September Beginner Tutorials

I will be posting 2 new Beginner Drawing Tutorials and 1 new Super Simple Tutorial this month!

  I hope you enjoy drawing these Apples as much as I did.

Two new Tip Videos to help you decide what to do when things aren’t flowing perfectly in your drawing process.

In this video, I will show you how to get rid of messy smudges and create crisp, clean edges around your colored pencil drawings.

Clean edges can really take your drawings to the next level, so don’t miss this one!

This is one of my all time favorite Tip Videos!  One of the things I frequently say in my tutorials is, “Draw what you see.”  In this video, I explain what I mean by this and give you some tips for how to do it.           

In this video, I review the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards.  Spoiler, I loved it!                                                                                                                                                                                   

In this video I discuss 10+ of my favorite tips for beginners to colored pencil drawing.  This includes a combination of practical drawing tips along with some mindset tips to keep you progressing.

In this video, I will be talking about working with dark values in your colored pencil drawings.

I will be reviewing my favorite individual pencils for achieving really dark values and offering tips for working with shadows.

In this video I talk about adding details to your drawings including when to add details and when you might consider leaving them out. 

I then demonstrate 4 of my favorite techniques for adding details including indenting the paper, squiggles and dots, Posca Paint Pen and Slice Tool.

In this video, I will show you several different ways to create white details using colored pencils.

I will be reviewing and demonstrating many different products and tools to see how well I can use them to achieve white details.

In this video series, I discuss the techniques of Dissolving, Burnishing, Blending and Transitioning.  In my opinion, these are some of the most important skills to master in order to create realistic colored pencil drawings.

In this video, I give you some tips on how to accurately critique your own artwork.

I also take a trip down memory lane and give my honest take on several of my older drawings.

Learn how I photograph, edit, store, frame and post my drawings.

In this video, I give a review of the Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils.  This is a new brand that I have recently added to my collection, so I thought I would record my process of learning about these pencils.         

In this video, I give a detailed review of Prismacolor, Polychromos, Luminance, Derwent Drawing and Derwent Lightfast pencils.

This is an update to the comprehensive paper review I did back in 2020.

I talk about my current favorite paper, Legion Rising Museum Mount Board.  I also review Stonehenge, Arches Hot Pressed Watercolor Paper, and Strathmore Bristol Smooth.

In this video, I give a detailed review of Prismacolor, Polychromos, Luminance, Derwent Drawing and Derwent Lightfast pencils with a focus on COLOR.