Draw Like A Pro

Every so often, a teacher needs to face a real live class. Piet Herzeel, founder of the Signus online drawing course, firmly believes in this. Actually, after many    months of putting the online course together, he had a true need for a live class… It was also, for him as well as for the students, [...]

Where does the hand-held fan come from ? The Orient supposedly… When was it first used ? Since the creation of woman, with no doubt, ladies being naturally so charming and this attire being so elegant must have appeared the same day woman first existed. I’m convinced that Eve was using one in the garden [...]

The cat, in spite of the respect, admiration and sometimes worship that man has or had for him, has not suffered from the centuries of selective breeding. Unlike the dogs, the cat’s anatomy has remained the same altogether. The actual cat that we all know is quite the same as the one worshiped by the [...]

If you give the same subject to different people to draw, their work will be necessarily quite different. Besides how correct the outline is and how accurate are the proportions, what matters is how is what kind of treatment was chosen. Sometimes, drawing in lines can give a very accurate description of distances, light, shade [...]

There is something else you need to take into account: the direction of the light, or to be more precise, where the light is coming from, the place where it originates. Whenever the luminous source moves, a shadow changes its shape and position. A standing figure will cast a short shadow at midday when the [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

(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 [...]