Learn How to Draw

Martin Stankewitz was born in 1954 and was educated in the arts from 1998, studying drawing and painting alongside lessons in landscape plein aire painting, and workshops featuring landscape and architecture. Martin also has a diploma in forestry, and founded the 'Edition Handdruck' in 1996. Stankewitz's exclusive charcoal lesson demonstrates the drawing of pine trees, with videos, showing the versatility of charcoal for drawing plein aire.

Gavin first picked up a pencil in 2003; his first efforts involved creating sickly looking stick-men, but those soon progressed to fully fledged portraits. Many experimental drawings and sketches later, he went on to create the ArtGraphica website, helping other artists in their personal development. In this study Gavin approaches the subject with a dynamic spontaneous technique to capture the emotion and flow of the landscape.

English artist Mike Sibley has an amazing talent for extreme realism with a pencil. These are two complimentary lessons which give some insight into how Mr. Sibley renders these tiny yet detailed masterpieces, primarily by examing the use of negative drawing.

Jim Fogarty is a friendly, self-taught English artist, who creates detailed pencil drawings, alongside beautiful custom guitar artwork. In this tutorial Jim presents a down to earth guide giving useful, practical drawing tips for all pencil artists.

American artist Marsha L. Robinett was born in Danville, Illinois in 1946 and started drawing portraits of her family when she was still at grade school. Marsha predominately uses carbon pencils with accents of charcoal and graphite to achieve her particular style and create the warmth and depths that is hard to achieve by graphite pencil alone. This golf club tutorial uses Wolff carbon pencils, a charcoal pencil and graphite pencils.

Barbara Benedetti Newton was born in Washington in the 1940's, and later went on to study under William Cumming amongst others. In the 1960's she began a professional career as a fashion illustration. After a 20 year haitus, Barbara returned to art full time in the 1990's. This colored pencil tutorial was executed on Rising Stonehenge paper and makes use of a grisaille.

Cathy Sheeter was born in 1979 growing up in a remote town in Eastern Oregon where she developed her love for the natural world and animals. Cathy started exhibiting her work in 2008 and became a member of the presitigious Society of Animal Artists. This demonstration shows the drawing of a dog on smooth Bristol Paper using a 7mm mechanical pencil.

Mark describes his work as 'windows on quiet places, on moments of reflection, on dreams - Times when, as Robert Henri said, 'we seem to see beyond the usual'. Mark skillfully combines charcoal and graphite, working at a very small size to create this atmospheric tutorial - Misty Moonrise.

Sandy Sandy holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Moore College of Art and also attended The Art Institute in Philadelphia. This simple sketch is carried out in six steps using a watercolor brush to complete the shading.

Diane Wright picked up her pencil in 2002, after a 20 year break. She is inspired by artists such as John Ruskin, which shows in her passion for drawing nature. This is a beginner's lesson on drawing rocks and how to create a three dimensional realism.

Stan was born Odessa, Ukraine and came to America at the age of six, devoting himself to the arts from moment he became a teenager. Stan studied at the Watts Atelier of the Arts in Encinitas, California. This lesson explores the planes of the nose to help picture things in three dimensions and in perspective.

Dan Schultz used compressed charcoal on Strathmore 400 series paper, first toning the sky with a chamois cloth before blocking in, and correct shapes and masses. Follow his step by step progress in this free drawing tutorial.