Draw Like A Pro

Our free trial on SIGNUS is actually a wonderful entrance hall to the world of drawing. It’s not designed to actually give you a certain level but rather to show you what drawing really means, how much time you will need to reach the level you want or what kind of satisfaction you can expect.
As [...]

7 years of development to elaborate an outstanding online drawing class.
Signus is an e-learning  platform dedicated to the art of drawing. Result of 7 years of development, Signus is built on the most innovating technique in order to recreate online the real life of a drawing workshop with communication between students and regular advices of [...]

Where is the landscaper in you?
Great is the temptation to go through the Signus lesson on landscape too quickly, to swallow it like a child swallows his candy. Be careful not to miss the essential.
Do you feel like a landscaper?
How do we find the answer to this question?
Having the technique to represent the various elements [...]

You have in mind a particular drawing you decided to work on. You might not have anything specific in mind but you want to draw what’s in front of you. Being lucky, you happen to have your pencil and sketch board.
What can you do? Start drawing, of course! But how? Do you start drawing lines [...]

As a child, I’m sure you were already drawing people as you saw them with your own eyes and your simple understanding of details and proportions. Today, I’m sure that you draw people a lot better but you probably still wish to make them more realistic. How can you make your drawings of people look [...]

We all have a general knowledge of what a tree looks like. It might seem obvious, but there is quite a difference between drawing something you have never seen or touched and something you have known all your life. Even if you are a city person, trees are something you must have seen or touched. [...]

First of all, let’s get rid of questions useless to any student: Do I have talent? Am I gifted?
You are what you are and if you take pleasure in studying how to draw, you have just enough talent to enjoy yourself and appreciate the different improvements in your skills.
In Signus drawing course, Piet Herzeel shows [...]

In order to create an impression of volume and depth one must not overlook what is called colour perspective.
The concept is a little more subjective than line perspective or tone and shade perspective. Nobody likes to follow rules about the use of colours. Where to use them and how to use them is very personal. [...]

The study of drapery is happily one that can be carried on at almost any place, time, and season, and perhaps it is because of this very ease of access that it is so often neglected and many an otherwise satisfactory picture will be marred by the poor drawing of drapery and clothing.
When the weather [...]

(From mai 25th until September 27th 2009)
The influence of Cezanne on Picasso is a well recognized and interesting fact among art lovers. The intimate motivations and passions of an artist are always a thrilling aspect of art history. His respect and passion for Cezanne is well illustrated by the purchase of the chateau de Vauvenargues [...]