Free Art Lessons and Drawing 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 more than one hundred quality free art lessons 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 tutorials teaching how to draw portraits and sketch faces, how to paint landscapes and scenes both real and imaginary. ArtGraphica also features a number of online art books including drawing for beginners, and drawing for art students amongst others.
Owl charcoal/chalk
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.
Drawing and Sketching Art Videos / Lessons Home Study
Art Course - beginner, intermediate and Advanced lessons. Click here
for details
Master the Human Form
Learn in 3 simple steps how to easily make pencil drawings of the human figure, whether beginner or advanced. by Artist Todd Harris
Learn How to Draw and Paint
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's 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. A knowledge of anatomy, perspective and form can also prove essential to enhancing your art (whether from life or from a photo reference) and improve drawing from imagination.
Water Buffalo Anatomy - oil painting study, following visit from Paris Natural History Museum
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.
FREE Online ART BOOKS
Drawing & Painting Trees - Free Book
Learn how to draw and paint trees. ArtGraphica has been hard at work putting a free online version of Rex Vicat Cole's: The Artistic Anatomy of Trees...
Drawing For Beginners, Online Book
Beginners guide to drawing, from figures and portraits, to pets, animals and architecture. Teaches perspective, measuring with plumblines etc.. Drawing For Beginners...
Drawing for Art Students, Free Book
Drawing for art students is a great general guide for artist's of various abilities, to grow and improve their artistic skills. Drawing for Art Students...
Freehand Drawing - Free Art Book
Freehand drawing without rulers and mechanical aids provides a strong background in draughtsmanship. Book is suited to art teachers and students. Freehand Drawing...
Get experienced advice from classically trained industry professionals on how to draw clothes, hair, faces, eyes, mouths, hands... and See your art develop just like the masters.
Includes the ebook Master the Human Form by Todd Harris and the following 5 bonuses : The Art and Science of Drawing, Learn Portfolio Advice to Land an Exploding Career, Easy Steps to becoming a Masterful Artist, The American Drawing Book, Pen Drawing An Illustrated Treatise" Click for Details
ART SHOP
Art Canvas Reproduction
Quality giclee canvas reproductions are available - amazing quality at a great price. An inexpensive way to decorate your walls with some of your favourite masterpieces. Please see our online Art Shop.
The online
art shop offers secure online ordering to destinations all
around the world. We have a number of art related products
on offer from the Drawing and Wildlife Art Tutorial Guides, to fine art canvas prints from the Old Masters, alongside contemporary, modern
art canvas prints.
Be sure to also check out our Gallery,
where original artworks are occasionally offered direct from the artist.
10" by 8" Vine Charcoal. Rothschild Parc, Boulogne Billancourt.
Teaching Yourself Art
Self-Portrait Sketch
As a self-taught artist
myself, I have always been wary of those art guides that purport
to turn you into a Cezanne, Gogh or Monet in a day. Not only
do I think it important to become the artist you are to become
(not that emulation is a bad thing - copying old
masters has many benefits and is highly recommended), art is a path you have to dedicate
yourself to, and be prepared to work at. Whatever your style, being able to visualise in three dimensions is one of the key and most important skills for any artist to develop.
Many abysmal drawing efforts followed my earliest attemps in creating sickly looking stickmen, with
the odd success mixed in amongst frustration. I became a proficient
reader and maintained a high standard of discipline when it
came to drawing practice. My journey continues (and will forever continue to do so) 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.
