Drawing Exercises

Work through structured drawing exercises that build specific skills and boost your confidence progressively. These practise activities target observation, hand control, and creative problem-solving in manageable, enjoyable ways.

Blind Drawing

Looking around and observing the world about you is central to drawing and painting yet it is all too often that attention is drawn to the paper or canvas, a...

Drawing Sensations

Beyond the visual reality of life that can be seen there are a number of ‘sensations’ that are experienced such as smell, sound, touch and hearing. If pa...

Freeing Yourself Up

There is a tendency for the beginner artist to tense up when first drawing. This is perfectly natural and derives from nervousness as to the outcome of the d...

Life Drawing

Life Drawing is the exercise of drawing the human form often, but not necessarily, nude. Life drawing is considered to be one of the most important drawing s...

Maximising Creativity Through Risk

Whilst creative brilliance is often achieved through a considered and practiced dedication to an art form there are few gains without risk, and this is one o...

Thinking Outside the Box

The term ‘thinking outside the box’ is best known as an Americanism and one that has begun to grate following its repeated use on real life chat shows su...

Wrong Hand Drawing

There is a tendency early on in the development of an artist to develop a restrictive style based partly upon the desire to copy more accomplished artists. T...