Tag: drawing

Exploring Jetpack Compose Canvas: the power of drawing

In this article, I will share my experience of using Canvas with Jetpack Compose, which is the new UI toolkit made by Google. The Android Dev Challenge #2 gave me the opportunity to learn tons of things about Canvas and how to take advantage of it to draw and animate shapes or texts in a v...

The Age Of Combustion Is Drawing To A Close

The EV revolution is well on its way. Over the past few years, their range has increased massively, their charging times have plummeted, and they have got far more affordable. As such, range anxiety and usability concerns are waning, making EVs some of the best-selling and most desired cars worldwid...

Back to the Drawing Board

Over the last few years, I’ve had a series of unfortunate events that created some big changes in my life. My wife came out, we divorced, and I was laid off — those are just the highlights. Understandably, I was in an existential slump. An old friend of mine suggested I get back in...

The Sisyphean Task of Drawing Sisyphus

“Drawing comics can be an uphill battle” is a cringingly obvious way to start this article, so I’d like to apologise for that first and then apologise again for this next one before we get things rolling. The undisputed home of single-panel cartoons is of course, a largely unkno...

A New Art Book : Contemporary Drawing in the Present Tense

A great book about Drawing by Claire Gilman and Roger Malbert called " Drawing in the present tense explores the vitality of contemporary drawing by looking at its diversity across seventy-four artists from around the world. Wonderful color photos from artists all over the world. Each artist ho...

The Sisyphean Task of Drawing Sisyphus

“Not a day without a line” — The gentle discipline of drawing every day

When the contemporary British illustrator Ralph Steadman (born 1936) describes his work routine, it resonates with the motto “Not a day without a line”, or in its latin version “Nulla dies sine linea”. It comes from the Ancient Greece painter Apelle (4th century BC), who was ...

How to implement Drawing App on iOS using metal

Welcome to this concise DIY guide on creating a drawing app using Metal without relying on third-party frameworks. As one of the winners of the Telegram Drawing contest, I’ve decided to reveal the details of that task and take you through a step-by-step journey to build your own drawing applic...

The Art of Cartoon Drawing: Capturing Character and Charm

Cartoon drawing is an art shape that has captured hearts and minds for generations. From the early days of animation with characters like Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop to the modern-day sensations of SpongeBob SquarePants and Rick and Morty, cartoons have a completely unique potential to deliver emoti...

What Drawing Skills Do I Have

Based on my more than 30 years of experience in drawing (I haven't received any formal training), let me get straight to the point and share some tips. Tip 1: First and foremost, you need to have an interest. Yes, even if you know that there are no financial gains to be made and you might ...

Visiting a new life drawing group

This week I returned to life drawing once more at the inaugural meeting of a new life drawing group run out of a local artsy venue in an old church. A very lovely place to draw, with the big space and a nice sprinkling of cosy chairs or little tables to perch on. My favourite part of the new grou...

The ABC’s of Drawing

The most essential of all fine art is drawing, for in the fine line of drawing is the birth of the creative spark.” — Vian Borchert Why is drawing so essential? It is in drawing that one starts to see things in a much deeper level allowing the right side of the brain to come alive wi...

How To Improve Your Drawing Skills With AI Drawing Tools

Drawing is a wonderful skill that can express your creativity, imagination, and emotions. It can also be a relaxing and enjoyable hobby or even a rewarding career. But drawing is not easy, and it takes a lot of practice, patience, and perseverance to master it. If you want to improve your drawing...

My Mind’s Drawing: Unleashing the Creative Currents

The human mind is a mysterious and boundless realm, continuously churning with mind, ideas, and feelings. Within this great expanse, lies the exquisite power of creativeness — a force that has pushed humanity to create artwork, literature, and innovation for millennia. In this text, we embark ...

What completing the Inktober drawing challenge can teach you

This year, I participated in the Inktober drawing challenge for the third time. For every day in October, I drew an original ink drawing according to the challenge’s prompts and shared my results on Instagram. The Inktober challenge was started by American artist Jake Parker as a way to imp...

3 Reasons Why You Could Benefit From Meditative Drawing

I’m sure at some point or another in life, we’ve all experienced a moment of unavoidable boredom and subsequently found ourselves doodling on a piece of paper in front of us to pass the time. It’s funny though, isn't it? How interesting and captivating some simple doodles...

Drawing as a Way of Seeing

“To be a good artist, you must first learn how to draw” — Vian Borchert French impressionist and master artist Camille Pissarro correctly exclaimed that, “it is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover, to you...

Bringing Your Dreams to Life: A Step-through-Step Guide to Drawing Your Dreams

Dreams are like home windows to our unconscious minds, packed with fantastical landscapes, bizarre creatures, and endless possibilities. Often, those goals are fleeting, slipping faraway from our memory as we wake up. However, you could seize the essence of your dreams by using bringing them to life...

What Everyone Gets Wrong Drawing Hands — Critiques

Going through all your hand assignments, I noticed most of them have one main issue. They lack structure. Constructing the hand from basic forms and following the primary — secondary — tertiary hierarchy resolves many other issues. It helps to draw the hand accurately from imagination, a...

How to Start Drawing in Your 30s (It’s Easier than You Think)

Drawing is one of the skills that people of all ages can enjoy. It can be very therapeutic and is also a great way to express your creativity. Perhaps you have always wanted to learn how to draw, but never had the time or opportunity to do so. Or, maybe you tried it when you were younger but didn&rs...

Life Drawing 2023 II: Mirrored model!

Regular readers might recall I visited a new local life drawing group back in April. They are held monthly so I hoped to start going regularly. However they also have a monthly theme, and the last couple didn’t appeal to me so much, so I skipped them, so only now have I found my way ...

Unlock Your Inner Artist: Mastering the Art of Drawing

Do you ever look at stunning artworks and think, “I wish I could draw like that”? Well, my friend, I’ve got some exciting news for you. You don’t need natural artistic talent to become a master artist. In fact, you can learn to draw like a pro with just a bit of guidance and ...

Five Basic Drawing Techniques.

There are five basic drawing techniques that should form part of your sketching toolkit. With time and practice you will hardly realise that you employ them in the sketching of basic subjects. Knowing what they are, however, so that you can adapt, adjust and learn where you may be going wrong is ...

My Drawing Setup and Workspace

I draw digitally, but what do I use to turn my ideas into reality? I’m not picky about my workspace, I’d say. I am okay being on the go and creating in buses, cafes and libraries. But when I am home, there is a certain comfort I get in having a place to draw. Here is my workspace...

[Python for Organic/Medicinal Chemistry] How You Can Play with Molecular Structures of Drugs in Python I. Drawing & Converting File Format

In this post, I will show you how to convert drug names into molecular structure, save into Excel, read into Python, display the structure, and convert file format. The motivation was really to batch process a large number of organic molecules in a specific way to support drug discovery. In an ef...

Drawing a Spaceship: Unleash Your Imagination Beyond the Stars

The attraction of space has captivated the human imagination for centuries. The idea of exploring the cosmos, venturing into the tremendous unknown, and coming across new frontiers has inspired generations. What better manner to convey this dream to life than through drawing your very very own space...

Drawing images with Fourier Series

How does this work? The principal component of these drawings is rotation. What does it mean? Imagine that you have an arrow ↑, and you rotate it clockwise with fixed starting point, what does it do? clockwise rotation of an arrow Right, a circle. Now what if we c...

Drawing and reality

This and following posts are a transcript of a talk I gave at Yale University School of Architecture on 2 March 2018. Adolfo Natalini (*1941), Superstudio Sketchbook, New York, 1969–1970. Ink on paper. © The artist. I am going to begin with a quotation from the art critic, ...

The Difference Between Drawing and Illustrating

You might like one more than the other. You might see one as being more artistic than the other. Or showing more skill. It depends on what you mean, and what you are looking for in an “art” piece. The first image is a drawing from a photo. I drew my friend Ryan, running the Ja...

Gartic TV — The Party Drawing Game

The holiday season finally came, and we took some time thinking… What gift could we give? So we’d like to share a new and different game with you! Meet Gartic TV, our new Party Drawing Game! Have fun playing Gartic locally with your friends and family. Ideal for parties and ...

Drawing female body, face, and Brest, with proper proportions.

If you want to improve your drawing skills and learn to draw a man’s or woman’s body, face, hands, and feet you need just to read this article! We have covered everything in one place, including the master tips, mentioned below. Read carefully so you don’t miss them. A woman is ...

The Don’ts in Drawing

Twenty years ago, art was something you did as a hobby. It was not a smart choice and certainly not something you could do as a freelancer. At that time, only experienced artists and illustrators were able to survive with just art. At least, that was the world I lived in. Nowadays, it seems everyone...

Awesome-LaTeX-drawing: A Collection of Academic Drawing Examples using LaTeX

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system, and it is available as a free software. In recent years, it is very popular for creating and drawing academic graphics by using LaTeX. This is because that LaTeX is able to draw many complicated graphics containing special symbols and math equations. It ...

The Art of Pencil Drawing

Introduction Pencil drawing is one of the most basic yet versatile forms of visual art. With just a pencil and paper, artists can create stunning works of art using various techniques and styles. Materials Pencils come in a range of hardnesses, from 9H (hardest) to 9B (softest). Harder ...

Drawing journey

I chose this beautiful doodle picture because that’s how my art journey feels. I am floating in space, surrounded by a million things, and I can’t seem to make up my mind. Last time I told you about my writing journey. The story seems incomplete without telling you something about my ...

Figure Drawing Resources for Those That Can’t Go to an Atelier

A look at some wonderful available resources on the web for those trying to learn figure drawing without access to classroom instruction… I feel compelled to start this post by mentioning that I have not attended an Atelier myself, but would have to think that learning to draw effectively ...

Back to the Drawing Board

Landscape Drawing Tutorial — Learn to draw landscapes and background scenery easily — INTRO

Want to know how to draw landscapes or background scenery? Are you looking for online drawing lessons on how to draw scenery backgrounds? If you browse most amateur drawing galleries on the web, it won´t take much time before you notice that adding a background is one of the things where peo...

Drawing with code: an intro to CSS art

What is CSS Art? CSS art lies at the intersection of vector illustration and front-end development. It involves manipulating HTML <div> elements with CSS to render shapes in the browser. These shapes are customized by assigning values to various properties like height, b...

How to train your talent and drawing skills well

Talent is an innate predisposition to master some skill, including some physical and mental qualities. You will get it by practicing your skills as well. There are a lot of skills and exercises to practice, that include your physical abilities like eye to hand connection and brushwork, mental abili...

Different type of Outline Techniques in Drawing

Drawing is about observation. And if you want to improve your drawing skills, then you must focus on how you see the subjects that you draw. Simply it can be said “draw what you see”. We have been hearing that draw what you see, but we will not know how to see and what to see, then th...

Things about Pencil Portrait Drawing

A lot of people get confused between a sketch and a pencil portrait/painting. When drawings are made with minimum use of lines, these are called sketches, whereas when a pencil is used as if it is a brush and gives a paint-like feel and more detailed artwork, it is called pencil painting. Dif...

Drawing and writing are very close to language

Volunteering is at the core of our society. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” Some people volunteer to gain skills, some to network, some to give back to society and feel satisfied, etc. Person...

The Age Of Combustion Is Drawing To A Close

The #1 Mistake New Growers Make When Drawing Conclusions

You name it, and there’s a brand new grower with an unqualified opinion. I don’t say this to beat up on new growers. Even 4 years in, I’m still very new to this. Sure, I can look at a spec sheet and point out the differences on a light. But my setup is nowhere close to ...

Step by step fashion figure drawing

In this section, we will draw a 9-head long fashion design female figure illustration. The 9-head long fashion figure is the most ideal figure for artistic drawing. Fashion figures are more elegant and impressive than the real human anatomy. Step 1 The head of the female fashion figure is ...

The Difference Between Drawing and Illustrating

The first image is a drawing from a photo. I drew my friend Ryan, running the Javelina Jundred, an ultra marathon through the Arizonian desert. I looked at the photo and draw what I saw. There is definitely a certain amount of skill involved. I had to know how to hold my pencil. I had to make d...