Drawing hands can feel daunting, but the key is to break down their complexity into simple, repeatable rules. Whether you're sketching from a model or straight from your imagination, understanding ...

Snow Bear is a beautifully crafted hand-drawn animated short from Oscar-nominated director Aaron Blaise , and it tells a simple but emotional story about loneliness, rejection, and unexpected ...

Hello Everyone! My name is Aaron Blaise and I’ve been an animator, wildlife artist and animation feature film director for the past 30 years. I’m also an art educator and run a website called ...

So this is what happens when two wild animals encounter each other. Soft Animals is an animated short made by filmmaker Renee Zhan. It's online to watch after showing at festivals 2021. Zhan's intro ...

Drawing Animals Through Hand Shapes!!

New radiometric dating identifies the oldest known figurative drawing—not a stenciled outline of a hand or an abstract design, but an actual attempt to depict a real object in an image. As far as we ...

Scientific manuscripts are full of images. Since the birth of the life sciences, these images were in a form of hand drawings, with great examples from da Vinci, Hooke, van Leeuwenhoek, Remak, Buffon, ...

I’m not good at drawing. In fact, I’m positively dreadful. A few years ago, I took a watercolor class. My mother would have been proud of what I did—if I were still in the third grade, not a late ...