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Hello there good people, and welcome to another tutorial here on the Drawing Journey. This time I’ll show you how to draw an anchor step by step. The anchor, of course, is a much loved and traditional motif representing strength and stability in a sea of turmoil. Something I think we can all agree is Read More

With their simple, yet delicate shapes, flowers present a nice challenge, with ample learning opportunities for artists of all levels. So let’s sharpen our pencils, and get cracking with another drawing tutorial on how to draw flowers. More specifically how to draw the humble, yet beautiful, meadow buttercup, Ranunculus acris. Enjoy!  Tons of fun, tons of learning! If you’ve ever visited Read More

Today we’re going to learn how to draw a pencil. “Another one” you might say, because in this post we ALSO drew a pencil, but today we’re going to take it up a notch. The first one we did, was a REALLY simple one, and this time around we’re going to add a few things, Read More

So… You’ve decided that you wanna learn how to draw, and you start looking into lessons, and other resources on how to go about that the best way. Chances are that very quickly you’ll encounter talk about “drawing from the shoulder”… But not a lot of talk about HOW to draw from the shoulder! At Read More

A tiki mask is a really fun design to draw, and one that you can vary in a million different ways. If you need some inspiration, there are literally hundreds if not thousands different ones out there. Just do a quick Google search, or look somewhere like Pinterest, and you’ll find a plethora of drawings Read More

In this lesson, I am going to show you how to draw a piranha. Well, one way to do it anyway… 😉 As I’ve stated before, one of my favourite things about drawing, is the fact that you have pretty much total freedom in what you do. The only limitations come from your own imagination Read More

So this is what is known as doodle drawing, art doodling, or simply doodling. A bunch of weird little drawings and scribbles in seemingly no particular order. One definition of doodling is ‘to scribble or draw aimlessly, to play or improvise idly’. Often times its something that people do, while stuck in situations that are Read More

Remember the movie “Little Shop of Horrors”? I got to thinking about that fun classic movie the other day, and it inspired me to do this drawing. “FEED ME, Seymour!!!” (I can almost hear him saying it right now… 😉 Well… In actuality, my drawing doesn’t really look like the plant in that movie, but Read More

Yes, that is his name… And he’s a real charmer, I know! 😉 I didn’t name him, though. Lee J. Ames did. In his book “Draw 50 Monsters”, which is where I found the reference for how to draw this great looking character. If you’re looking for a collection of tutorials on monster, creeps, and Read More

Today I am going to show you how to draw the devil. A well-groomed cartoon style devil, that is… I am using the book “How to draw 50 monsters” by Lee J. Ames, as my reference. It is one of the books in his “Draw 50” series, of which there are 26 different ones (I Read More