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YouTube Live Streams – Drawing with Paintology!

Daily Livestream video tutorials on YouTube! I am proud to announce that the daily live streams of drawing tutorials with the Paintology app is becoming hugely popular! You can visit the following page for more info… Paintology has been acquiring interest from around the world where budding artists are waking up to the potential of Read More

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The Process of Drawing – Learn the Fundamentals

Most beginners in drawing and painting miss essential points with regards to learning how to draw. Also the material mentioned in this post are not mentioned in drawing books or online drawing courses. This post will be ideal for beginners and advanced artists who want to become more comfortable with the drawing journey. Comfort means Read More

Photorealism drawing in digital, the easy way!

Photorealism is a form of art that has won a lot of fans over the last few decades. Most of the photo realistic art is confined to the traditional mediums and there is little that can be found in the digital medium. Most of the artwork in the digital medium ultimately appears animated and computer Read More

ChatGPT on Photorealism in the Digital Medium

I wanted to find out what all the fuss was about the ChatGPT AI (artificial intelligent chat bot) that everyone has been talking about. Out of interest, I have submitted some questions through the ChatGPT and was impressed by it’s immersive and detailed responses to the questions. It was almost like talking to a professor Read More

Why do traditional and digital artists not see eye to eye.

There is no denying that when it comes to creating art with traditional materials such as brushes and paints as opposed to digital art, the two do not see eye to eye. I have been trying to find answers to these questions with regards to the way I draw and paint in both mediums. I Read More

The three traits (DPD) of mastering art skills

Why is it that many adults find it hard to draw! Drawing is a much loved hobby throughout the world and enjoyed by many at any age, young or old. Sadly, many miss out on this intensely gratifying pastime, thinking that you have either got it or you haven’t.Many adults reflect back to their childhood Read More

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Digital Drawing & Painting – The Forgotten Skills

Introduction: This paper is a continuation of the blog post that you can find here… The digital art medium has exploded in the last ten years with the introduction of the tablets from the Google Android and Apple platforms. An abundance of drawing apps now available from these platforms have allowed many people to get Read More

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Why you don’t need Procreate to draw well!

I recently posted a video on the ferdouse youtube channel on the topic of digital drawing apps and the abundance of digital tools that now many apps adorn. You can also watch this video below. The reason for posting such a video was due to the fact that many choose to do digital drawing using Read More

The Art of Digital Painting

Many people engaged in art are all too familiar with the traditional media These include physical media such as acrylics, oils, watercolors, pencils, pastels and much more My favorite water based medium is acrylics since it has the vibrancy of colors, consistency for using brushes and palette knives as well as a fast drying time. Read More

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Art & Poetry

I have recently got into poetry, and it came to me in the most random way possible. Lying in bed recovering from a bad cold, I was trying to keep my mind occupied with things to do. I started looking into poetry and came across a site that broke down and explained some popular poems Read More

The Fundamentals of Drawing & Painting

There is a lot of confusion of what exactly are fundamentals in drawing and painting. The actual concept is easier to understand if you understand the usage in other subjects such as maths as an example. We know that fundamentals are required in maths in order to understand the derivation of a maths problem. The Read More

Paint by Numbers on your Phone!

Paint by Numbers App over 300 Drawings! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paintology.lite.paint.by.number Paint by numbers or painting by numbers is a very popular hobby amongst people who want to get into drawing and painting. The paint by numbers kit that you get in hobby stores comes in the form of a numbered canvas and pots of paints with brushes. Read More

Beginners Guide to Digital Painting & Drawing with Paintology

If you are new or an avid user of the Paintology drawing app available for your Android phones and tablets, you will find this post very instructive. Digital drawing & painting is not as hard as many people make it out to be. This is partly due to the many apps and software supporting drawing Read More

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Breaking down the Six Myths of Digital Drawing

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paintology.lite Digital drawing has been with us for over several decades since the invention of the IBM PC back in 1985. People were quick to see the value of digital artwork using the PC digital medium. As a result, early drawings were produced using this medium and they were crude but nevertheless opened the gates Read More

How to make Unique Digital Paintings from Grand Masters

In this detailed tutorial, I discuss a new approach to creating unique digital paintings from an old grand master painting. In this example, I take the work of Monet and apply the block method of creating the reference painting and then using our own skills to create a new twist to the painting. The block Read More

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Portrait drawing approaches of Chadwick Boseman

You may have read some of the techniques developed on the Paintology app, namely the block coloring method to drawing. This involves making small blocks of color of an underlying image that you want to draw and doing this repeatedly until you complete the drawing. You can find more information from the post below. We Read More

Is there a Bob Ross for Digital Painting?

I was intrigued by this question on Quora and it motivated me to write the article on this Paintology site. You can read my recent short response to this Quora question below and click on the image below to go there directly. Before I dive more deep into this subject of digital painting and drawing Read More

Learn to draw an outline / Improve drawing with Paintology

Drawing an outline in a drawing is an essential step to mastering drawing skills in all mediums. Oil painters often use this to provide the base for laying down the paints and is also important for portrait drawing & painting. Proportions, form and perspectives are all important to enhance the final drawing or painting and Read More

Creative ways to draw with the Paintology App – Further study of the Block Coloring method.

I was thinking about extending the ‘block coloring’ method that I came across in my previous drawing of a great master painting using the Paintology app. Below is the final drawing of John Constable’s the Hay Wain Old that I did on my Samsung s6 tablet with a stylus. John Constable the Hay Wain Old: Read More

Recording video of your Drawings & Painting on your Phones or Tablets (Android)

One of the important skills in developing your artwork is to be able to go back to the work and assess how you did this. This not only helps you get better but can also help many others like YouTubers to improve their drawing and painting skills too. I have been using the Paintology app Read More