Category: Beginners Digital Drawing

Free Udemy courses available for you to get better in your digital drawing with Paintology

There are a number of free courses that we have put on Udemy for you to try. They are structured courses that will help you to get better with your digital drawing and drawing in general. The subjects cover important information on understanding tones, color values with interesting subjects such as animals, portraits, landscapes etc. Read More

Join Google Classroom!

We are very excited to bring you google classroom where you can learn at you own pace with a qualified instructor of Paintology! Before you can join the class, you will need to join the classroom with a class code. First go to classroom.google.com where you will be asked to sign in to your gmail Read More

Draw a color portrait of Will Smith using the Paintology app

Portrait drawing is a huge field and something many artists do using a variety of mediums such as acrylics, pastels, pencils, charcoal etc. In this example, I am going to show you the method of digital drawing with just your android phone or tablet and using the app called Paintology available from the Google play Read More

Left hand drawing challenge – So you think you can’t draw!

I don’t claim to be an avid artist but I like to delve into a good drawing whenever I get the chance. There was a time in my life when my drawing skills remained dormant for decades until for some reason, my creative spark came back. Before this time, I would try to get back Read More

Weekly Cash Prizes Competition Details!

Hello Paintology Users, Here you will find more information regarding our weekly competition. For a quick guide to our competition, you can go and visit the page here. We will add the winners information on this page weekly and since we only just started this February 2020, we have left space for the lucky winners! Read More

So you think you can’t draw! Try again.

Many folks are defeated by the idea of drawing even before they start. Little do they know that they are missing out on one of the largest pastime in the world. There is a good reason why many people pursue the art of painting and drawing and it does not always stem from ability. In Read More

Beginners Digital Painting Course – Lesson 1

Before we embark on the first lesson, I would recommend that you use a pen rather than your finger as it will allow you more precise control over the drawing area than just using your finger. You can get hold of a stylus for your phone or tablet by visiting your nearest phone or electronics store.

A Brief Introduction to Painting & Drawing for Beginners

If you have never done any drawing or painting before, this is a good place to start. The first thing you need to do is get any thoughts out of your head that says ‘you can’t draw’ and replace it with a good dose of enthusiasm and passion. Like any other hobbies, all it takes is a bit of confidence, lots of enthusiasm and plenty of practice.

Beginners Digital Painting Course – Lesson 3

For this lesson, I have picked up a painting (fig. 1) that will teach you some of the intricacies of what constitutes a landscape and should enable you to create better landscape paintings.

Beginners Digital Painting Course – Lesson 2

We will create a composition with some more details in this beginners course, lesson 2, please see fig. lesson-2-original. What we are going to learn from this exercise is to create more details by having the subject matter closer to the viewer.