How to draw

Drawing an Eastern Orthodox Cross

This one is rather easy as it’s similar to, but not quite a Latin Cross. It does take more than the usual amount of space on a grid though: Not using a grid? No problem, just do this: Start this design by making a Latin Cross that’s thinner than usual. …

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Drawing a Patriarchal Cross

This design is pretty straightforward; it’s basically your typical Latin Cross with a little tweaking. The main difference is that the crossbeam is a little farther down. For those of you working off of a grid, this is another easy design to make: For everyone else, here’s how to draw …

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Drawing a Triangle

Note: this tutorial is about drawing triangles as a symbol, not drawing them in general. See this tutorial for that. Like the Square symbol, a Triangle symbol is just a triangular frame. However, making a triangle nestle in another triangle isn’t quite as simple as when you’re working with squares. …

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Tutorials for Drawing Symbols

Tutorials for Drawing Symbols

If you want to learn an easy way to draw a Christian symbol, this is the place to look! Below is a complete list of all of the symbol drawing tutorials available here, so simply click on a symbol’s thumbnail to go to see how to draw it. If you …

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Useful Notes

While Drawn By His Light is primarily about the symbols used in Christian art, there are other topics that are worth exploring. These might stimulate some creative ideas or just answer some questions that might have been brought up when you were reading other pages on here. Below is a …

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Tips for using Mechanical Pencils for your artwork

Back when I was in school, nobody really used mechanical pencils for anything. However, they are a very practical choice for drawing, especially when you’re doing the layout or sketching phases. A useful benefit of these pencils is that you only need to get new lead when they run out; …

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Drawing a Beehive

Drawing a beehive can be tricky. The major difficulty is getting the hive itself centered and the bees placed an equal distance around it. Here’s a series of steps to handle this design: Draw a large box where the beehive will go. Connect the corners. Draw two lines from the …

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Drawing an Epiphany Star

There’s less to drawing this symbol than it looks, but it’s still one of the more difficult designs. The real trick is getting the star centered. Get ready to draw a lot of circles! Here’s how to tackle this design: Start by drawing a large plus. Divide the arms of …

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Drawing a Pitcher and Basin

The basin itself is probably one of the easiest things you can draw, so focus on the pitcher. Here’s how to draw this symbol: To begin, draw an upright oval. The thinner the oval, the thinner the pitcher, so try to make it a little over half as wide as …

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Tips and General Guides

tutorials for drawing shapes

Not quite everything fits neatly into a catagory like the tutorials for drawing shapes or the tutorials for drawing symbols. To keep things easy to navigate and find, everything that doesn’t fit another category is gathered here. A word about trying to making things perfect How making a bounding box …

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