How to Make Money Drawing For Fun
What are you doing right now (besides reading this article, obviously)? Take a look around your desk. Do you have scraps of paper — a notebook, maybe — with little drawings floating around the page? What if I told you that you could make money by…
5 Drawing Exercises That Will Turn Anyone Into An Artist
The post was authored by Emily Potts with contributions from Whitney Sherman. Whitney Sherman is an award-winning illustrator and director of the MFA in Illustration Practice at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is also author of Playing with Sketches, 50 creative exercises for designers and artists (Rockport Publishers)….
Drawing for Graphic Design: 6 Exercises to Sharpen Your Skills
When talking about drawing for graphic design projects, we’re very often talking about a digital process. We’re so used to sitting in front of our computers, plugging away at pixels in Photoshop and Illustrator, that we sometimes forget to step away, grab a pen or…
Staff Picks: Some of Brooks’ Favorite Design Classes
Every now and then, I have a little conversation with myself about how the past week/month/year has gone. I think about the things I set out to do and wonder if I’ve done them. I compare my accomplishments to those of the people around me (even though I know I…
Homemade Drawing Idea Generator: Weekly Project #8 with Brooks Chambers
Every week, we bring you a project idea video to help you maintain a habit of making cool stuff. Want to jumpstart your creative habit? Sign up for 28 to Make (it’s free) and you’ll get a quick project idea in your inbox every day for…
Daily Drawing Themes: Weekly Project #7 with Brooks Chambers
Every week, we bring you a project idea video to help you maintain a habit of making cool stuff. Want to jumpstart your creative habit? Sign up for 28 to Make (it’s free) and you’ll get a quick project idea in your inbox every day for…
Draw What You’re Drinking: Weekly Project Idea #4 with Kate Bingaman-Burt
Every week, we bring you a project idea to help you maintain a habit of making cool stuff. Want to jumpstart your creative habit? Sign up for 28 to Make (it’s free) and you’ll get a quick project idea in your inbox every day for…
5 Drawing Books for People Who Don’t (Necessarily) Draw
It’s that time of year when it starts to get dark at 4:00 p.m., and the thought of starting a new project is more likely to incite a yawn than enthusiasm. Sometimes we just need a kick in the pants—or in this case, a good…
Cultivating Creativity: Inside Kate Bingaman-Burt’s Studio
Kate Bingaman-Burt is a busy woman. She’s written books on our culture’s consumption obsession, she teaches design at Portland State University, and she creates compelling designs for a steady list of clients including Chipotle, Hallmark, Uniglo, IDEO, VH1, and the Gap, among others. We recently visited…
5 Drawing Exercises To Learn How To Draw Perspective
Jorge Paricio is an adjunct professor of Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and author of Perspective Sketching, Freehand and Digital Drawing Techniques for Artists & Designers by Rockport Publishers. “Industrial design sketching is a crucial part of developing a concept…
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