Steve Huston Draws From Life

Explaining the Three Pillars of Art and How To Aim For World Class

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Look at some favorite OLD MASTERWORKS, study a few pieces and carefully look, and ask...

What were the choices these folks made that  allow me to recognize their work -- t...

Using the Strategies of the Landscape Artist in Figure Drawing

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Aerial Perspective is letting the retreating background effect the value (and the color) of the advancing foreground.

Using the reference provided, practice "value coding...

Style Is A Matter Of Mindset

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Art is at it's how showing us how the separate connects. In our neck of the woods, we call it composition.

Decide to look for beauty 2 0ro3 times today. Beauty only happens when one or more co...

The Power of Simplicity: The 2-Value System

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Start with a simple still life object like an egg or coffee cup, or a single jointed part from the figure.

Draw the simple shape or shapes of the form. Then add a shape of shadow on the from. Let the w...

Color Harmony and Connective Strategies in General

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Color harmony just means the colors have something in common.

Practice making two (and then later 3 or four) colors move towards each other by adding a little bit of the one into the second.&nb...

Aligning Our Art Practice With Our Goals And Our Life

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Look at a beautifully rendered from the reference photos and/or the old masterworks provided and draw a Big and Simple structure one of the body parts. 

Do that for as many parts as you...

How To Draw Convincing Shoulders

Draw the shoulders as a corner to the Arms. That's the simplest way to attach them. And to make it an even simpler practice session, only draw a simple ribcage construction.

Now redraw the ribcage and the shoulders as corners to t...