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50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing
Traditional drawing is certainly way harder than digital and it is true that people are able to progress much faster digitally, but one should learn the traditional type of drawing and painting before starting digital drawing, since it often lays out the foundation for screen design.
This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you.
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Traditional Drawing Tutorials
Marilyn Portrait Tutorial
A truly fantastic drawing tutorial to learn how to draw a portrait of Marilyn Monroe with pencil. Each step of the portrait is perfectly well explained and commented. This tutorial is very detailed, and requires a lot of patience.
Portrait tutorial
This is a step by step tutorial on how to draw a realistic portrait. The artist assumes that you have a basic understanding of drawing and shading before attempting to draw a serious portrait. For this lesson he is drawing on 11″x14″ Fabriano Hotpressed Watercolor Paper. He is using Derwent Graphic Pencils ranging from 2H to 7B. For more information on any of the drawing tools that he mention in this tutorial, visit the drawing materials page.
How to draw lips
In this tutorial artist will explain how to draw the structure of the human lips.
How to Draw a Car
For this tutorial the artist will show the different steps he takes in drawing a realistic looking car. He chose to draw an american classic, the Corvette. This tutorial will apply to any car though because for the most part, they are all the same. The key to drawing a car that will pop off the page is having a good balance of lights, midtones, and darks along with clean, sharp edges. He is using Derwent Graphic Pencils and Fabriano Artistico Bright White Watercolor Paper, he is also using mechanical pencils for small details.
How to Draw Optimus Prime From Transformers
In this tutorial you will be learning how to draw one of the most popular of the Autobots, Optimus Prime. This drawing tutorial will show you in detail how to sketch, draw, and shade in this character that is popular around the world
Pet Portrait
A very good tutorial about how to draw pet portraits with colored pencils. Basic process and tips. Medium : Prismacolor Colored Pencils.
How to Draw a Ninja
This tutorial will show you how to draw a ninja step by step. This tutorial has easy to follow directions and steps making it that much more possible for anybody to tackle
Portrait tutorial
Artist is going to show several step photos along the way on this one. Artist chose this photo because of it’s RICH content, and it’s HIGH amount of TONAL VALUES, CONTRAST as well as it being a high resolution file, Finding just the right photo is half the battle to a good drawing. NEVER EVER work with a low quality photo.
Hair drawing tutorial
Drawing hair is definitely one of the trickiest part of almost every portrait. However, you will definitely like it if you acquire technique and skill in it. Therefore Artist introduce some easy and effective ways to draw wavy or straight hair or hair blowing in the wind. No matter how much chaotic the hair is, you’ll be able to draw it.
This tutorial explains two techniques of drawing hair on four portraits.
Eye-drawing tutorial by Sarah
A great and very detailed tutorial, to learn how to draw an eye in 30 steps
How to Draw a Realistic Eye
Artist made this tutorial to show the different steps that he take in drawing a realistic eye.
How to Draw a mouth and teeth
Artist made this tutorial to show the different steps that he take in drawing a realistic mouth, lips, and teeth.
TRADITIONAL SKETCH RENDERING
At most design schools they teach you how to use a single wooden pencil to create an entire rendering, sometimes referred to as a “Prisma-rendering” due to the type of pencil usually used (Prismacolor wood pencils). These are fast and very pretty looking techniques, and they are fairly easy to master. This will be more of a walkthrough then a tutorial in the sense that artist won’t describe every pen stroke, more the basic steps and thoughts behind. Ok, let’s go!
Drawing Hands and Feet
Some useful explainations and tips about how to draw hands and feet.
Drawing a Rose
An excellent tutorial offered by Rachel, to learn how to draw a pink rose.
A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.
Create a highly detailed sugar skull illustration by following this expert tutorial, with details on the process from sketch to final digital design.
Hair Amanda Tapping
A step by step drawing showing amazing hair on a portrait of actress Amanda Tapping. The result is impressive realism. A must see!
From Sketch to Vector Illustration
Create inspiring digital creations from hand drawn sketch using these helpful tips.
Manga Making Tutorial
In this tutorial artist will show you the process of creating a complete Manga comic strip using traditional tools.
How to draw a fashion figure
In this video tutorial you will learn how to use existing reference photo to trace a fashion inspired sketch.
The Dragon Tutorial
In this great dragon inspired tutorial artist will teach you some techniques and useful tips, you can also use this techniques in you other fantasy realted drawings.
Leather Wings
In this tutorial you can get ideas and techniques for drawing realistic wings stracture, Artist focuses at drawing wings.
Pencil Sketching by Max MaxBert Bertuzzi
very comprehensive theoritical tutorial, this article will increase knowledge and power of your drawing skill
Drawing Hair in Pencil
Some very useful tips for you on how to create extremely inspiring and realistic drawing hair in pencil work
Drawing Hands
Follow these simple and easy tips to avoid the difficulty of recreation of hands in pencil drawing and to learn some great tips and techniques of drawing hands.
Clothing Tutorial
An excellent roundup with plenty of tips and clothing tutorials. So, dress your characters in the best way by practicing these tips.
Comic Story Step by Step
If you are looking for a comic story guideline, here is a perfect step by step guide for you that will guide you starting with sketching and moving on through the inking and digital processes.
How to draw Marlon Brando step by step
It is now time to show you “how to draw Marlon Brando step by step” All the steps and instructions are laid out in the simplest format possible to help make this tutorial a breeze.
Face drawing: the heroic male
In this tutorial we’ll draw a character face of a hero-like character. In the process we’ll review an optimal placement of the facial features and the best ways to emphasize the features of the face that will make our character look manly and heroic.
Evil skull drawing
Looking for a terrifying evil skull drawing tutorial? Just follow the steps and you should be able to walk away with a scary skull to use in your scary projects (whatever they might be).
Let’s start with the evil skull drawing tutorial!
How to draw a female anime Dark Angel
The video demonstrates how to quickly create an efficient concept design from concept idea into visual. How to put rough idea onto the paper sketch and create fantasy or sci-fi character concept art online lesson for comics cartoon illustration, manga, and anime.
Lone Wolf Pencil Drawing
Here is a new miniature speed pencil drawing. Artist wanted to make this one different from my other ones. He combined two drawings in one to make a single image. The sunset and the single wolf. It gives the final image a different look and feeling.
How I making manga part 2
A step by step comprehensive and detailed tutorial about making manga.
Graphite Portrait
This tutorial explains all steps to create a portrait of Zinedine Zidane in graphite pencil. Time to complete: 10 hours.
Dance of Spring Tutorial
A step by step detailed tutorial that will help you with your Colored pencil.
Traditional Drawing Tips & Techniques
How to Draw what you See: Techniques and Tips to Improve your Drawing Skills
This article contains step-by-step images of the process Artist uses to create realistic looking drawings, as well as tips he have picked up over the years which anyone can use to improve their drawing skills.
Shading and Blending
This brilliant tutorial is all about shading and blendng, so let start and get lot of tips and amazing techniques.
Tips for drawing hands
In this tutorial Artist will include many tips about drawing hands he has picked up which are useful for getting better at drawing hands, including foreshortening, nails, and finger shapes.
Circulism Technique
Circulism is a very interesting technique to create skin texture with pencil. With this great tutorial, learn how to acheive a realistic skin texture with circulism.
3 Dimensional Drawing Techniques
To learn the basics of shape, perspective and shading in order to create depth in your work.
9 Steps to Creating Better Compositions
Great compositions don’t just happen by accident. They take planning, patience, and a knowledge of all the visual elements at your disposal. The great thing is, no matter how much or how little talent you have, you’ll always be able to improve your art by sketching out a good composition before you begin.
Drawing clothes techniques
A less general point that the portrait seems to pose few problems is the representation of clothing. In this tutorial, clothing can be summarized in two points: the folds and textures.
Editing Drawings
Editing Drawings by Cataclysm-X offers valuable tips for bringing out the best in your traditional drawings after they have lost their depth and luster due to scanning.I am sure this technique will help many traditional artists in the presentation of their work.
Sketching Tips and techniques
Learn interesting tips and techniques of sketching art and learn how you can focus on creating a great looking character with the help of these tips.
Detailed Hair
This article contains high quality tutorials that will guide you how to create highly realistic and inspiring hair on your subjects.
Hair Perspective & Lighting Tutorial
A very helpful and step by step comprehensive and detailed tutorial about Hair Perspective & Lighting
Portraiture lesson
To study draw a portrait using the ‘inside-out’ method.
Proportions
Proportions in any drawing assignment hold great value; therefore we have come up with these five most helpful techniques that will help you getting grips with proportions in your drawings.
How to Draw Caricatures: The 5 Shapes
This is a great collection of tips and techniques you can use to draw caricatures and learn the basic theory and 5 shapes of caricature design.
How to Draw Caricatures: Head Shapes
Head shape is the most important part of a caricature and in this tutorial you will learn great techniques about it.
Aquil Akhter is a web graphic designer and has been working in this field for 8 years. He also runs the blog webdesigncore.com, which focuses on free web resources and inspiration for designers and developers.
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September 8th, 2009 5:24 amVery nice list!
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September 8th, 2009 5:27 amI was really looking for these tutorials. Great collection. Thanks a lot
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December 6th, 2009 6:01 pmSunil this is carlos are you ok from miami
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September 8th, 2009 5:36 amMost of these tutorials are just bulls***. And I would really petition somewhere that they are banned. They don’t show you how to draw, they just show you how to render and kitschy image with a pencil. And these techniques just misinform an enthusiast beginner. Bad, bad SM! Tutorials should focus on construction, observation, relativity etc… not effects. The thing is, an artist will never render hair, lips or eyes as shown above, because it’s just n00b-ish.
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April 21st, 2010 5:23 ami think youre just a piece of shit. nice use of big words there duche bag. if they didnt help, then they didnt help you, no need to bad mouth them. oh, and by the way, saying “n00b” and hyphenating it with “ish” after it, makes you sound unprofessional, and like a stupid fuck.
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May 16th, 2010 6:57 pmWell, you don’t sound too intelligent yourself mister. “N00b-ish” sounds better than “dumb fuck” anyday.
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September 8th, 2009 5:50 amIf you have enough talent, these tuts will just give you some help…
But If you don’t have any talent, they won;t help you a bit at all…
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September 8th, 2009 6:02 amI agree with lx!
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September 8th, 2009 6:18 amTip for people who really want to get into drawing, and develop a style that is original, unique and accomplished: go to life drawing lessons, and go to them frequently – with an open mind and a willingness to put a lot of hours in.
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September 8th, 2009 6:32 amexcelent post !!!!
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September 8th, 2009 6:37 amawesome post.. thank you
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September 8th, 2009 6:42 amum…this is the most useful and amazing list ever put together by smashing. blown away and thank you!!
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September 8th, 2009 6:47 amThese are amazing. Thanks for the great post
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September 8th, 2009 6:52 amhaha… I was looking for some dragons to create a tatoo… very inspiring… thanks!!!
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September 8th, 2009 7:56 amI see some negative as well as positive comments on the post. In learning to draw what helped me the most was a bit of guidance from an art teacher and LOTS of practice. My favorite way to draw is to just sit and observe and sketch the object in view and focus on what I’m seeing more than what I’m putting onto the paper. I believe it is important to focus on the contour of the object, the area it fills in space, etc. in the beginning and hold off on trying to create features.
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September 8th, 2009 8:02 amI agree with Joshua – nothing beats drawing how you see it! The problem with tutorials such as these can be that you are in effect copying another artists style, not drawing it how you see it. Don’t get me wrong, some helpful tips there but remember, it’s your uniqueness that makes you great!!!
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September 8th, 2009 8:08 amWhat a coincidence, I just bought a sketch pad the other day with the intention to start drawing again. I’m sure these tuts will be of great use :]
Is there any chance of getting some Wacom tuts as well?
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September 8th, 2009 8:13 amEvery day I check smashing and you guys have exactly something I’ve been looking for. Awesome, thanks again sm.
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September 8th, 2009 8:35 amI have been drawing for over 25 years, and I quickly realized the best way to learn to draw is just do it. I think tutorials like these are useful after you have established your style and methods. You don’t want to compromise you unique style and how you see the world.
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September 8th, 2009 8:50 amWonderful collection of traditional rendering techniques. Thanks to the smashing team. You are just too good.
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September 8th, 2009 8:56 amGreat list SM, just what I needed right now.
To all you other artists commenting that this doesn’t help: You’re being ridiculous. You could say the same thing about every single photoshop tutorial on this site. I’m walking through drawing tutorials because I don’t know how to draw well. Once I learn how to appropriately render hair (or whatever) then I can start applying my own style.
In my opinion these tutorials are far from useless.
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September 8th, 2009 9:37 amGreat, great, GREAT! I’ve been looking to improve my drawing skills, this looks like it will be of great guidance. Cheers SM.
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September 8th, 2009 10:08 amTks!
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September 8th, 2009 10:18 amI agree that these tutorials are largely useless. They all start off with a near perfect render outline. Anyone who really wants to learn to draw *can’t do a perfect render*. None of these tutorials even begin to explain how to measure and triangulate positions to lay out proper proportions. “Circles and sausages?” don’t make me laugh! Sure shapes are important if they are the right shapes.
These tutorials will turn off beginners to drawing, and only feed the “I have no talent” mentality. Drawing is a process, not a talent.
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September 8th, 2009 11:08 amI can’t wait to start my drawing lessons with a great instructor and these tuts just made me wanna draw even more. I have bookmarked to come back back over and over. Thanks
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September 8th, 2009 11:45 amRocking collection, thanks for another great list, keep up the good post.
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September 8th, 2009 12:01 pmI worked at Universal Studios Orlando Fl, doing caricatures…. and i remember spending hours drawing, now in this digital era i gotta confess that i become very lazy. Now spending more than a couple hours doing something its too much…
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September 8th, 2009 12:07 pmAgree with some posters. These tutorials are disappointing and will be of limited use – following these tutorials will give you some sort of quick-fix ‘hacked’ result, but I’m not sure in what way this could ever be helpful. When I was 20 I thought I could draw pretty well, then I went to art college – and learned how to draw properly from those who really knew. Want a good drawing for a project? Hire someone who can draw. Want to learn how to draw yourself? Get a sketchbook and start drawing people, hands, feet, still lifes, a pile of chairs (for how things sit in space, form etc) – REAL stuff. Draw every day. Then draw some more. You might find you have a talent, you might not – but doing it that way will be far more rewarding.
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September 8th, 2009 12:10 pmI have to agree to Joshua, TheDude, lx and other…I don’t see ANY tutorial showing you how to draw from NATURE and not trace over a photo. Sorry, useless.
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September 8th, 2009 12:35 pmSMASHING SKETCHING, I love Circulism, pencil is empty now :) nice result.
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September 8th, 2009 1:12 pmI see that smashing magazine becoming more and more selfish everyday. I was a huge fan of this site, but lately my visits drop to once in 2 weeks or so.
I do NOT have a blog or website but SM removed “link dropping” now i see that they also remved links from people names.
this is just pity. You ask people to comment but no link even not their very own websites lol
Yeah there will be lots of spammers but just spend some time to edit comments
is that so hard ?????????????????????????????????????????
i think thats the main reason that SMs traffic is going down every single day.
but to be honest you guys deserve this.
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September 8th, 2009 2:18 pmInteresting how you address the traffic comment, and not all the ones calling this a useless article. There is no way in hell a beginner would be able to get step 1 in any of those examples without first knowing the very basics.
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September 8th, 2009 4:50 pmThe only thing that bothers me is that I can’t draw unless I’m really in the mood. How do people force themselves to get into that drawing mood. Is there something I need to do to be able to draw at anytime I want. Inspiration is always around but I just don’t draw as good unless I’m really in the mood.
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September 8th, 2009 5:01 pminteresting… i like it
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September 8th, 2009 5:18 pmAWESOME collection of stuff here. Thanks for everything, again!
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September 8th, 2009 5:57 pmThey don’t really look like the kinds of things that teach you how to draw but rather copy someone else’s style or image.
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September 8th, 2009 6:52 pmGreat compilation but nevertheless, some are really poor ones. Especially the anime hair somethin’ somethin.
Now I don’t have to search the web.
But i could’ve been better for newbies if the others were presented as techniques not tutorials that you can’t do anything with besides the subject. :)
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September 8th, 2009 6:54 pmA lot of good tuts, very Impressive and informative.
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September 8th, 2009 7:04 pmIf a menu was what it took to make your site nice, then I guess a lot of these sites would rank well. My problem was that except for Full Cream Milk, none of the sites were of any value in terms of accessibility.
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September 8th, 2009 7:33 pmNice post! very useful.
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September 8th, 2009 10:21 pmGreat post! will be useful for sure
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September 8th, 2009 10:47 pmWow awesome post!
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September 8th, 2009 11:07 pmWow, this is just amazing hun! I love drawing with pencils but I’ve never known how to do horsey shading! But this really inspires me, I hope I get some free time soon to try it out! Brilliant job hun! Thank you so much for making this tutorial !!!
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September 8th, 2009 11:26 pmExtremly nice!!!
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September 9th, 2009 12:51 amExcellent post! Thanks!
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September 9th, 2009 1:04 amDrawing isn’t tracing!
Traditional drawing is about volumes, light, movement.
Most of the “tutorials” shown here are like Photoshop’s pen tool used IRL… and that’s not drawing at all.
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September 9th, 2009 1:29 amSome of those tutorials are useless – few steps without good sketch, just outlines. In my opinion best drawing tutorials are ANDREW LOOMIS books. Some of those books are here: http://fineart.sk/
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September 9th, 2009 1:49 amNice collection, showing the best drawing tutorials on the net!
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September 9th, 2009 2:35 amI have to agree with the posters who took great delight that this article doesn’t show the REAL basics, however, as somebody who is married to an art teacher I can see many advantages to this article. The most important one is … take your time and try. The examples shown are varied and include many things that my wife teaches. You have to start somewhere.
I’ll be the first to admit that not all of these articles interest me, but I do not give SM a hard time because I disagree. The beauty of the internet is … I am just a click away from looking at something else. I suggest you naysayers try that. If you don’t like it … leave.
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September 9th, 2009 2:41 amHmmmm the best tutorial any artist can follow is to get out there and draw what they see, go to a life drawing class, or use a mirror. Develop their own style, not copy someone elses.
The above tutorials will teach you to be them, not yourself.
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September 9th, 2009 4:15 amFantastic Resources! thanks for putting it together!
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September 9th, 2009 4:41 amThanks these look really useful, I do a bit of drawing and ullustration in my work as a webdesigner. If you have time I would advise anyone to do a life drawing class, at Uni I did a week of it and went from awful cartoon drawings to realistic sketches, really valuable!
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September 9th, 2009 4:42 amWow… excellent compilation, really excellent. =)
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September 9th, 2009 4:55 amThank you, SM, for this and all your tutorials and tips that make the creative more accessible for everyone. For the artists that see no use in this collection of web articles, you should realize it’s not intended for you. Until I met my husband, who paints in oils, I thought a person was either born a da Vinci or should just give up any artistic aspirations. He’s helped change the way I “see” the world in ways that had never occurred to non-artistic me.
Saying “just draw what you see” doesn’t work for the rest of us that don’t naturally have your talent, your gift, your vision. Having someone break down the mechanics, step through the parts in an over-simplified way, gives me a greater appreciation that it requires hard work to harness even superior talent. Trying my hand at these tips and tricks teaches me to view other’s work by going beyond a simple gut reaction of “I like it” or “I don’t like it” and ask questions I never knew to ask before like, “why did they choose to shade with that particular technique?”
I don’t expect nor desire to draw a piece of art, but it gives me personal pleasure that I can now produce a drawing that looks like it was done by someone older than 12.
So all you artists, cut Smashing Magazine some slack for occasionally neglecting you in favor of teaching the rest of us less-gifted in ways to greater appreciate your efforts.
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September 9th, 2009 5:28 amvery very useful collection, thx
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September 9th, 2009 10:59 amTschai said exactly what I was about to post. I think these would be great for me to study, but a LOT of designers have no artistic ability at all. Just like a lot of artists have no design ability. Good thing I’ve always been good at both.
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September 9th, 2009 1:14 pmRE: Terry and bernadette:
“Saying “just draw what you see” doesn’t work for the rest of us” was actually my point (and others). “Step one” in every single tutorial above is an example of what a beginner **can’t yet do**.
“first start with a perfectly rendered and proportioned sketch” is not step one. For a beginner, that’s the goal.
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September 9th, 2009 2:36 pmHere is another tutorial about drawing in PS. Hope it can help……..
http://faisal11vcv.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/make-vampiric-hand-for-webpage/
and,
http://faisal11vcv.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/vector-graphics-with-photoshop/ - 61
September 9th, 2009 10:21 pmgreat article! nice post!
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September 10th, 2009 12:13 amnice article. Keep them coming.
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September 10th, 2009 12:51 amawesome work, thanks :)
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September 10th, 2009 4:04 amreally love that one! Eventhough I always visit to SM whenever I am on linem Idon’t used to comment about sth. But This is one really have to say “Oh really thanks to you”.
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September 10th, 2009 12:50 pmThese tutorials are great and LX is a moron for thinking that this doesn’t help at all.Talent is one thing being mediocre is another.
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September 10th, 2009 3:39 pmIf you want to learn how to draw the human body then this site is a must see Structure of Man
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September 10th, 2009 10:23 pmHere is a tutorial about drawing human face in photoshop. You should see this Human Face Drawing
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September 10th, 2009 11:23 pmYou can find on this website two tutorials (in french) :
portrait : http://tutoriel.graphit-art.com/portrait/
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September 11th, 2009 5:41 amin my opinion the most useful tutorial ever :-)
thanks a lot for this
cheers
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September 11th, 2009 6:38 amgreat tutorial its awesome thanks dude .. keep them coming
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September 11th, 2009 12:01 pmVery detailed list of tutorials for those of us with artistic talent. The outcomes are exceptional. Nice job for compiling these.
That being said, I think some of the posters have hit the nail on the head. These tutorials start too far ahead, assuming you have basic drawing technique down. SM does a wonderful job with balancing beginner and advanced content, so I think it would be appropriate to have another post with the fundamentals. I would really like to see tutorials on shading and basic perception of form and style,as well as different aspects of developing personal style with drawing.
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September 12th, 2009 7:26 pmHi guys,
good list of aides for all level of artists. i’ve been looking for such a list an compiling some of my own. i’ve had to go to about, squidoo, and anything basically found from page 1 of google to well after page 20 onwards. i’ve even had to be very precise with my search queries from drawing to how to draw hand, mouth, portaits, clothes, fashion poses, etc. you guys even have some links from deviant art (had to go there to find some lessons as well as some perzonalized stock photos). i haven’t read all of the comments but from a quick skim i saw some comments mentioning that it would be helpful if smashing had a beginner section for non artists…which i agree, but i bet that if i search this site i can find something like that, which is more suitable for people posing that option. i’m not a novice, but before i start a project i like to research and work on my fundies because although i can draw lifelike, i always have to practise, and there are just some things that i can fake draw and get away with but i don’t draw well. :) i think you guys covered a lot of fundamentals as well as some tutorials that just jump right in assuming that people can do this or that. it doesn’t hurt anyone to try. i’ll be working on one a couple of the hair tutorials because people have all different kind of techniques and shortcuts on how to do hair, as well as the eye tutorials, and i want to have some go to’s in my head.
thanks again. i’ve checked out a lot of the articles on this website (the one’s that interest me) and believe it or not i’ve always reached out to the websites of interest and have become a devoted follower of some of the artists.
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September 13th, 2009 2:14 amYeah, I saw a few helpful tutorials but the majority would be pretty much useless unless you’ve already got good control of your medium (in this case, it looks like it’s mostly oriented towards drawing in pencil?) — because, like a few people already stated, you don’t start out learning to draw like this. It’s not a question of artists sniping at things that weren’t intended for them. The topics addressed by most of these tutorials aren’t the fundamentals. You get to them later. But first you have to understand how to even look at something, and that’s hardly addressed here.
(Also, I honestly don’t think most of these tutorials will be all that helpful in developing one’s own style, but anyway…)
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September 13th, 2009 12:40 pmI agree with lx and others. Most of these aren’t about proper drawing, but merely skin-deep guides on how to apply pencil to paper and create something pretty. The second one (portait of dark-haired female), is really bad: No one with proper drawing skills would draw something from top-to-bottom like that!
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September 13th, 2009 4:02 pmI wonder how many people in here dissing the article can draw real good themselves.
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September 14th, 2009 12:41 amShame … Art by recipes … This Century Way of Life.
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September 14th, 2009 8:11 amgenial recopilacion, muchas gracias por el material
excelente fuente de conocimineto como siempre.
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September 14th, 2009 2:40 pmThese tutorials are very helpful, especially for continuing development. The idea isn’t to copy the style of the artist but to analyze techniques and give them a try yourself. They’re there to inspire. If you’re looking for basic fundamentals, find a copy of Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and do the exercises.
And don’t fool yourself into the idea that you need talent or some god given gifts to become an artist when all you need is interest. Interest enough to put in the long hours to figure out how it’s done, to patiently learn a craft and master it.
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September 15th, 2009 3:00 pmThis compilation is completely useless for a beginner like me.
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September 20th, 2009 6:20 pmWell gee, sure would be nice if the “artists” that are ranting and kicking their feet in the air about the lack of basics being taught here would actually POINT US to somewhere where these basics are being taught. So show us a tutorial where your basics are taught then… or otherwise just accept that a lot of people who make fantastic portraits and still lifes do so by slapping a grid on a photograph and calling it a day :) Either deliver, or keep it to yourself next time.
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September 21st, 2009 6:59 pmAndrew Loomis is a good reference to learn how to do tradition drawing. Simple realistic and straightforward techniques. His books are out of print long time ago but i’m sure you can find some of his teachings on the web. I might be able to find some references or point you to the right direction if interested. Let me know.
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October 6th, 2009 10:16 pmDefinitely a mixed bag of links. Some good gems hidden among them. I’ll second the notion that Andrew Loomis is the best out there in teaching and he’s impossible to find. I printed out a version of his Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth and constantly refer back to it. Best place to find his books are as torrents. I’d say go buy them, but they all cost at least $100 each on Amazon due to their collector item status.
For those interested in figure drawing, Glen Vilppu’s DVD’s are the best out there. Also, I’d check out the Conceptart.org forums for some of the best art on the interwebs.I just wrote a tutorial on how to draw gnarled, complex trees for anyone interested.
Of course, the real trick is never set the pencil down and in five short years you’re a master (or at the very least partially competent)
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October 12th, 2009 3:35 amlove it! thanks
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November 2nd, 2009 12:22 amHi everyone,
I do agree with some comments, NOT all.
You are not BORN An ARTIST, you develop
your skills that YOU HAVE LEARNED over
time!!!!!!!My EMPHASIS here is to let the viewer know,
that although you should definitely be practising
your drawing skill everyday that you get the chance,
there are TECHNIQUES to drawing that make the
drawing more APPEALING.These techniques are posted above by Smashing
Magazine for anyone interested in learning those
TECHNIQUES!!!!So STOP YOUR USELESS BANTER and get on
with your life, PLEASE.Best Regards to Smashing Magazine
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January 2nd, 2010 12:13 amI’ve just started studying traditional drawing (one of my new year’s resolutions), and seeing the list of tutorials shown on this post, these are great if you’re on the intermediate or advance level.
To anyone who really wants to learn traditional drawing, I highly recommend this website:
http://www.drawspace.com/ (but you need to register first)They offer free lessons, from beginner (learning to see, symmetry, shading, light and shadow, etc) to advance level. :)
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April 1st, 2010 6:07 amThanx I’ll take a look.
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February 16th, 2010 1:58 amthanks a lot for these amazing tutorials. they are really halpfull :D
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February 16th, 2010 11:08 amI love it! be sure to check out the
Top 10 Ways to Become a Better Artist - 89
February 19th, 2010 2:27 amWhat a great collection of drawing lessons. Want to work through them all.
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February 25th, 2010 2:07 pmI disagree, I think digital art is way harder than traditional art because of the eye hand coordination part.
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February 25th, 2010 10:20 pm很好的东西!感谢分享!
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March 2nd, 2010 6:55 amThis is a worthy collection of drawing tutorials that offer some great advice to draw many different things in the art world, I like the dragon drawing and the evil skull drawing best
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March 3rd, 2010 11:44 pmawesome collection
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March 15th, 2010 8:52 amWONDERFULL TUTRORIALS …..GREAT JOB….. THANK YOU SO MUCH
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March 19th, 2010 10:38 amThank you for the tutorials, they’ve helped me a lot ^_^
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April 1st, 2010 5:50 amGreetings from Argentina!
Thank you so much. I love these tutorials, especially the portrait of the dog.
I’m studiying many ways of painting animals from the web and some books .
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July 9th, 2010 1:28 pmNo puedo decir lo que siento porque ya de todo se dijo.
Solo mi Humilde opinion: siempre habra alguien mas talentoso que nosotros… - 98
July 18th, 2010 1:25 amnice very helpful
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July 30th, 2010 5:10 amExcelent … Thx : )
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Very nice tutorial collection!
Will try some of them ^-^