If you want to know more about drawing with pen and why you should DEFINITELY draw with pen, check out my personal blog: https://www.damianosborne.com/pen-drawing-challenge Read also more about the behind-the-scenes artistic and personal challenges during this 21 day pen drawing challenge. Drawing an old pile of books helps to practice 2-point perspective and to draw simple structures. Pen drawing still life is a great drawing exercise for beginner artists. It also helps professional artists keep their artistic skills sharp. Daily quick sketch practice for artists getting through the lockdown period. How to get through 21 days of lockdown? Start an art challenge! It doesn't matter what you draw. Starting a sketchbook journal is a healthy way to stay sane. Daily quick sketching is also the best way to sharpen your art skills. I hope you find some pen drawing inspiration for your sketchbook here. Try find something in your home that you can draw from life. You'll be surprised. I kept this video relatively short, so please check out my website if you would like to learn more stuff: https://www.damianosborne.com/ Click here to Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV4v7yUIsuAhWat8brdxZ2w?sub_confirmation=1 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuTZ8WUtf6w

Check out https://www.damianosborne.com/making-your-own-canvas-panels-for-oil-painting Making your own canvas panels is a great cost-saver when it comes to being a painter. This is how I make mine with my own homemade gesso primer. Before the invention of oil painting on sailcloth canvas, artists during and before the Renaissance Period commonly painted on solid wooden panels. These were carefully selected pieces of hardwood, and painstakingly sized with hide glues and primed with gypsum or lead-based primers, in preparation for egg tempera or oil painting. Today, making your own canvas panels for oil painting (or acrylic) is so easy to do.  Read more at https://www.damianosborne.com/making-your-own-canvas-panels-for-oil-painting and visit my site to read about how canvas vs rigid support for oil painting. I kept this video relatively short, so please check out my website if you would like to learn more stuff: https://www.damianosborne.com/ Click here to Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV4v7yUIsuAhWat8brdxZ2w?sub_confirmation=1 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS3UrVc2zzs

A fruit sketch in pen. Drawing the symmetry of the bowl is the most difficult part. Totally botched that! Read more about the behind-the-scenes artistic and personal challenges during this 21 day pen drawing challenge: https://www.damianosborne.com/pen-drawing-challenge.html Pen drawing still life is a great drawing exercise for beginner artists. It also helps professional artists keep their artistic skills sharp. Daily quick sketch practice for artists getting through the lockdown period. How to get through 21 days of lockdown? Start an art challenge! It doesn't matter what you draw. Starting a sketchbook journal is a healthy way to stay sane. Daily quick sketching is also the best way to sharpen your art skills. I hope you find some pen drawing inspiration for your sketchbook here. Try find something in your home that you can draw from life. You'll be surprised. I kept this video relatively short, so please check out my website if you would like to learn more stuff: https://www.damianosborne.com/ Click here to Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV4v7yUIsuAhWat8brdxZ2w?sub_confirmation=1 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJwiAse7Qg

Please check out: https://www.damianosborne.com/painting-the-skin-tone-painting-the-figure-part-3 for more detailed information about the oil painting process I used in this video, particularly scumbling and glazing in oil paint, and the pigments for painting the skin tone. There's more in-depth info on my blog not included in this video. Painting the skin tone in oils shows figure painting in the classical technique of the Venetian and Flemish Old Masters. In this video, I am painting the second layer, or the overpainting layer. I use mostly scumbling oil painting techniques for painting the flesh tones. By painting in layers, the artist is able to achieve a more realistic painting. This traditional overpainting layer in oils can be slowly build up in many painting sessions to create beautiful skin tones. It is also easier to control your values, contrast and colour temperatures with a more limited palette per painting session. I kept this video relatively short, so please check out my website if you would like to learn more stuff: https://www.damianosborne.com/ My Sirens Series: https://www.damianosborne.com/art/the-sirens Click here to Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV4v7yUIsuAhWat8brdxZ2w?sub_confirmation=1 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVgT8hjtaks