New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...

For some people, creating art is a passion, for others it's a hobby, and the rest would prefer to just admire art made by someone else. If you fall into that last category and haven't made art since ...

Drawing depends first on really seeing what’s in front of you, contour drawing can help train your hand to follow your eyes. By Diane Olivier Over the years, people develop a manner of “seeing” that ...

To nail hand drawings, stop overcomplicating the anatomy and focus on the core shapes and movement. By breaking hands down into simple forms, you'll be able to sketch them confidently – whether from a ...

A room full of children drawing with crayons and markers is a fairly typical sight at The Delaplaine Arts Center in downtown.

Drawing an object and naming it engages the brain in similar ways. The finding demonstrates the importance of the visual processing system for producing drawings of an object. Drawing an object and ...