Have you ever felt like you are wearing a blindfold when you begin to draw, as though something is blocking your vision. You try to draw but what you see in your mind doesn’t come out of your hand and onto your paper. It feels like there’s a miscommunication going on somewhere between your eyes […]

These drawings represent the progress of students drawing skills while studying the ‘Complete Drawing and Painting Certificate Course’ via internet correspondence. You will notice on the left side that people enter the course at various levels of drawing ability, but everyone achieves a dramatic improvement as seen on the right side. Every person here had […]

Download this article as a PDF file and share it with your friends! We often hear people say (about an artist) when they admire a great realism drawing, “Oh he’s definitely got the Artist’s Eye” but what is The Artist’s Eye and how can you can get it? It’s true, you do need to have […]

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 […]

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 […]

Here’s your second question (in a series of five). You go to the kitchen and there’s a tasty looking chocolate cake on the table. You have eight(!) hungry kids who all want a piece. What would you do next? (a) Cut the cake so there are eight evenly size pieces. (b) Just chop out slices […]