Our Daily Life Drawing Sessions are free timed reference videos that allows artists to practice figure drawing from images of life models. Now, we’ve taken this popular resource and put a new twist on them — demonstrations from your New Masters Academy instructors! In this first installment in the series, master artist Steve Huston draws along with you, working from Daily Life Drawing Sessions #1 through #5. Steve shares his thoughts on these poses and shows how the fundamentals of gesture and structure apply equally from medium to medium. To maximize your learning experience, we encourage you to work from the drawings sessions yourself first so that you can compare your drawing decisions with those of Steve.
In this video lesson world-renowned painter Steve Huston will cover the outdoor color theory of the impressionist painters. Steve will explore the techniques and theories that made these painters famous and distill the essentials that you need to understand in order to apply this theory to your own work.
In this video lesson, world-renowned artist Steve Huston provides you with an introduction to the world of art, and art theory. Throughout his lecture, Steve explores art as an idea, tool, concept, and a way of life. Steve shares his perspective on topics such as finding your creative intent, understanding art as a technical craft, finding an approach that works for you, using your art to create a connection with your audience, establishing deeper meaning in your work, and obtaining originality. Steve also analyzes famous works that illustrate the concepts he covers in the lecture.
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In this lesson world-renowned painter Steve Huston demonstrates practical approaches to paint the head, with an emphasis on solid three-dimensional structure. You will learn how to construct basic three-dimensional volumes with correct proportions and in correct perspective and how to paint the features of the face into those constructions. Steve will also show you different characteristic shapes and volumes which can be used in your head paintings.
In this series, master artist Steve Huston brings you his highly-anticipated advanced head drawing lessons. This second lesson in the series will cover the often subtle differences between the head and facial features of males and females. Steve begins at the lecture board, utilizing a set of skulls to elucidate the structural changes in head shape. With a foundational understanding of the varying “landscape” of the head, you can accentuate your characters’ features to portray them as more masculine or feminine. Steve will do several demonstrations working from photo references, which you can find attached to this page.