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Expressive drawing means being more YOU…
It means letting your thoughts and feelings show up in your drawing as part of your art. It’s all about looking, feeling and being creative… but where to start with this? The objective of this drawing lesson is to understand how to put your own expression and personality into your art. In this section, we’re looking more at our personal self-expression in our art... We’ll be building on what we thought about in the previous post about collecting personal and meaningful drawing inspiration from nature… As well as our thoughts about what art is and why our self-expression in art matters. 
Using light and shade helps give form or 'volume' to your drawing
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...  Learn to draw in 2021! I have lots of drawing resources right here that can help you...
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. 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. 
Learn essential pencil drawing techniques
How to use being mindful in nature to collect meaningful and personal inspiration for your expressive art drawings…
Taking time out for art, being mindful in nature, and bringing that back to our creativity…
Inspiration from nature
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!
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... 
Learn to draw accurately - measure angles and draw proportions correctly
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?
Why keep an art sketchbook?
Whether you’re feeling inspired to draw, draw, draw… or have been told to start a sketchbook habit, here we take a look at some reasons why you might keep a sketchbook and think about what format that sketchbook might take… Your sketchbook is there to serve you so use it in the way that’s most useful for you personally! How do you feel about the idea of keeping a sketchbook? Is it something you’re keen to get started doing? Or do you feel you ‘should’ keep an art sketchbook? Perhaps you searched online for sketchbook ideas and now feel intimidated by the perfectly-coiffured sketchbook pages gracing Instagram and Pinterest? Yep! Me too! 
Your sketchbook is there to serve you
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