Staying Inside the Box

Drawing boats is always a challenge. Those curved shapes are graceful and symmetrical and yet so difficult to put in … More

One Week 100 People

Did you see the online drawing challenge this week? #Oneweek100people2017. I thought it would be kind of fun so I … More

Working with straight lines is one thing, but how do you deal with round? Circles in perspective can boggle the … More

For most drawings, basic two point perspective works just fine. Occasionally, we might want to try a more dramatic angle. … More

Moving on with two point perspective, let’s imagine that we’re drawing a simple house and we want to figure out … More

We were simply drawing boxes in class, putting them in positions that require two vanishing points. One of the students … More

I recently began teaching a six week Perspective course. It’s a topic I find fascinating and I especially enjoy … More

Probably my favorite way to draw trees is to focus on the part that I see up close. Most of the time … More

That’s right, today we’re going to draw a forest and we’re going to try NOT to see the trees. Let … More

There are so many different kinds of trees, can you really use the method I talked about in the last … More