Drawing and Shading Online Course – Now in Italian
We are now able to offer the ‘Draw In Your Pyjamas’ and ‘Shade In Your Pyjamas’ online art courses fully translated into italian.
The course is being run in conjunction with our wonderful official italian translator Alessandro Coraglia through ziorip.com.
So, italian friends, you can now learn to draw and paint from the comfort of both your own home and your own language 
Monique Miller blogs about her DrawPj art journey
Monique is currently working though the Portraiture unit of the Draw and Paint In Your Pyjamas art course, and shares her journey as an artist on her blog M. Miller Art, posting the instructor comments on her work, which may be interesting viewing and reading for anyone wondering how our instructors provide feedback to course participants.
So if you want to get an insight into Moniques progress pop over and visit her blog.
Well done Monique!
How to know when an artwork is finished
Over the years many course participants have asked us a question that goes like this…
“How do I know when my drawing/painting is finished?”
This is a good question!
Coming to the end of an artwork can almost be as scary as starting at the beginning. There’s always the fear that you could spoil or overwork the drawing or painting, and have to start all over again, or that you’ll never be able to figure out what’s not right.
Thankfully, as you become more and more experienced as an artist with well honed skills in your kit bag, that ‘knowing when to stop’ feeling gets easier.
Just don’t know when to stop working on your artwork? Read on…
Your Natural Gifts for Drawing Revealed
Did you know that the average healthy person is on a daily basis already using the skills needed for drawing realistically?
The exciting thing about learning to draw is that you already possess natural gifts that you can combine to form the whole skill needed for drawing. You probably haven’t even thought of them as gifts before, but they are at the foundation of your ability to draw.
The most wonderful thing is that you don’t have to learn anything new, you just have to be shown how to combine these natural gifts in the unique way necessary for drawing, and, by using some drawing methods handed down to us from the great master artists the whole process becomes easier to learn in a shorter period of time.
Your Natural Gift of Horizontal and Vertical Comparison
Lets test your first natural gift. Here’s your first question (in a series of five).
You walk into your living room and there is a painting hanging on the wall. The painting is hanging crookedly. What would you do next?
(a) Get a strong urge to straighten it, and then adjust the painting until it is straight.
(b) You’d notice it, but would be perfectly happy to leave it crooked.
(c) You wouldn’t notice.
