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Use Various Media to Create an Elf - Painting Tutorial
I started by sketching out my idea for an elf then enhancing the lines.
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Drawing the Seat of the Hand - Drawing Tutorial
To learn to draw the hand, we must first break it down into it's simplest form. Trying to draw the whole hand and the fingers when you are a beginner is a daunting task and many times is not learned properly.
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Learn the Easy Method to Drawing the Finger - Drawing Tutorial
I want to first explain why I am teaching on learning to draw one finger. Since the hand is a difficult part of the anatomy to learn to draw, breaking it down into it's simplest format I feel is the best method, therefore I think this lesson will be very helpful to all who are wanting to learn to draw the hand.
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Drawing a Box - Sketching Tutorial
In this lesson we'll learn how to look at the structure of the box in terms of where it is placed in our sight. For visual purposes, the light source will be coming from the right and casting a shadow.
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Creating a Watercolor Pencil and Ink Bird - Drawing Tutorial
As you know you first make a light pencil sketch of the outline of the bird. Using Derwent watercolor pencils I used Copper Beach to fill in the brown areas of the bird. I changed to Deep Cadmium for the belly area. Ivory Black was used in the eye, part of the wing, and the legs.
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Solvent Painting Method - Painting Tutorial
We start this colored pencil lesson with Prismacolor colored pencils. The colors in the drawing below are violet, mulberry, black cherry, imperial violet, and Tuscan red. The colors are laid out in five columns as I have done below.
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Drawing Real Looking Cherries - Drawing Tutorial
I've chosen to use Bristol Board for this lesson. Using a drawing pencil, sketch out the outline of the cherries plus the stems. Also delineate the shadow areas. Use a drawing eraser to lightly erase the lines.
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Pen & Ink and Watered Down Ink Technique - Drawing Tutorial
With a drawing pencil I sketched out a picture that would act as my template. The actual drawing is not as dark but for the purposes of this lesson I darkened it so that you could see the detail.
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Drawing with Sketching Pencil and Verithin Colored Pencil - Drawing Tutorial
Before I began this project I sketched a simple line outline then I used a basic crosshatch motion to fill in the pear. For the shadow I used light sweeping strokes until I got it to look like a shadow should.
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Animating Face Changes - Drawing Tutorial
Here are some simple methods to learning how to draw facial changes in animation. Below we have a rather happy face next to a sad face. If we combine the two halves of each face, we immediately get a rather puzzled look. Draw three ovals and apply the same hair style to each.
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Aminate the Bouce Step - Drawing Tutorial
The first thing you need to do when creating the animated bounce step is to get that trusty pencil out and draw some legs as I have done below. The center leg in red represents the passing position or that the opposite leg is walking. In this animated walk, the rule of thumb would be two bounces per step which indicates a double bounce.
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Creating Art with Acrylic and Pen & Ink - Painting Tutorial
I am starting with a pencil sketch as you should do.
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Using Acrylic and Colored Pencil in an Illustration - Painting Tutorial
Start with a sketch.
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Painting a Rose - Watercolor Tutorial
You first start with a sketch. If it is too dark, use a kneaded eraser to lighten the sketch.
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Painting a Cactus - Watercolor Tutorial
In this lesson I'll paint a partial cactus with watercolor on watercolor paper. Lightly sketch in the cactus with pencil.
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