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It’s always a good trick, this one, and incredibly simple to pull off: just leave one part of your picture untouched, and you will get an immediate focus on it. An easy yet effective stylistic flourish, if you will.
Just a quick note that if you are interested in Beautiful Doodles, the book mentioned in […]

Linzie Hunter, whose innovative Spam Art I mentioned in a previous post has contacted me to say that her images are now available to buy as prints - so if you are looking for that elusive Christmas present for your colleague, boss or friendly neighbourhood spammer, your prayers may have been answered. They’re available here. […]

Bingo McDingo is another keen Draw Anyway reader who answered my recent plea for guest posts - and he did it in style, with a video post! Now, you might think you know everything about potato printing. You learned it in primary school, didn’t you? But I bet you can learn a few new […]

A couple of weeks ago, Draw Anyway featured a post by Darryl Cunningham about his inimitable style of drawing buildings. I’m delighted to say that I now present his second offering, this time on how to paint with acrylics. Darryl writes:

Here’s a large acrylic painting I did on canvas, which was purchased by an American […]

Apologies if you’ve already seen this: it’s been cropping up on lots of different blogs over the last few days. I include it for those who haven’t yet seen it, because I was quite impressed by what it can do. Vector Magic is intended for the use of those designing logos. By changing an image […]

This is a doodle I drew during a meeting today. Just a plain old tortoise, biro on office paper. One of those pictures you’re drawing and you don’t know what’s going to come out. What’s that tortoise doing? Nosing along the ground eating some grass, perhaps.
Later in the meeting, still not really thinking, I added […]

If you had to tell a story with pictures, the chances are your first thought would be to do so with a sequential series - perhaps even a comic strip. But stories can be told with a single picture. It’s kind of killing me that the best example I can think of is the […]

This post falls firmly into the category of ‘reminding myself of good habits’. It’s a simple one, and one that art teachers forever try to encourage, but somehow I just forget. It’s simply this: draw thumbnails before you launch into a bigger picture.
A thumbnail, so legend has it, takes its name from the practice […]

Regrettably, I have to say, the view from the desk I sit at at work is not the most inspiring. There is, however, one eye-catching element; the tall floodlights that overlook the local cricket ground, which happens to be just across the road from my office.
The other day, I noticed them in particular, because they […]

The way I see it, there are two broad ways of approaching collage: you can use unidentifiable coloured bits of paper to make up your image, or you can use figures, shapes and objects from photographs, rearranged to make a new picture. The former might be more pleasing, ultimately, but the latter is quick, quick, […]