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Step-by-step drawing tutorials in pencil, on a graphics tablet, in Photoshop and Procreate. Each one covers a single subject — a face, eyes, lips, a figure, a house — from the first line to a finished piece. All free, no sign-up.
Blender for beginners starts not with models but with the workspace: Object Mode and view control, creating objects, the 3D cursor and modifiers, edit mode, materials and UV unwrapping. The order in which people learn it from zero.
A 3D block-out takes the most tedious part off a 2D illustrator — building the perspective and finding the angle. The pipeline step by step: fast scene blocking, complex models, lighting, materials, render and painting over the top.
In ZBrush a model is pushed around like clay rather than built from polygons. Where the program is used and why studios pick it, and then a simple lesson for a first run — a frog in a doughnut.
The torso is two rigid volumes, the ribcage and the pelvis, joined by a movable waist. The tilt between them sets the pose and the muscle lies over the top. Proportions, the differences between male and female build, and the order of work on the drawing.
Light and shade is six gradations on a form: light, halftone, core shadow, reflected light, cast shadow and highlight. The work goes from the overall value mass to detail. The value gradient, the laws of shading and a step-by-step study on a sphere and on more complex objects.
A highlight is a reflection of the light source, which is why it is not everywhere and not always. How it differs from light and reflected light, what highlights look like on different materials, and how to draw them on hair, eyes and water, including the sun's path across waves.
To draw a chest, start with a box in perspective. Volume first, then the lid with its own curve, then the banding and the lock. The texture of the wood and metal goes on last, once the form already stands.
An artist needs load-bearing anatomy: the bones you can see under the skin and the muscles that change the silhouette. You start with the skeleton, then the axes and planes of the body, the proportions of its sections and the principle of simplification. Plus the usual mistakes, including learning anatomy without drawing.
To draw a house, start with a box in perspective — one-point, two-point or three-point, depending on where you are looking from. The roof, windows and doors then sit on the box, and only at the end come the shadow and the texture of the walls.
