Here’s how the finished painting in this series on drawing motorcycles will look In the previous lesson on drawing motorcycles, you learned how to refine your thumbnail sketch in preparation for working on your motorcycle concept painting. Now, you’re going to start blocking in some basic tones and shapes to define your painting using a …
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 05 |Blocking out Basic Tones and Shapes Read More »
Take a look at the finished painting in this series on how to draw a motorbike In the previous lesson on how to draw a motorbike, you learned how to create a variety of quick thumbnail sketches to develop the initial concept of your motorcycle design. Now, you’re going to take your favorite sketch and add …
Motorcycle Concept Sketching | 04 |Refining Thumbnail Sketches Read More »
Set Up Your Selection Masks Ready to learn how to paint a pin up girl in Photoshop? To get started with coloring a digital work – the first thing that you will need is either a scan or a photograph of a drawing that you’ve done. A scan is best so that the white of the …
How to Draw a Clenched Hand: Pulling Ready to learn how to draw a clenched hand? When you are drawing hands that are pulling on an object, pay attention to the flesh between the thumb and the palm of the hand. When the thumb is spread out it makes a nice web, but when the …
Drawing Hands and Feet | 05 |Drawing Hands with Force Read More »
[vid url=”https://vimeo.com/174608840″] In this lesson on how to draw a pose, you’ll be taking a different approach to the previous lesson. In this instance, you will begin drawing a pose looking in a different direction. The reason for this is to change up the point of view and perspective from the first thumbnail sketch you made.With …
Pin Up Sailor Girl | 02 |How to Draw a Pose Pt. 2 Read More »
How to Draw Realistic Hands in Perfect Symmetry Drawing an Interesting Hand Do you want to learn how to draw realistic hands? This article has everything you need to get the symmetry right. When drawing the hands it’s best to think of the hand as being at rest. The tendons and muscles in our hand …
Drawing Hands and Feet | 02 |How to Draw Hand Symmetry Correctly Read More »
Hair Foundation In this lesson you’ll learn how to draw hair on the surface of the head. This is an important lesson to learn because it’s going to drive home the point that the hair is sitting on top of the skull underneath. Bad Hair Drawing Examples The above two heads have some obvious problems …
Now that you’ve spent some time coloring, here’s what your final image will look like at the end of this lesson on how to paint portraits. Create a New Color Layer For the next part of this tutorial on how to paint portraits, create a new layer on top of the under-painting layer that you …
Painting a Realistic Portrait | 05 |Adding Color Values Read More »
Subscribe to the Pencil Kings Podcast: | iTunes | Stitcher One of the unique portraits created by Michael Grills Artist Michael Grills has developed a unique portrait style and has an endless list of glowing testimonials from happy clients. Yet, he’s never tried to chase fame and puts his success down to hard work and …
PK 012: Michael Grills on Why Chasing Fame Won’t Make You a Better Artist Read More »
Want to learn how to draw perfect pinups? This can be a great way of getting your art seen by millions, so read on for some tried and tested techniques from the pinup pros! Ever since prehistoric man picked up a piece of slate and drew an attractive girl on the wall of his …