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Links
About.com: Drawing and Sketching
Offers tutorials and exercises for skill development. Includes articles, categorized links, and a forum.
Art School Online
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/rogerart/index.html
Roger Elliott presents lessons on drawing portraits, drawing ships, perspective, digital art techniques and color theory.
Art Studio Chalkboard
http://studiochalkboard.evansville.edu/
Illustrated lessons describe linear and atmospheric perspectives, shading and grayscale values, and the golden mean, one of four compositional models.
Artgraphica
Free tutorials about drawing people and faces with charcoal. Art tutorials on CD are available for purchase.
Bet Borgeson Studio
http://www.borgesonstudio.com/
Teaches the colored pencil medium and personal artistic growth through online courses. Includes a FAQ about technique and practice assignments.
Charcoal Demo
http://www.claytonbeck.com/Instructional3.html
This instructional video of a charcoal portrait can be played and easily paused to check the progression of the drawing. Includes a discussion of the practical side of values and edges.
Clare Walker Leslie's Guide to Sketching Trees
http://www.lessonsforhope.org/pdf/Guide_To_Tree_Sketching_PDF.pdf
Nature journal and tree drawing tutorial focusing on tree silhouettes, limbs, leaves, seasonal deciduous trees, and evergreen trees. Pages for your own sketches are included.
Colored Pencil Techniques by Kristy Kutch
http://www.artshow.com/interviews/kutch/index.html
Artist and instructor gives a step-by-step demonstration of colored pencil techniques using the poppy flower as inspiration.
Compendium of free art lessons
http://www.blehert.com/lessons/lesson.html
This archive of 40 free lessons begins with how to look and teaches values, edges, negative space, shadows, color, and composition. It ends with how to price your art.
Draw Anyway
Short drawing tutorials for busy people by Myfanwy Nixon. Each lesson takes less than ten minutes.
Draw23.com
Short video clips demonstrate charcoal drawings of basic shapes, perspective, a portrait, human figures, and a still life. Lessons describe drawing techniques.
Drawing Lessons
http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/K9-14/introduction.htm
Illustrated drawing lessons aimed at students aged 9 to 14. Also includes tips for teachers.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Author Dr. Betty Edwards introduces her teaching technique, the theory behind it, exercises, workshops and materials.
Drawing the Human Hand
http://www.anticz.com/handtut.htm
Ron Lemens tutorial uses precise drawings to show the human hand in proportion to the head and body. It examines the hand mass, the thumb mass, and the line of action.
Drawing Together
http://www.drawingtogether.com
Excerpts from Heather Williams' book "Drawing as a Sacred Activity", artwork by the artist, creativity links, and free drawing lessons in pdf format.

