Free eBooks & videos from Artist Daily
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Acrylic Painting
If you have been in search of free art lessons to learn how to paint with acrylics, Artist Daily has you covered! Due to popular demand, Artist Daily is offering this FREE eBook on how to paint with acrylics with seven step-by-step painting lessons. From the empty painting canvas to your completed masterpiece, this downloadable guide of beginners acrylic painting instruction is perfect for the aspiring acrylic artist, whether beginner or experienced. See your acrylics painting come to life with the help of this free art lessons eBook.
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Drawing Basics
Have you always wanted to learn how to draw? Are you interested in brushing up on drawing basics? Whether you're looking for drawing lessons for beginners or basic drawing tips to improve your art, the experts at Artist Daily have you covered. This free eBook includes all the fundamental step by step drawing tips you need to get started. You can download these drawing basics right now and embark on a whole new journey of artistry. There are 26 free beginner drawing techniques offered in this free eBook, which can help you learn how to draw a cylinder, how to draw a sphere, how to draw a cube, how to draw a circle and how to use these skills to advance in your drawing adventure.
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Figure Drawing
Bringing life to your figure drawings is about drawing the model's gesture, not what the model looks like. The most important part in drawing models is being able to show things happening, events occurring or about to occur. Those events are expressed more in the action lines of figures in your pieces than in their surface information. Creating a life filled figure drawing is essential to communicating with your audience. Dynamic expression of movement brings purpose to the composition of your pieces. The concepts described in this free eBook will give your life drawing poses the breath and movement you've been looking for.
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How to Draw People
Do you want to learn all the tricks to successfully drawing people? The experts at Artist Daily have gathered their best tips and techniques in this illustrated free eBook. Download this amazing resource and learn human anatomy drawing and portrait drawing with renowned artists Tony Ryder and Sandra Angelo. The first part of this free tutorial will walk you through how to draw a face, how to draw hands, how to render the envelope and gesture of the human body. Ryder explains classic graphite techniques, which will help you learn how to draw people. The second part of the eBook offers information on how to draw people directly from a photograph. This is a more modern take on drawing people with graphite. So whether you are trying to take a classic approach to drawing people or a more modern approach, this FREE eBook will give you all the knowledge you need to successfully draw people.
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How to Draw Perspective
Join Naomi Ekperigin, editor for American Artist magazine, for a look at one of the most common types of perspective drawing, linear perspective. This video tutorial begins with a look at one-point perspective and the basics of perspective drawing. Add even more dimension to your work using the two-point perspective technique. Then challenge yourself by adding a third vanishing point, and transitioning into three-point perspective. Watch this free video and get started drawing perspective using three-, two-, and one-point perspective!
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Landscape Painting Techniques
From the canvas to your completed masterpiece, this downloadable guide to landscape painting is perfect for the aspiring landscape artist, whether beginner or experienced. Learn alongside two skilled landscape artists as they share their best kept secrets and unique techniques to help you develop your own style of painting landscapes. See your landscape artwork come to life with the help of the landscape painting lessons in this free eBook.
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Life Drawing
Life drawing lessons aren't just for students. Continuing with this practice throughout your career will result in better art. The experts at Artist Daily have compiled 11 valid reasons why attending life drawing lessons and learning how to draw models will improve your art. Life drawing is a consistently rewarding artistic expression, because there is so much to take in. Every time a model makes a move, there's something to glean and work on—shadows and gesture to skin texture and how the limbs extend. Every life drawing pose reveals a whole new avenue of artistic pursuit. Whether or not you've already taken classes on figure drawing before, continuing in life drawing lessons and mastering life drawing skills should be a regular practice. In this free eBook, learn the reasons life drawings should be a part of every artist's repertoire.
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Oil Painting Techniques
Learn from a renowned oil painting artist with this free eBook! If you have been in search of free instructions on oil painting techniques, Artist Daily has you covered! These 8 expert oil painting tips will help you enhance your oil painting art, giving you the tools to express your oil art with taste without limiting your artistic expression.
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Painting Flowers
From this eBook you can learn how to paint flowers with a real sense of floral composition. Learn from Master Painter James Sulkowski how to create dynamic action within your flower paintings. See how using one or more design concepts while painting flowers can bring life and light to your art. Sulkowski also explains how to work within a design concept while still allowing artistic freedom within your art. The results are extremely individual, cohesive, and complete. Learn how to paint flowers today with this free eBook from Artist Daily.
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Pastel Painting
Explore the great variety of ways pastels can be used in your artwork. What gives pastel painting and pastel drawing their originality is the way colors are blended or layered directly on the surface, rather than mixed on a palette. With this free pastel painting eBook, Artist Daily gives you the tools to learn how to paint with pastels by focusing on the generous color effects offered by this medium. Download your free copy today and achieve vibrant colors, creating stimulating and high-energy pastel portraits and pastel landscapes.
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Pencil Drawing
Some draftsman will do almost anything to create drama around their figures in pencil portraits. They may encase their figure with expressive linework or even use color to excite the eye. But all too often, they will wait until the last minute to make use of one of the most powerful tools in an artist's toolbox: value. Without value changes, all the elements of pencil drawings become dull, flat, and boring. This is because neither line nor shape can exist without value and gradations of light and dark. Join artist Dan Gheno for an exploration of the use of values to invigorate pencil drawings and add excitement.
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Plein Air Painting
En plein air is a French expression which means "in the open air". It is used by artists to describe the art of outdoor painting, capturing landscapes and views in natural light. Plein air painting has been a popular practice for centuries and requires specific skills and techniques. Artist Daily has selected the best tips from experienced plein air artists in this amazing free eBook: Plein Air Painting Techniques: 18 Tips for Outdoor Painting from Artist Daily. These techniques apply to both plein air oil painting and plein air watercolor. Download your copy today, discover the best approaches to plein air painting, along with expert advice on the tools and plein air equipment you'll want to bring along when painting outdoors.
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Portrait Painting
If you have been in search of free portrait painting lessons, Artist Daily has you covered! Discover 38 portrait painting techniques, explained in specific, sequential steps you can remember and repeat. From the positioning of the figure to the details of the background, this easy-to-follow process will give you the discipline and focus that the difficult art of portraiture demands. See your portrait paintings come to life with the help of this free portrait painting techniques eBook. From the empty canvas to your completed masterpiece, this downloadable guide of watercolor portrait and oil portrait instruction is perfect for the aspiring portrait artist, whether beginner or experienced.
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Shading
The art of pencil shading is essential for adding convincing form to your line drawings. Add substance and three-dimensional form to your pencil drawing subjects with proper shading techniques that go beyond basic cross hatching.
Artist and instructor, Jon deMartin, points out that in order to draw convincing forms, an artist must become a master at modeling gradations. The best way to conquer gradation is to practice shading shapes like cylinders before moving onto more complicated forms and the figure. By modeling gradated values on shapes such as cylinders, artists are able to draw realistic forms that turn in space.
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Sketching
The art of drawing sketches is at the core of every effective figurative image, whether it's a loose three-minute drawing, a tight resolved three-week drawing, or an obsessively observed and reworked three-year painting. That is why Artist Daily has put together this free sketching tutorial, filled with pencil sketch lessons for you to use as a guide for all your drawings.
Learning how to sketch is a fundamental skill for all artists. Keeping a sketchbook is essential to gather inspiration and explore new creative ideas. When working on a new piece, your initial sketch drawing establishes the overall proportion of your object, quickly fixing the mood, the sweeping action of the pose, and the underlying rhythms of your composition. Correctly capturing the gesture of your models serves as a foundation that keeps all of your later, detailed observations vital and alive.
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Still Life Painting
In this free still life painting instruction eBook, two artists talk about how they let loose their artistic inspirations through their still life paintings. Lisa Dinhofer discusses the fact that still life drawing is an essential part of her work, as a draftsman but also as an oil painter. Still life art is where she starts every new idea, and often her best artistic ideas come to her while drawing still life setups in her studio. Joe Gyurcsak uses still life oil painting as a way of brushing up on the essential methods he needs as a practicing artist. Gyurcsak is committed to keeping still life painting a part of his artistic practice.
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Watercolor
Watercolor painting has grown, evolved, and continued to challenge artists for centuries. Even today, watercolor artists are discovering new methods for creating watercolor art. One of these watercolor artists, Ali Cavanaugh, doesn't shrink from the challenges of watercolor, but rather is empowered by them.
In this watercolor tutorial she shares her watercolor painting tips and demonstrates her entire process of watercolor painting from setting up the model, to adding the finishing touches. Learn more about her unique practice, and discover how to incorporate depth and luminosity in your own watercolor art when you download this free eBook 10 Watercolor Painting Techniques from Artist Daily today!
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