Learn to Draw

Drawing exercises, tutorials and how-tos for beginners and experts

This is the process by which you can learn to draw on DrawTut. We’ll start with the basics and work our way through the different drawing categories. You will first learn the basic shapes from which all images are built. Afterwards, we move on to perspective drawing. Then it’s about learning how to draw people and animals. And in the last step you learn to paint the surroundings, that is, landscapes or backgrounds.

Basics for future draftsmen

In this step you will learn creative thinking and how to develop it. Here we give you some tips and techniques you can use every day to help you build the foundation for your creativity.

Here we show you some sources for your inspiration. Here you can get new ideas every day and then use them in your artwork. Besides blogs, we also recommend some social networks.

An overview of potential drawing tools and how to use them. Here is also a rough overview of the costs for the individual utensils and in what range they can be.

An overview of the individual drawing steps and how they can evolve into other styles through the drawing process as well. Additionally there is a small overview of possible drawing styles.

In this step you will learn creative thinking and how to develop it. Here we give you some tips and techniques you can use every day to help you build the foundation for your creativity.

Basic techniques to learn drawing

This session is about learning the basic forms that you should master before moving on to the other techniques. Without a straight line or circle, you will find the following courses rather difficult.

In order to learn to draw a drawing plastically and as realistically as possible, you must first learn to draw different objects three-dimensionally. In this short you will learn to draw many types of objects in 3D.

Hatching is used in a drawing to define dark and light areas. In this course you will learn all the possibilities of hatching individual areas in an image and use them yourself with several exercises.

Light and shadow give a picture its depth and make it more realistic the more detailed they become. Therefore, in this course you will learn what types of light exist and how to draw them.

Perspective drawing is a basic requirement for a realistic-looking image. The basics of the different perspectives are covered here. In several exercises you will learn all perspective shapes.

The easiest way to learn drawing is to draw pictures. Here you will be shown the different techniques you can use to trace or trace an image.

Sketches

An overview of sketches and the different types of sketches. The basics of sketching are explained here, as well as different types of sketches, such as croquis, porchade, and portrait sketches. All other types are also introduced.

Overview of the different sketchbooks, their bindings and possible uses. Tips for everyday life and which sketchbook is the most suitable for your own use. Recommendation for the right choice.

Draw people

1. Body modeling

Currently in progress.

2. Body pose

3. Gender differences

4. Body shapes

Drawing Animals

Draw environment

From 3 years it starts to get interesting, because here a child should start drawing in shapes (lines, circles, etc.). This is exactly the type of exercise we want to provide in this area.

From the age of 4, children begin to master shapes (circles, rectangles, triangles, etc.), making more complex pictures possible. And exactly for this purpose we have developed more small exercises.

Complete courses with tutorials, ebooks and videos to learn to draw