Sandra gives a review of her new Aolvo glass dip pen for drawing. In her demonstration she is impressed by how much ink this beautiful glass dip pen with hold.

Sandra demonstrates how to draw hands using continuous line drawing. A continuous line drawing forces you to look for shapes and consider where to place your next line. Drawing hands is great practice as you can form your hands into so many different positions.  We...

Today we talk about using non-traditional drawing tools for making interesting marks in your art. Tara shows a couple of the things she has found around the house to draw with and Sandra visits the woods near her home to see what potential drawing tools she can find....

In this video, Sandra talks about her new Sailor Fountain Pen and the Differences between the Sailor Fountain Pen and Lamy Safari Fountain Pen for drawing. The Sailor fountain pen has a very different nib to the Lamy Safari. Although Sandra still loves her Lamy Safari...

In this video, Sandra creates a sketch of a woman using a variety of pens which make different marks. After an initial sketch using a mechanical pencil, she creates the drawing outline using a Lamy Safari Fountain Pen with Noodlers Bulletproof ink....

In this video, Tara shows you how you can use a distortion app to distort a face. This can then be the inspiration for a semi-abstract face drawing. Of course, you could also use an app to distort other things like street scenes or images of animals that you could...

Sandra demonstrates how to draw a face using a waterproof pen, brush ink and water. She starts with a waterproof Fineline pen to draw the basic shapes. Then to add shading and the hair she uses brushes with Quink Ink. https://youtu.be/x7APoM5a08o She is using a...

In this video, we show you how you can draw cartoon faces using a reference photo as a starting point. First, we show a very simple cartoon face that even a complete beginner can draw by using a few simple shapes. A simple cartoon face like this can be used to create...

This is a video round-up of our sketching day in London recently. https://youtu.be/ZpHvja0M-MQ We both love sketching people from life and there were plenty to practice. We started sketching in Covent Garden, then on the Embankment to draw people outside at the food...

In this drawing tutorial, we show beginner artists how to draw the ear in a really simple way. We start by showing some quick and easy ear sketches using a pen and a water brush. This gives a nice soft shading effect to the ear sketches. In the next drawing, we draw a...