| The first type of boring pencil drawing tutorials | | | | no interesting examples, no nothing. Just a bunch |
| are just too short. There are a few pictures in | | | | of boring information on art theories and |
| various stages, and underneath you find a few | | | | techniques. A computer can do this job. We don't |
| captions, and that's it. The captions are short | | | | need a human being if it's just dishing out |
| sentences that explain the technique. They are | | | | information. |
| useful but they never fail to make me think that | | | | What we really need, is someone who can |
| there should be more. | | | | connect and respond to the students. No |
| It just doesn't feel natural. It's like talking to | | | | computer in the world can do that. |
| someone who always reply with short sentences. | | | | I developed a drawing Home Study Course for |
| You ask them a question, they give you a one | | | | the members of my own website, and I promise |
| word answer. Then you think, probably they're | | | | them that there'll be no boring, monotonous |
| just shy. So you try again to make contact and | | | | drawing tutorials from me! |
| you bring up another subject. This time they do a | | | | I can't stand those materials, so I won't make it |
| little better. They come with up exactly two | | | | worse by producing more contaminants for this |
| words, just so they can make up a sentence to | | | | world. So what I did was to go on with my usual |
| satisfy you. | | | | story telling style, and tell the most interesting |
| You ever meet somebody like that? It's almost | | | | stories and deliver the most digestible drawing |
| impossible to carry on a conversation with people | | | | tutorials to my members. |
| like that. And it's probably people who are like that | | | | No more boring pencil drawing tutorials for anyone! |
| who will put out tutorials that are so short. | | | | Darren Chow is the founder and developer of |
| The second type of tutorials that will bore you to | | | | MyArtPassion.com, an online website that offers |
| tears, are just too serious. They talk nothing but | | | | free drawing lessons, home study courses, and |
| technique, technique, technique. That's like having | | | | other drawing related resources. |
| an art teacher, who walks into the classroom and | | | | For more free resources like the one you've just |
| talk nothing but art techniques. | | | | read, please visit for free online drawing lessons. |
| There are no stories, no background information, | | | | |