Draw pictures, show them to your friends
Open Peeps, Hand-Drawn Illustration Library
Open Peeps is a hand-drawn illustration library to create scenes of people. You can use them in product illustration, marketing, comics, product states, user flows, personas, storyboarding, quinceañera invitations, or whatever you want! ⠀
Cultivating Visual Literacy: A Play-Based Approach to Drawing Education for Young Children
This paper introduces a novel, play-based method for teaching drawing to young children, emphasising observation, creativity, and the development of visual literacy. The method, refined through years of practical testing with the author's children, moves beyond rote copying and focuses on engaging parents in the learning process. It leverages fun, interactive exercises designed to enhance spatial reasoning, attention to detail, and an appreciation for artistic expression while fostering the understanding of drawing as a natural form of expression alongside language and mathematics, helping children develop a confident, lifelong relationship with visual communication that transcends common perceptions of drawing as an intimidating or exclusively talent-based skill. This paper also presents a literature review on early childhood art education and highlights the importance of drawing as a fundamental cognitive skill.
Pictosky ✦ Retro Drawing for Bluesky
Draw on a vintage-style canvas and publish your masterpieces directly to your Bluesky feed!
PIXEL ART: COMMON MISTAKES
We've all been there: you learn a few things and it all seems so simple, but when it comes time to make something yourself, it doesn't look right! In this tutorial, we'll start with some "beginner's pixel art" and we'll make edits to it in order to show off some common mistakes and their solutions. One of the hardest parts of making art is self-critique - we're often too close to our art to look at it objectively. Asking other artists to edit your work by way of feedback can be a great way to illuminate problems that you may not see. (But keep in mind that it's considered rude to create an edit of someone's work unless they specifically asked for one.)
How Sketching Helps Me Develop Ideas
Sketching isn’t about perfection—it’s about thinking through ideas and making them easier to share.
Pixel Joint Forum: The Pixel Art Tutorial
Umoupen — Animate and Draw
Animation and drawing software for artists on Windows and macOS.
Drawabox | A free, exercise based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing
A free, exercise based approach to learning the fundamentals of drawing. We tackle drawing in a logical, analytical fashion inspired by concept artists and industrial designers, focusing on technical skills that can be developed with hard work and determination.
