Take a humble pencil part 5 conor smith answers frequently asked questions about this artwork and techniques

We’ve reached the final instalment of this graphite series, and I’m excited to guide you through the last stages of our drawing project. In Part 1, we broke down the reference photo of the African pai

Painting wildlife is beset with difficulties not often experienced with other genres. This style of painting can be divided into many categories. One of the problems of painting wildlife is that anima

Does painting different colours of fur need separate techniques? With any fur, you need to observe closely and identify its many colours and tones to make your painting accurate. A white dog is never

Find out how EL GUNTO improvises a T-rex from scratch, using contrast, shapes and more for a striking illustration

Any painter who has tackled the challenge of capturing wildlife will know it presents one obstacle more significant than any other: movement. Before the development of photography, this challenge was

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