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A couple of days back there was comment asking for help on starting to draw and paint. I'd asked him to join the WetCanvas! Classroom forum and to look up some additional sources from this site.

This morning I got a newsletter from drawspace . I find that it is growing to be a wonderful online resource for drawing lessons. These are divided into 3 levels - beginners, intermediate and advanced. drawspace also has a forum which is slowly growing and the activities are focussed on drawing with pencil, charcoal, color pencils and pen & ink. All the lessons have been written by one person and you have a choice of viewing it for free online or downloading the pdf version for a small fee. Brenda Hoddinott whose lessons populate this website is amongst other things a self taught artist. She is currently working on a new website along similar lines for Fine Art.

Today, Mayank has got an update with details of this site as an alternative and few other suggestions one of which I shall put in a fresh post as it is worth its weight in gold for anybody wanting to paint.
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  1. Unknown2:23 PM, December 04, 2006

    Nice informative blog!! You should check out Glenn Vilppu, he is one of the best drawing teachers ever.

    http://www.vilppustudio.com/

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  2. Ujwala Prabhu2:49 PM, December 04, 2006

    Hi Alina. I did check out the link and I have heard very good things about Glenn Vilppu. In this blog, I'm trying to put together resources that are online and free for artists to use. If you know of any such links do let me know. Thanks for stopping by and the link.

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  3. Ramesh Gandhi12:20 PM, December 15, 2006

    What a good idea - thanks for this. And for your always-helpful comments on EDM, too!

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  4. Ujwala Prabhu3:02 PM, December 15, 2006

    Thank you Robin and Nancy. I'm embarassed :P I hope I can get around to updating these more regularly.

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