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Bonny Snowdon Academy
Bonny Snowdon Academy publishes drawing tips and tutorials aimed at people learning to draw.
Why it is here: Drawing tips that help beginners practise fundamentals.
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John Muir Laws
John Muir Laws is a naturalist and artist whose blog covers nature journaling, drawing and observing wildlife.
Why it is here: Drawing and sketching from nature, helpful for building observation skills.
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Gurney Journey
Gurney Journey is a daily weblog by Dinotopia creator James Gurney for illustrators, plein-air painters, sketchers and comic artists.
Why it is here: Painting and illustration craft from a working illustrator, widely useful for drawing practice.
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Lines and Colors
Lines and Colors is a blog about drawing, painting and illustration art, with posts on artists and techniques.
Why it is here: Art-focused blog posts for people who like to study drawing and painting.
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Seeing.Thinking.Drawing
Seeing.Thinking.Drawing is a blog of drawing thoughts and observations, kept as a sketching practice.
Why it is here: Observational drawing and reflections on the practice of drawing.
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AnimeOutline
AnimeOutline is a blog of step by step anime and manga drawing tutorials, with advice on anime-related topics.
Why it is here: Step-by-step manga drawing tutorials for beginners.
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Marc Dalessio
Marc Dalessio is a plein air landscape painter and portrait artist whose site shows paintings, musings on art and tips.
Why it is here: Plein air painting examples and teaching tips from a working painter.
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Mitchell Albala
Mitchell Albala is a painter and author whose blog covers the essential concepts of landscape painting.
Why it is here: Landscape painting concepts such as value, colour and composition explained for painters.
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Michael Chesley Johnson
Painting to See is the blog of painter Michael Chesley Johnson on plein air painting, with tips and research.
Why it is here: Plein air painting tips from a practising painter.
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Every Person In New York
Every Person In New York is a drawing project documenting people in New York through sketches.
Why it is here: Quick sketching of people, an example of drawing as daily observation.
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Carol Marine's Painting a Day
Carol Marine's Painting a Day is a blog of small paintings in oil, posted as a daily painting practice.
Why it is here: Daily small oil paintings that show the habit of painting regularly.
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Drawing Blog by Garry Barker
Drawing Blog by Garry Barker covers drawing, drawing philosophy, and drawing and art education.
Why it is here: Teaching-minded writing about drawing and how to approach it.
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How to Pastel
How to Pastel is a blog for soft pastel artists, with advice and lessons for improving pastel paintings.
Why it is here: Soft pastel instruction for artists working in that medium.
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Painting My World
Painting My World is a daily painting blog by Karen Margulis, featuring regular small paintings.
Why it is here: Daily paintings that show a regular practice and finished small works.
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Rita Kirkman's Daily Paintings
Rita Kirkman's Daily Paintings is a blog of almost-daily pastel and oil paintings, with occasional drawings.
Why it is here: Regular pastel and oil paintings that show an artist's ongoing practice.
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Rob Adams
Rob Adams a Painter's Blog is a painter's blog documenting the progress of his paintings.
Why it is here: A painter's working process, shared as paintings come together.
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