How To

This page lists all the the previous posts by category.

Drawing Basics    
Arm Proportions
Basic Shapes and Forms       
Curve of the Torso       
Drawing the Eye    
Drawing Feet       
Drawing The Ear
Elements of Light         
Elements of Light Breakdown
Ellipses     
Figure Proportion
Figure Proportion; Female
Figure Drawing, constructing from basic shapes
Figure Drawing, Starting Out
Foreshortening     
Hand proportions
Head Construction
Head Proportions
Line and Edges       
Lips and Mouth Basics      
Materials-Charcoal        
Measuring with the Pencil
The Nose
Pineapple Drawing - Shape and Form
Portrait Drawing
Sharpening a Charcoal Pencil
Simple Shapes - Drawing Hands      
Simple Skeleton  
Structure Drawing       
The Thumb
Value: Checkerboard illusion explained
Value Scale
Viewfinder 

Basics for beginners link list

Color Basics

Analogous Split Complements
Color Wheel
Complementary Color    
Color and Value  
Reducing Color Saturation  
Subtractive Color System
Temperature
Tints and Shades   
Watercolor Complements 

Painting Basics
Form Structure     
Glass and Transparent Form
Landscape: Atmospheric Perspecitive
Landscape: Editing a Scene
Landscape: Step by Step  
Masking Fluid for Watercolor    
Materials-Brushes  
Priming a Surface       
Portrait Painting, starting a painting
Portrait Painting, light side and shadow side
Quick Studies: Value Pattern
Transferring a Drawing to Watercolor Paper    
Watercolor Mixing Exercise     
Watercolor Complements      
Watercolor Texture       
Wet in Wet Demo-pineapple guava (watercolor)  
Wet in Wet, Wet on Dry  Demo Cosmos Flower (watercolor)    
Yosemite Landscape Demo


Anatomy Basics

Anatomy of the Nose      

Anatomy of the Arm  

The Back: Skeletal Structures
The Deltoid
Flexor Muscles of the Forearm
The Hand: Wrist Bones
The Hand: Metacarpals and the thumb
The Hand: The bones of the fingers
Muscles of the Back
Muscles of the Face     

Muscles of the Neck: Part I 

Muscles of the Neck: Part II

Muscles of the Neck: Part III 
Muscles of the Upper Arm
The Pectoralis Major
Pelvis muscles
Serratus Anterior
The Skull    
Why Learn Anatomy
The skeleton, anterior view
The skeleton, lateral view
The skeleton, posterior view
Just having fun drawing the back

Figure Proportions
Arm Proportions
Figure Proportion
Head Proportions  


Other
Golden Ratio     
Compressing value scale

Perspective
Foreshortening
One Point Perspective     
Two Point Perspective
Three Point Perspective
Picture Plane in One Point Perspective
How to Build a Roof in Perspective