Us artists get pretty down on ourselves at times. We are our own worst critics after all!   It's not entirely a bad thing either...   If we want to improve, we've got to be able to look at our drawings with a critical eye to iron out the errors.   As we get better, we notice more and more of those mistakes because we're training ourselves to spot them.   That's what makes us good at drawing! Noticing our faults in the first place so that we can fix them.   No one intentionally draws their characters out of proportion, or messes up the perspective on their backgrounds ..read more

https://youtu.be/eGnf_piidKg In this drawing tutorial I'll show you the first part of my Bulma fanart demonstration, where you'll see how the female figure is constructed and posed with accurate proportions and anatomy. We'll begin this drawing tutorial by sketching out four rough female figures, each posed in different positions and presented at varying angles to give us a selection of possible base drawings we could build upon. From the set of rough female poses, I'll select the best one and begin adjusting the proportions and refining the anatomy to further solidify the base figure. Then I ..read more

Introduction Learning how to draw superhero heads from the front and side is perfect practice for the general proportions and placement of the facial features. By now you’re probably pretty darn good at drawing those picture perfect portraits and profiles too. Yet, maybe you’re also feeling a little confined and confused when it comes to the other, more complicated points of view beyond the two dimensional realm. Let’s be honest, drawing heads at an angled perspective ain’t the easiest feat in the world to elegantly accomplish. But the truth is, in reality the human head is rarely observed str ..read more

The Fundamental Nemesis of Figure Drawing You’re at the drawing board sketching up the final drafts for that next Comic Book hit… The story and the script are killer; now all that’s left for you to do is to illustrate that Super Hero saga with the level of visual impact needed to do it justice. But there are just a few niggling draw backs to your artistic prowess which are making that ambitious endeavor near impossible... As much as you’ve prepped and practiced, your characters continuously wind up with poses more limp then powerful. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times you erase and ..read more

Introduction to Proportions ​ Here you can see a line-up of four Comic Book superhero's. At a glance they might look like they’re drawn fairly well. They’re all wearing costumes that look pretty cool. And for the most part, their anatomy is all placed together in the right order. They’re also packed with loads of detail and intricate rendering. And of course on a technical level, they’ve been refined with carefully weighted line work. As a whole, you could call these characters well drawn. But if you look carefully, you might also see that something’s just a little bit off about them. They don ..read more

Learning how to draw the human head from the Front, Side and ¾ views is the first step to understanding its basic structure. The Portrait and Profile views show us a clear layout of the head's proportions and placement of the facial features. The shape of the skull, jaw, eyes, nose, mouth and ears are all shown within a flat, two dimensional perspective, allowing us as beginners to easily figure out how everything should fit together. ​ It’s the perfect introduction to learning how to draw the human head, because these direct View Points give us the blue-prints. If we only ever wanted to draw ..read more

Introduction I’m not here to lie to you… Drawing hair IS an incredibly long, tedious and complicated task to tackle. None the less, prepare yourself because there’s no getting around it. Hair is an obstacle that absolutely must be conquered… Well. That is unless you plan on making all your characters bald… In that case I’ll let you off the hook. When drawing a character’s head, it’s the hair that’ll be the most drawn out and time consuming portion of the entire process. Truth be told, it’s precisely because of all those incredibly detailed, chaotically organized strands of hair that many buddi ..read more

Introduction In the first how to draw male heads tutorial we focused on figuring out how to draw the front of the head. It was a doozy, but in the end you had a solid system that literally gave you the power to draw your character’s head from the ground up. But... When it comes to drawing the same head from the side, it becomes a different ball game. Well… Sort of. Basically, we are going to crack this cookie open with the same method by starting out with a simple blue print, using the sphere and guideline technique. You see no matter which way you view the human head, whether it’s from the fr ..read more

So you say that you’ve been studying art for a while now? Well, I think it’s that time we dive into one area of study that is often ignored. Somehow this pillar of art is last on many an artist’s list because it doesn’t seem like there is a science to it. And I was one of those artists for a long time. Anyway, this fundamental of art is called Composition. It is literally the ART of arranging and presenting your ART. I know that may sound confusing but it means that there is actually a skill to be learned about how to combine several elements in a visual way. Many artists leave this area of s ..read more

Introduction ​ If you’re anything like I was, just hearing the word gesture is enough to make your eyes roll. I’m not lying. When I was beginning my journey as an aspiring artist, I really hated gesture drawing. I felt that it was a pretentious way for “fine artists” to scribble some lines and call it figure drawing. I only got more stubborn about the approach as time went on. But let me tell you how wrong I was for telling myself this. ​ First, if you are not aware of what gesture drawing is, then let me fill you in. Gesture drawing is just the act of laying down the rhythm, action and form l ..read more