As with any art drawing is a discipline that requires practice to learn. And the more you practice and learn different techniques, you can focus more on the details, which is where a drawing makes a difference. You need to get the basics, before jumping into the more detail techniques. As a self-taught artist I learned all this process myself, through several years. This is one of my first drawings. It was done about 5 years ago, when I started exploring drawing people portra

I was recently honored with being selected as one of the 30ish artist to participate on the Sammamish Arts fair. The arts fair will be held in Sammamish Commons on October 11th and 12th of this year. This fair is a artist run event with around 2,000 visitors from all the Great Seattle area. I will be showcasing some of my art work (borrowed from their owners) and taking comission jobs from attendees. For more information on the fair please visit:http://sammamishartsfair.wordp

I always thought hair would be the easiest and fastest section to draw… it’s just a bunch of lines in any order…that’s it…well no!....drawing hair is not as easy or as fast as it looks like. In fact hair could account for around 30 – 40% of the time I spend in a drawing. I learned through my own process that hair gives character and volume to the drawing. A bad drawn hair could ruin all the drawing. The reality is that the hair (even if it’s not much) is the wrapper of the wh

Everytime I start a drawing I always pake sure the photo I m going to use has an excellent resolution. The better the resolution, the better the drawing (I am not very good at making up details). With a good resolution I can translate that into my drawing bringing enough expresion to the face. I especially put a lot of attention to the eyes. I think that most of the expression on a face is in the eyes. So here are a few basic tips for beginners that I've learned through my ex

After several years of artistic self-thaught development (and some attempts) I have finally created my website. Part of it is the need to showcase what I do, but there is always marketing/PR friends pushing me to do. I created this site with the intent of sharing some of my experiences as an artist. It will include my "secrets" to drawing, which you just need a couple of minutes to discover that you can find everything you need over the internet (what you really need is patie