A black cat is the easiest Halloween subject to draw and the easiest one to ruin, and both happen for the same reason. Somebody in a comment last October told me her cat looked like a black blob....
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How to Draw a Scary Eyeball: Easy Creepy Halloween Drawing Tutorial
Every scary eyeball I drew for about five years was a flat circle with an iris in the middle, and every one of them looked like a sticker. The fix took me embarrassingly long to find. An eyeball...
How to Draw a Graveyard Easy: 6 Steps to a Scene With Real Depth
The first graveyard I ever drew looked like a row of garden ornaments, and it took me a while to work out why. I had drawn five headstones. All the same size, all standing perfectly upright, all...
Every spell book I drew as a teenager came out looking like a school exercise book with a symbol on the front. The reason turned out to be embarrassingly simple. I was drawing a rectangle. A book...
Last October I ran a small drawing session at my local library. Eleven people, mostly beginners, one folding table, and a stack of copy paper. I gave them what I thought was a simple warm-up: draw a...
The first cat I ever drew looked like a potato with ears. I was maybe seven, hunched over a scrap of paper, absolutely certain it would come out perfect. It did not. But here's the thing I wish...