Are you ready to Draw It Now?

If you’ve made it here then it’s safe to assume that drawing it now is exactly what you would like to do.

But if you’re like I was when I started searching for the how-to websites, I had no problem finding those sites. But what I wanted just wasn’t there. Or it was obvious that all they wanted was to put up a site for money. The instructions just weren’t any good.

I wanted a site that provided as much how-to instruction as a book. I wanted a site that provided every pencil art subject that I desired to learn.

Well congratulations! You just found the site that I always wanted to find!

So maybe you call your art sketching,or pencil sketches, or you just like to wile away your time making sketches,,,, the point is I think there is something here for you!

The perfect place to start is with the link Drawing Basics in the left column. It will take you to a page with a selection of sketching exercises. These exercises include the 3D ball exercise, a cone, a cylinder, as well as lessons in shading and blending.

Next I would suggest the link Drawing Tutorials. This link will open a page that has exercises that cover such subjects as the eye, the ears, the nose, the mouth, in general the items that make up the human face. The subjects were covered on an individual basis so you could build an understanding of each subject.

These two pages were designed in such a way as to introduce you to the basic steps to get you started in portraits.

The other pages that will show up here as they evolve(the site is always under construction) will cover different aspects of pencil art. Things such as perspective, proportion, and processes. So keep checking in!

So let’s get started. The title of this site was chosen for a reason. You can draw a ball right now.
You’ll be amazed to see just how easy it can be.

Just click on the 3D Ball link below and I'll show you how .

3D Shaded and Blended Ball

Drawing Basics You Can Do Now. Drawing basics are hard to find in one spot, that's why I put all of them here.

Drawing tutorials of the eyes, facial hair, ears, nose, and mouth! Basic drawing tutorials that cover mostly the features of the human head.

3D Pencil Ball Drawing is the Best Place to Start Why is pencil ball drawing the first thing to learn to draw? There are a multitude of tricks to be learned about a ball. Let me show you.

Draw It Now Blog Up to date feed on what's new at Draw-It-Now.net

Blending it all together! Blending a graphite drawing will give your drawing a new level of detail. So grab a tortillion or a felt stump and let's give some detail to your next piece of art.

Shading techniques are one of the most important things to learn when learning to draw. So why learn shading techniques? Because without shading in a drawing, all you have is a cartoon.

Eye drawing learning tutorial. The A, B, C's of eye drawing, how to draw an eye that looks like your image source.

An easy tutorial on drawing realistic human hair. #1 An easy tutorial on drawing realistic human hair. Are you wanting to learn how to draw hair? Then this is a great tutorial for you. It covers white hair, curly hair, and of course it's human hair. This is the first page of the tutorial.

An easy tutorial on drawing realistic human hair. #2 Are you wanting to learn how to draw hair? Then this is a great tutorial for you. It covers white hair, curly hair, and of course it's human hair. This is the second lesson of the tutorial.

An easy tutorial on drawing realistic human hair. #3 Are you wanting to learn how to draw hair? Then this is a great tutorial for you. It covers white hair, curly hair, and of course it's human hair. This is the third lesson of the tutorial.

An easy tutorial on drawing realistic human hair. #4 Are you wanting to learn how to draw hair? Then this is a great tutorial for you. It covers white hair, curly hair, and of course it covers drawing human hair. This is our fourth lesson.

Drawing eggs? Why not? It's just a ball with a different curve! How to draw eggs, drawings eggs will take you one step closer to being able to draw the human face!

Drawing cylinders to improve your shading and blending. Drawing cylinders is almost just like drawing the shaded ball. But we add two new elements, hard lines and soft lines.

3D Cone Drawing Cone drawing is the last of the basic exercises in our drawing lessons.

Drawing the iris, showing color with graphite. Drawing the iris if part of drawing the eye and if the eyes are not correct, the drawing will not be effective. Therefore I draw the eyes first, because if they don't work the drawing won't work.

Drawing the eyebrow so that it looks 3-D. When drawing the eyebrow, we want to see hair that is full of volume. Not something that looks like we cut it out of a magazine and pasted it on!

Drawing the nose, impossible? Nope! Drawing the nose is just like drawing the egg and the ball; it is all in the shapes.

Drawing ears is a great way to continue the study of the ball, the egg, and the cylinder. When drawing ears we can study all about dark shadows and cast shadows, as well as hard edges. The ear has a good variety of hard and soft edges.

Drawing the mouth that pops! Drawing the mouth so it has that 3D quality.

A little about me. A little description of why I built Draw-It-Now.

The drawing materials that I use the most. A look at my drawing materials.

Art Materials An art materials list of things I use.

Portrait Sketch Gallery Portrait sketch gallery of my work.

Perspective drawing, a simple explanation. A simple explanation of what perspective is in a perspective drawing.

One point perspective could be called the starting point of a convincing 3D draw A simple explanation of one point perspective for the beginning artist.