Drawing is hard. Even after a lesson with a New Yorker cartoonist, I get spooked by the simplest drawing exercises. If you’re also easily scared off, but you want to get better, try these basic ...

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Draw what you see, not what you think what you see, is probably a recommendation that you've heard a lot if you're a beginner artist, but it can be harder than it might sound. It also raises questions ...

Sketching is a form of visual thinking that exercises the mind and body, and it’s easy to turn your tablet into a portable art studio. By J. D. Biersdorfer “Any one who can learn to write, can learn ...

ArtWorkout, currently the #1 "learn to draw" app on iPad, is quickly becoming one of the most talked-about apps to learn how to draw, relax, have fun, and connect with others. Built to make drawing ...

The app includes more than 2,500 step-by-step tutorials, most of which can be completed in 10 to 30 short actions that aim to keep the drawing process light and digestible.

Claire Watson Garcia knows the look. She has seen it for about 30 years. “They stop at the door, peer around, and say, ‘Is this the class for the utter, total, complete beginner ... ,’ and before they ...

The following excerpt was originally published in Natascha Meuser's Construction and Design Manual: Architecture Drawings (DOM Publishers). With our industry's technological advances, "the designing ...

If you’re someone, like me, who looks at the pictures in an article before reading the words, you might have been surprised this time to find a map and a page of signatures. Maybe you even said to ...