These are two drawings I did of Max and DeeDee, my two cats. I would have rather drawn them sitting up, or looking at me, or doing something more active than sleeping, but it was almost impossible to draw them when they were doing anything. Even...

This is the birdhouse I drew today. I am pretty happy with how it came out. Some of the lines could have been erased, like on the top right side and the round base (which I completely mucked up...), but a lot of the lines came out right the first tim...

This is what I drew today. Its an old rhinestone purse that my mother gave me. I never use it, so I was thinking about selling it, but I wanted to check with her first. At first I was just going to photograph it, but for some reason two tasks got cros...

Are you the sort of person who feels like you need to go get something - buy something - before you can begin a new undertaking? For instance, do you feel a strong need to go buy a sketchbook before you can start drawing? Me too. And I did buy a new sk...

This is a skull that I drew today while I was lying on the couch again, too tired to sit up at the table. I may end up drawing a lot of things from the couch.

My partner thinks this is the best drawing I've done to date. Maybe... not sure. It does not re...

I drew this a few minutes ago. I'm trying to build the habit of drawing first thing in the morning. It seems that in the late afternoon and evening, almost anything I try to sketch comes out awful. Not always, but I did five whole pages of bad cat d...

I noticed my keys yesterday, and how interesting they are visually, so I decided to draw them today. Keys are a good subject for a drawing exercise - just about everybody has a set on hand, they are a good size for a detailed drawing, and they usu...

This is a very simple drawing exercise that will be helpful for super beginning drawing students. It requires you to pay more attention to shapes than you normally would. The term "toned ground" means that the paper you are drawing on is colo...

This is a pencil drawing of Max the cat. The very bad cat. He was lying on top of my sketchbook when I came into my office after getting a cup of coffee. I pushed him off (gently), and he just went limp and kind of lolled on the desk a few inches off the...

This is a really simple line drawing that I did for my daily drawing. I was just sitting on my couch, stumped about what to draw, and so I drew this. It came out better than I expected. Its weird how I struggle with finding things to draw, and then a...

This is such a terrific drawing exercise. It seems really dumb, but if you are having a day when everything you draw is AWFUL, you need to do this exercise. It will get you back on track. This is from New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workb...

This is a line art drawing of my office window that I drew today:

I like the way it came out. I took me about twenty minutes to do, which is good to remember when you are procrastinating your drawing for the day - it really is not a huge time commitme...

This did not come out very well, but I am included because that's part of the terms of this - I show you the bad stuff as well as the good stuff.

I started out drawing the mermaid that lies in a plant saucer. That's the funny thing in the foreground....

This is another exercise from New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook

. It gets you to start seeing how different kinds of marks can be used. This is an extremely important thing to master, and it is also very, very interesting. The b...

I did a self portrait back in March when I was starting the exercises from The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, but I did another one to see if I was getting any better. And because I was low on drawing ideas. And because I was flipping thr...

This is the drawing I got done today. It is nothing special, but I did it just to pick up the pencil and keep practicing.

I cheated here. My fingernails aren't painted, and they aren't as long as they are in this drawing. For some reason it just fe...

Ugh. This is for all you people who either think that I can't draw to save my life, or think you can't draw to save your life. This is a bird bath that's in our front garden. Its right by a large window in our kitchen, maybe six feet or less from our ki...

I did a post a few days ago about perfectionism. I've been thinking about it a lot since then, both in terms of this site and in terms of my drawing. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="very, very bad drawing of a wolf"]

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Many people think of the pencil as the one and only drawing tool. The poor eraser gets pushed aside as something that only gets used after you've made a mistake. But that's a wrong approach to take - your eraser can do a lot more than just cover up...

I was talking to some other people who draw last week (none of us really likes the term "artist") and we uncovered a funny secret stigma about erasers. A few of these folks thought that just having an eraser around when you were sketching meant...