Drawing - Art Instruction For Beginners

Coloring with Crayons and Baby Oil?

Watch artist Alisa Burke demonstrate an interesting technique: using baby oil with crayons in a drawing. You can view more of Alisa’s videos on her youtube channel here.

Ten Oil Pastel Techniques for Beginners

Keeping It Loose! How to keep your pastel paintings loose and impressionistic

Fantastic tutorial by artist Susan Jenkins on painting an impressionist scene with pastels. Lots of great tips and advice! Enjoy! Visit Susan’s Youtube channel for more great videos! Visit her website here

Let go and Express Yourself with Charcoal!

This lesson will illustrate how you can take a complicated cityscape image and explore details using charcoal. Understanding how squinting will help reduce shapes. Adding intense strokes mixed with lighter strokes will help balance the drawing. Visit Robert’s Youtube Channel Here Visit Robert’s Website Here

How to Make your Own Brilliant Colored Surfaces for Pastel Painting!

Join artist Susan Jenkins as she shows you how to make your own surfaces using acrylic paint for use with pastels, that are less expensive than prepared pastel papers. Enjoy! Visit Susan’s YouTube channel here Visit Susan’s Website here

Top 7 Colored Pencil Mistakes that Beginners Make

In the following video lesson, artist Lisa Clough discusses the top 7 mistakes she sees colored pencil artists making. Visit Her YouTube Channel Here Visit Her Website Here

Value is Crucial to Good Art! Pastel Painting Demonstration by Susan Jenkins

Join me in this fun lesson that will help you understand value and how crucial it is to good art. This pastel demonstration is full of helpful art tips…. plus, it’s fun! So glad you joined me! Visit Susan’s YouTube Channel Here Visit Susan’s Website Here

How to Paint a Dramatic Sunset with Pastels!

In the following video, Matt from thevirtualinstructor.com demonstrates how he paints a dramatic sunset using pastels. Watch how Matt uses multiple layers and blending to build up the image and produce a beautiful picture. Enjoy! For more on this lesson, visit http://thevirtualinstructor.com/sunset-with-pastels.html Visit The Virtual Instructor on YouTube

Basic Drawing Fundamentals – Learn How to Compose Better Images

In the following video tutorial, Jazza will teach you how to create more interesting and pleasing compositions in your drawings. Learn about concepts like “center biased”, “rule of thirds”, “contrast” and more. Enjoy! Visit Jazza’s YouTube Channel Here Visit Jazza’s Website Here

Pencil Drawing Tutorial – Learn how to Shade Basic Forms

Learn how to add shading with a pencil to basic forms in this fundamental drawing tutorial. For more on this lesson, follow this link. Shading is the process of adding to value to a drawing. When we get the values right, the illusion of form and light are communicated in the drawing. By learning how […]