A student works on a drawing exercise during the "Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner" course on Oct. 2, 2018, at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, Connecticut.

This image features drawing exercises and stylized portrait art with material texture. The left section compares two shading methods with a “don’t vs do” example using green tones. In the center is a ...

Drawing is hard. Even after a lesson with a New Yorker cartoonist, I get spooked by the simplest drawing exercises. If you’re also easily scared off, but you want to get better, try these basic ...

Many beginner artists naturally find themselves drawing from their wrist. After all, that's how we write. But we tend to write in a relatively small size and move across the page in lines.

Boston Center For Adult Education 122 Arlington St. Boston, MA 02116 (617) 267-4430 www.bcae.org It is never too late to learn how to draw, which is why the Boston Center for Adult Education ...