Free Art Lessons and Commercial Art Tutorials
Learn how to draw, sketch and paint

Drawing, Sketching and Painting
(portrait art, landscape, wildlife... for artist's of all abilities)

Art is about learning to see and possessing the discipline for regular practice - no innate talent or art school is required even if all you can muster is sickly looking stickmen! This website features free art lessons (including guest art tutorials) and commercial art instruction video tutorial guides to develop art skills in a variety of mediums from graphite, oils, and watercolour through to charcoal, acrylics and ink, and from sketches to finished works of art. Inside you can find free art lessons teaching how to draw portraits and sketch faces, how to paint landscapes and scenes both real and imaginary.

To compliment the free art lessons, we have two great multimedia art video tutorial CD's for improving artistic skills, complete with art videos, animations and intricate step-by-step instructions, teaching the process of 'seeing', hence the ability to draw. Following from this excellent Drawing and Sketching Guide (aimed at artists of all abilities - beginner's can learn how to draw and paint, intermediate and slightly more advanced artists can learn tips and tricks to develop their artistic skills), we are pleased to also present our Wildlife Art Guide, Land, Sea and Air with detailed step-by-step tutorials and three hours of video covering nine unique animals in graphite, oils, pastel, acrylics and watercolour.

LEARN HOW TO DRAW AND PAINT

Commission a portrait by the artist.

"I have always been wary of those art guides that purport to turn you into a Cezanne, Gogh or Monet in a day." Artists are as diverse and varied as they come, not only in experience (or lack thereof), but style and attitude, yet many things are shared, from meditative time alone to a mutual love for aesthetics and the cathartic feelings that stem from purging our imaginations and desires onto a sheet of paper or canvas

The beauty of art is that it can be picked up at any age. If art looks magical to a beginner then that is probably because they never spent any real time painting or drawing since leaving school. The process of seeing can be mastered by all, and seeing is the key to drawing and sketching, and drawing/sketching the key to using any medium. Drawing largely amounts to measuring, coordinating the hand to interpret a representation seen by the eyes. The more accurate those measurements, the more like the subject that drawing will resemble (true, it can be easier said than done!). The basic skills learnt correctly can lead you towards your goals be it striving for photorealism, expressionism, impressionism or anything inbetween.

With the right art instruction and background reading, combined with astute observation anybody can develop as a proficient self-taught artist. This website is geared to developing and harnessing both the latent skills of beginners, and those with some experience behind them (whether self-taught or a student of art). Primarily the in-depth and structured art demonstrations and instructions are represented through the series of unique multimedia titles, combining video, animation, and photographs with careful and thorough descriptions of each stage. Also provided are a set of completely free art tutorials, and whilst not representative of the commercial products, they are written to a high standard and it is my intention that they serve as a means to develop, aid and instruct others interested in producing and creating art.

Teach yourself how to draw and paint

10" by 8" Vine Charcoal Skull Study.
Drawn on handmade paper.

As a self-taught artist, I have always been wary of art guides that purport to turn you into a Gogh or Monet in a day. It is important to become the artist you are to become (not that emulation is a bad thing - copying old masters has many benefits), art is a path you have to dedicate yourself to, and be prepared to work at. Stick figures represented the best of my 'talents' back in Spring of 2002. I became a proficient reader and maintained a high standard of discipline when it came to drawing practice. My journey continues and I've yet to fall into a niche, but evolution is the fun part to development and it would be a pleasure to help others along their evolutionary artistic adventures.