Figures

Medium
- Acrylic
- Acrylic ink
- Airbrush
- Alkyd
- Brush pen
- Charcoal
- Collage
- Coloured pencil
- Digital Art
- Drawing
- Egg tempera
- Encaustic
- Gouache
- Graphite
- Ink
- Markers
- Mixed media
- Oil
- Oil pastel
- Oil sticks/bars
- Pastel
- Pastel pencil
- Pen & ink
- Pen & wash
- Pencil
- Printmaking
- Scratchboard
- Silk painting
- Spray paints
- Watercolour
- Water-soluble coloured pencil
- Water-soluble oil
Techniques
- Airbrush
- Alla prima
- Cross-hatching
- En plein air
- Etching
- Fat over lean
- Glaze
- Hatching
- Impasto
- Lino printing
- Lithography
- Loose
- Palette knife
- Scumble
- Sfumato
- Wet in wet
- Wet on dry
Subject matter
- Animals
- Autumn
- Birds
- Boats & Harbours
- Botanical
- Buildings
- Cities
- Figures
- Flowers
- Interiors
- Landscape
- Portraits
- Seascape
- Self portrait
- Spring
- Still life
- Summer
- The nude
- Townscape/urban
- Transport
- Trees
- Winter
Painting style
- Abstract
- Academic
- Chinese brush painting
- Expressive
- Figurative
- Genre
- Gestural
- Hyperrealism
- Illustration
- Impressionist
- Loose
- Miniature
- Monochromatic
- Narrative
- Oriental
- Photorealism
- Realism
- Representational
- Trompe l'oeil
Article type
- Advice
- Art Materials
- Artists Videos
- Basic
- Beginner
- Book and DVD reviews
- Demonstration
- Expert
- Guide
- How to
- Improver
- In conversation
- Inspiration
- Interview
- Masterclass
- New launch
- New publications
- News
- Other Media
- Paint from photographs
- Product report
- Professional
- Reviews
- Road test
- Simplified
- Specials
- Step-by-step
- Style
- Techniques
- Top tips
- Video of the month

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Learn to create great figure drawings with David Stead.

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