Point art

When an artist who wants to study drawing and painting starts attending school or training to learn the techniques that go into it, he or she is often asked

If you like to draw patterns or doodle, you can learn to "Zentangle." As the name implies, it's a Zen-like way of creating images through repetitive patterns and shapes. "ZEN" refers to a set of...

I always found it strange that artists create very beautiful but complicated pictures, like hyperrealism, to show something, that people can easily see themselves. So I just tried to create paintings reflecting the character of different animals using a very simple technique. For me, it's not important, how art is made, but the most valuable thing is what people feel when they look at the painting.

When an artist who wants to study drawing and painting starts attending school or training to learn the techniques that go into it, he or she is often asked

References for various fundamental things - composition, balance of details etc. I don't have sources for most of these as its something that was lying on my hdd for a while, but you should be able to look it up through google images.

Understanding one point perspective, vanishing points and convergence lines is a handy skill for artists and crucial to learn advanced perspective topics later.

Hand drawn little ink dots... Professional Photographer and Industrial Designer María Lecanda is the artist that created these drawings. I love this style; stippling is an example of order, patience, skill and the power of individual dots coming together to illustrate a story. I like them all but my very favourites are: The feeling of motions in the dancing couple and the subtle looking complexity, of the scuba diver. Have a look though the page and see what you think of this talented…