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Cornelia Urlass – Beginner to Award Winning Artist
See the stunning artwork by Cornelia Urlass from a beginner she is now an award winning artist
Karen Piper – Creating in Multiple Mediums
Karen Piper has a natural desire to use multiple artistic mediums. She creates beautiful artworks in a variety of different art styles from realism to expressive and contemporary, into children's picture book illustration and beyond. She is exploring with pastels,...
Character Illustration Course with Inks, watercolors and colored pencils
Have you ever dreamed of drawing and coloring in a nostalgic children’s picture book style? What if I told you it’s actually easier than you might think?
Book Illustration Process – Sweet Dreams Cuddleecat Kittens
Childrens book character illustrator Cindy Wider creates her Cuddleecats cute kittens using Derwent Inktense and Procolor.
Top 10 Tips To Help You Draw and Color More Often
10 Top Tips to help you draw more often
Meet Mrs Henrietta Quill The Hedgehog
Use pastel pencils to quickly and easily create blending, gradations and beautiful tones. You’ll also learn how to use the impressing technique.
Color-along Cupcake in Pastel Pencils
Use pastel pencils to quickly and easily create folds, cream icing and cake texture of red velvet cupcakes.
Woodland Animals With Florals Free Coloring-in Page
I just absolutely had to share this pretty 'Woodland Animals with Floral' drawing created by one of my course members. In this image (that was designed, drawn and colored by Colleen Cooke) there are 2 little birds and a secretive little deer (well hidden... look...
New Painting Course – Imaginary Play with the Cuddleecats
Effortlessly create large even areas of watercolor and gorgeous gradations in colored pencil on top.
Drawing From Imagination to Creation – in 3 steps
How does an artist create a totally original artwork from imagination to final final image? I’ll summarize the process for you in 3 simple steps so that you can do the same.
Draw Farmland Animals – Mini Guide
You can get the Draw Farmland Animals mini guide free when you subscribe to my blog. No experience is necessary and all you need is just 1 pencil and ordinary paper. I'll show you how to draw nine cute farmland animals in left and right-facing views using my easy...
Aleksey Kosarev – Imaginative Surrealistic Cityscapes and Environments
The imagination of Russian Artist Aleksey Kosarev is truly spectacular! Through his mesmerizing, expressive body of work, Aleksey transports us into other worlds and places that just don't exist in reality. His work is colourful, imaginative,...
You Can Learn To Draw in 60 Seconds!
Are you ready to draw better, more quickly, and confidently from memory and imagination or real life? I understand how you feel if you're frustrated at being stuck with your drawing. Even if you haven't tried to draw since you were a child because you lack the...
Denise Burns – A star in the making
Artist Denise Burns in her studio Denise Burns has a natural ability to design, compose and create beautiful artworks from the things we often don't notice in nature and man-made objects. From the complex mechanisms of a spectacular horse carousel to the tiny markings...
Lynn Nelson – From beginner to award winner in her 70’s
Artist Lynn Nelson in her studio Lynn Nelson is an absolute inspiration! She has learned to draw in her 70's from an absolute beginner just 5 years ago. After graduating from her beginner course her skills began to really grow rapidly from strength to strength....
Richard De Wolfe – Master of Nostalgic Fine Art
Meet Richard De Wolfe, one of the greatest living masters of Nostalgic art from our time. He has a unique gift for capturing that very special ingredient of nostalgia in his work. His art has an ability to capture our imagination and take us back to the warm...
Svitlana Holovchenko – Master Children’s Illustrator from Imagination
Svitlana Holovchenko transports us into her spectacular imaginary worlds through her breath-taking childrens book illustrations. Her characters are imbued with a special kind of vitality and lifeforce that entices us to learn more about them and to travel with...
Eason Ko – Whimsical Book Illustrator Young Master
Take a look at these gorgeous whimsical and happy children’s book illustrations that have been lovingly created by the multi-award winning and up-and-coming young master of children’s book illustration, Eason Ko.
Master Artist Paco Martin – Capturing The Beauty of Math in Coloured Pencils
Paco Martin is absolutely one of the greatest master artists of our time, creating realistic artworks in the medium of coloured pencil that mesmerise and fascinate us with their tantalising beauty. Paco has a Bachelor's degree in Forestry Engineering and a Master's...
Noah Nolywaika – beginner to selling his art in Alaska!
Learning to draw is a journey and everyone was a beginner once. Noah Nolywaika is a young professional artist inspired by the magnificent wilderness of the landscape, flora and fauna in Nenana Alaska. He was just 17 years of age when he first came to study the...
Deepti Mohile
Deepti Mohile has been on an exciting journey from learning to draw as an adult beginner, she has gone on to become a multi-award winning artist. Deepti now enjoys a beautiful new career as a pre-school teacher. Her artwork has a special vibrancy and energy to it,...
Susanne Norling – Art as a Form of Therapy
Susanne Norling is just as comfortable creating stunning realistic portraits as she is creating gorgeous imaginative children's book-style illustrations. From one image to another Susanne uses her newly-acquired skills to express her creativity through a vast variety...
Max Cuddleecat Wall of Fame!
We’ve had a celebration for the the launch of ‘Coloring for Happiness – Max Cuddleecat’. Here are some of the wonderful Max’s my students have created! Well done everybody!
Coloring for Happiness Launch Celebration
A new course from Cindy Wider! The celebrations will take place in the Cindy Wider’s Cuddleecat Family and Friends Facebook Group from Wednesday the 1st of July for 7 days!
A Stunning Pencil Portrait
Just a short time ago Robert was only just learning to draw with me in the Complete Online Drawing Course. Its always so exciting for me to see yet another student spread his wings and fly.
Teddy bear drawing with stitching and soft fluffy fur!
This cute Teddy Bear was created by Stephen Dodds, my mentored level 1 student using the construction drawing of Tallulah Ted.
Bruce S. Garrabrandt – Master Humorous Coloured Pencil Artist and Author
It's true, laughter is the best medicine. Bruce Garrabrandt's artworks have a very special way of immediately uplifting the soul. When we view Bruce's fabulous whimsical and comical artworks we can't help but smile. In an instant we're whisked away, transported into...
A Spectacular Snowy Landscape Drawing
This spectacular snowy landscape drawing was created by my student Noah Nolywaika. For the past year I have been carefully nurturing Noah’s natural ability to refine his skills. The development in Noah’s work is spectacular!
Next level shiny kettle shading
Two lovely new pencil shaded shiny silver kettles from the Complete Online Drawing Course!
Lots of Lovely Hay Shed Landscape Drawings
Check out this lovely collection of ‘Old Hay Shed’ drawings by DrawPj students studying the Complete Online Drawing Course. Awesome work! Well done.