Casey Baugh is a very talented young artist. I found out about him online and found his work to be very striking. I really do not know much about him but wanted to post some of his work for you guys to enjoy. You can see more of his work on his site.  caseybaughfineart.com

For this one we are going to expand the tools some. And if you decided to get some of the supplemental DVD’s and book’s you probably already have started using other materials.  But if you have not lets do it now.  To expand from just using pencils we are going to add charcoal.  Charcoal presents  [ Read More ]

I am just starting to use oil paints again so I did this quick value study. Also included is a colored version I did very quickly in photoshop just to get an idea of how the values look in color.

Zhao Kailin is an artist I just found online. I Do not know much about him but I wanted to share his work with all the readers. Below are some of his images and you can see many more on his site. www.kailfineart.com

OK now for something completely different. Get your sketch book and materials and go outside. Go draw things lots of things. Draw trackers, dogs, cars, trees, buildings anything and everything.  And try and remember what you have learned about shading. Also try quick drawings where you just capture the gesture of the object.  Think of  [ Read More ]

OK for this one we will go back to the Bargue Plates. This is plate 1-5 the first that includes much shading.  You will do it site size mentioned in the previous lessons.   Remember not to rush this exercise. Take your time I have seen people work on this for weeks. You can download the  [ Read More ]

OK next you will be doing shading a sphere.  Use my example image below for this project. Here is another more indepth way of looking at shading the sphere.

To start with lets do some a simple exercise on scales. You will need to be able to master your pencil enough so that you can make the different shades. And at this point it might help to get a set of pencils so that you can have softer and harder ones. This scale is  [ Read More ]

This section will be on shading. And assuming you have done all of the work up to this point and really learned the lessons things will start to come together now.  The shading you will be learning will let you really start to show form and volume. So this section should be a lot of  [ Read More ]

Next I want you to get back out the shapes from lesson 1.  Arrange these shapes into a still life. And do a line drawing of them using your easel like the other exercises. Concentrate on accuracy and work on this until you feel comfortable doing it accurately. Also I have not mentioned this because  [ Read More ]