sketching – Derwent Blog

Start your drawing journey with Jake Spicer

If you’ve never drawn before, or if you just want to start at the beginning, then start here. […] These[…]

For a portrait artist, achieving a likeness to a reference (either through a primary i.e. life model or secondary source[…]

We asked Nicolien Beerens to tell us more about miniature portraiture and how she started creating small scale drawings. In[…]

Graham Bradshaw returns with series 3 of his Top Tips. Here, he runs through ideas for keeping your work clean[…]

Over the coming weeks, photorealistic pencil artist Graham Bradshaw will be bringing you some top tips for drawing! Today Graham[…]

Our next featured artist is Alexis Marcou. Alexis graduated from the University of Plymouth & since then has illustrated for[…]

Val Webb takes us through an illustrated guide to drawing eyes – let us know what you think! Eyes are[…]

Keith McMean, watercolour artist tells us about the importance of sketching. This is the first blog post I have written[…]

Thanks to Facebook we found an amazing artist who really astounded us with his skill at photo-realistic pencil drawing. We[…]

Bridge and Brook Here’s a great tutorial on how to draw a lovely bridge and brook using a variety of[…]