Joan Tasca contemplated a skull while standing on the outdoor stage at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. She wasn't performing an avante garde version of “Hamlet” and the skull's name was George, ...

What do architectural drawings do? Convey visual information about the design of buildings. This much is certain. They do much else besides. They can be idiomatic and ideological, they can express the ...

Ellipses and cylinders are foundational to drawing forms in perspective. This short shares a practical method to improve accuracy, consistency, and confidence when drawing rounded forms—making complex ...

“Any one who can learn to write, can learn to draw,” John Gadsby Chapman wrote in his 19th-century instruction manual, “The American Drawing-Book.” This can-do sentiment dates back to an era when lead ...

Sketching is a form of visual thinking that exercises the mind and body, and it’s easy to turn your tablet into a portable art studio. By J. D. Biersdorfer “Any one who can learn to write, can learn ...