Is it your dream to learn to draw in 2021 or to improve your drawing?

With our third lockdown just descended upon us, now might be just the time for you to take some time out for creativity and finally learn to draw, or to improve your drawing skills...

I've decided to offer 50% off the normal price of my Essential Drawing Skills course and my Confident Colour and Composition course for the duration of this lockdown to help those of you who need a creative outlet - have fun, get creative, and improve your skills!

Both courses are self-study - meaning you can download the PDF and any additional material, print it out if you want, and get creative at home away from the computer so that you can relax, enjoy yourself, and take it all entirely at your own pace...

I have lots of drawing resources right here that can help you...

• Free drawing lessons to get you started
• Full 'Start Drawing Your Way Essential Drawing Skills' self-study course (suitable for beginners or those with a little experience wanting to improve)
• 'Confident Colour & Composition' artist's self-study course (to help you improve colour and composition when creating artworks)

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Hello 2021!

Welcome to another year... 

Let's hope that 2021 will be kind to us all!

I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas break. I'm starting the year with a bit of a creative sabbatical - taking some time just to experiment and play, without having an idea of what I specifically want to produce or where it should fit with my existing art...

It can be difficult, sometimes, to allow ourselves the feeling of freedom - freedom from judgement or expectation when we create - the freedom that we need to develop in our personal creativity journey...

So that's what I'm going to do for a little while at the start of 2021 - allow myself that breathing space for my creative journey to find its own path - and (hopefully!) enjoy where it goes...

I'll share regularly with you what I'm up to - and if you're looking forward to my regular posts on drawing and creativity, or eager to see the remaining trees in my Celtic Tree Calendar project, don't worry, they're all in place and will all be happening...
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So, please, stay tuned and we'll all see what happens...

​Looking forward to connecting with you in 2021 ~ Lotti x
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Learn pencil drawing techniques and ideas to improve your drawing skills…

The graphite pencil is our basic drawing tool, so it’s well worth learning how to draw well with pencil.
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Whether you prefer to just draw with pencil for sketches and rough outlines, or if you love to create your finished artwork completely in pencil, there are different pencil drawing techniques that can help you.
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'Window on the World' - my lockdown window art created during the UK's second lockdown in November 2020...

Over 2020, home has become such an important place for us - our safe place, our work place, our family, our base for all of life, now - I wanted to create an artwork about this. This is inspired by my real-life window and the vases, plants, and nature that are on my windowsill.

In this artwork, I'm inside the home, and I have brought some of nature inside - but I'm still looking out, through my window, at the wintery world outside...
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How to use being mindful in nature to collect meaningful and personal inspiration for your expressive art drawings…

Colourful Christmas accessories, fashion, home wares, tableware and dining ware - let's stay cosy at home this Christmas season...

I've got some gorgeous new Christmas homewares and other goodies to keep you happy and comfortable at home this winter and to bring the Christmas cheer right to you on your sofa...

Taking time out for art, being mindful in nature, and bringing that back to our creativity…

I've just added some beautiful new personalised mugs to my Etsy store - they make great gift ideas and stocking-fillers for friends and family...

It's been back to school for me this autumn - I'm currently just over halfway through Victoria Johnson's wonderful Create Collections class - and I'm enjoying taking a new look at colour and creating my artworks and designs with a collection in mind...

Here's some of what I've been up to so far, with more to come!
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Learn how to easily measure drawing angles and proportions to help develop your drawing skills...

My best drawing techniques for beginner drawing and drawing from life - step-by-step guidance - follow along with me as we learn to draw together...

In this earlier blog post, we looked for simple shapes in our drawing to get us started. This is a fantastic drawing technique that you can use when you’re drawing absolutely anything…

But not everything we want to draw is as simple as a single leaf and sometimes we need to use additional techniques to help us draw more complex things.

We’ll start looking at these here…

Have you ever seen artists holding a pen or pencil up at arm’s length when they’re drawing something?