Art techniques: top tutorials for painting and drawing

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Part of honing your skills as an artist involves learning how to draw the world around you: animals, people, landscapes and so on. The other part involves getting to grips with art techniques – mastering composition, light, shadow and so on. 

Creative Bloq regularly invites the industry's most exciting artists to share their best pro drawing techniques here on the site. Elsewhere, you'll find our favourite Photoshop tutorials, Illustrator tutorials and vector art tutorials, as well as painting tips and more.

In this article, we bring together a host of fantastic tutorials to help you add more pro art techniques to your creative arsenal – whether you're looking to improve your sketching skills, learn how to add perspective or capture movement. You'll be able to explore some different styles, as well. 

You'll find a mixture of traditional and digital tutorials below. Regardless of media, each one provides insight into a wide range of different art techniques that can be applied to any art project – so dive in.

01. Sketching techniques

02. Composition techniques

03. Light and shadow

04. Practical effects

05. Workflow and inspiration

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