things on perspective grids.

#84 - Artists Should Unlearn This Bad Habit - An Effective Way To Shut Down Your Inner Critic And Become A Better Artist

Be a happier artist and improve as an artist much more rapidly.

After drawing, don’t feel bad you made mistakes! They point you at something you can focus your attention on to improve.

#83 - Why A Teacher At Art Academy Taught Us This One Thing - Take A Step Back

One important way you can improve your art.

We’d be painting or drawing with charcoal. And we’d be close to the paper or canvas. And the teacher would walk by behind you and say, “take a step back.”

#82 - Why The Size Of Your Sketchbook Is Important For Both The Quality OF Your Art AND Your Creative Process

On the relative virtues of large and small sketchbooks.

When you go outside, it is a good idea to always have a sketchbook on you.

#81 - More Drawing Workouts - Sequences Of Drawing Exercises That Go Well Together

Two more drawing workouts.

In this article, I’d like to share two more drawing workouts! They are both fun and easy ones: drawing shapes from observation and memory.

#80 - Drawing Workouts - Sequences Of Drawing Exercises That Go Well Together

Here are one drawing workout.

I am creating “Drawing Workouts,”; a series of short drawing exercises that go well together in sequence.

#79 - They Say Becoming Better At Art Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint, But Not Even That Is True

A good way to look at your long-term art creation process.

Your art creation process should involve daily sessions of joy, relaxation, meditation, reflection.

#78 - Writing Can Be An Effective Activity To Help You Become A Better Visual Artist

Writing can help you become a better visual artist, too.

You can quickly try different designs by making lots of thumbnail design sketches. By doing that, you quickly work through ideas. You record these ideas on paper, and you can look at them, compare them, and come up with new or better ideas.

#77 - The BEST Drawing Exercise I Know, Number 1 (Gustave Dore)

This installment borrows a part of a drawing Gustave Doré made for Don Quixote. I’ve also created a YouTube Video.

#76 - A Great Drawing Exercise That Jogs Your Creative Muscles

This is a fun drawing exercise you can do with children, too.

Our brains are wired to see patterns. Look at clouds, and chances are you will start to see dogs and rabbits and faces in them.

#75 - Making Art That Pleases You Will Lead To Making Art That Audiences Admire

Creating things just for the likes and follows on social media is ultimately unfulfilling, and you end up making things that work for the algorithm rather than things that are good.

#74 - Make Your Drawing Exercises Harder To Do, And Regular Drawing Will Become Much Easier - A Way To Improve Fast As An Artist

Ironically, this makes drawing easier.

Trying to become better at something, try a much more difficult version of it, and then return to the original process later to see what it did for you.

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