On 3 Jun, 2010 With
If you feel teaching how to draw for kids is beyond you because you believe that you are unable to draw yourself (I believe that being artistic can be developed just like muscles) do not worry and read on.While artistic drawing is an amazing skill, even more amazing is the different styles and artistic interpretations that can be found among many of today’s young kid artists.Within each stage in a kids life, art is viewed through many different lenses, each a different perspective colored by experience, perception and growth of ones artistic skills.Encourage your kids to look at and copy other peoples work. When your kids carefully look at someone else’s work it will help to improve their work very…
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On 2 Jun, 2010 With
Whilst there are many important facets within the art world for artists to master, when pencil drawing, shading has definitely got to be a crucial skill to develop. Shading can make such a huge difference to any drawing; it can certainly make the subject stand out and affords the artist the opportunity to develop it more. There is a great deal that you can learn just by observing the environment around you but by following these five points, you will be able to start achieving maximum results. * There is light and shade everywhere we look. If you have a computer for example, notice the shadow from your monitor on the wall. If you have a cup near you, notice…
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On 2 Jun, 2010 With
Some artists find it difficult to distinguish foreground detail from middle-distance and far distant detail. Some of the reason for this could be that some artists are able to see more detail… * When you are long-sighted it is likely that you can see distant objects * When you are short-sighted it is less likely that you can see far into the distance With landscape drawing it might be thought that a short-sighted artist has an advantage… Unseen distant details can be replaced with general shapes. For example a distant mountain can be represented by a simple outline. If you are a long-sighted artist, you could try to draw everything you can see. This may include detail close to your…
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On 2 Jun, 2010 With
Drawing eyes, can be the hardest part for an artist, when trying to capture the realism of the face. Whether it is a pet, a wild animal, a bird, or a human, its all in the eyes. The eyes are called the “window to the soul” by many people, and when you are able to catch an emotion on paper, then you have succeeded in bringing your piece to life. You have to break the eye down into little pieces and then work on them one by one and build it up in layers, starting with a rough background and then building up the layers. This can be hard to achieve from books, or pattern instructions, actually some artists will…
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On 28 May, 2010 With
When an artist comes to drawing a human figure the challenge they comes across is to try and see the whole figure as it’s own shape. This is because our experience from looking at our bodies in the past tells us that the human figure is made up of various parts, we need to scrap this thinking and start looking at the whole body as one form.For example we might enjoy taking the time to draw the eyes of a subject, but we might not be so interested in drawing the hair of the subject. If we choose to draw in this fashion the end result will not look congruent because parts of the picture will be delivered with less…
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On 27 May, 2010 With
When it comes to multiple subjects in one pencil portrait drawing, there are two possibilities: (1) all subjects appear in one photograph; (2) the subjects appear in different photographs. We will be concerned with the second possibility. It will not take long before you will get a request to make one portrait out of several photographs. This often happen when grandma wants to have a portrait made of all her grandchildren. This can be done but you need to be aware of a number of difficulties. Here are a few guidelines to follow when combining photographs: * Lighting – Check the light source in each of the photographs. Your portrait drawing needs a unified light source. Hopefully the light source…
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On 26 May, 2010 With
You see, all good pencil sketch tutorials should contain two very important criteria. The first criteria that a good drawing tutorial should fulfill is that it has to be written by an artist. If it’s a pencil sketch tutorial, it’s best that a pencil artist writes the tutorial. That’s because only the artists themselves have a true understanding of the problems and challenges of pencil sketching. And those are exactly the same problems that you’re facing, and now you’re hoping that someone has found the solutions to those problems and can help you with them. The second criteria of a good drawing tutorial is that the tutorial should be written by someone who knows how to communicate and train effectively….
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On 26 May, 2010 With
Is anyone able to sit down and play the piano beautifully without having received lessons? Can one read automatically without being taught? No. All of us who have acquired these skills have learned them early in our lives through a structured program of instruction. This is true not only for music and reading but for all other artistic subjects. Why is it then that we don’t provide instruction for drawing?Young children are often overlooked by the traditional drawing curriculum that tends to focus on children over twelve or thirteen years old, who are blessed with natural talent and who can usually draw already. School teachers do craft projects and provide younger children with free time to do symbolic stick-figure-style drawings….
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On 26 May, 2010 With
We can use coloured pencils for the drawing. The technique of pencil lining and shading remains the same for the black or colour pencils. But in case of the colour pencils you should have good experience of drawing. If you know some basic rules of the art of pencil drawing, that would help you much. While using colour pencil as medium of drawing, you can exploit it extremely well. The different shades available in this field of colour drawing would enable you more freedom in expressing the scene before your eyes. The pencils and proper choice of the colours play a greater part, if you are drawing with coloured pencils. In case of the black pencil drawing, the skillful use…
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On 25 May, 2010 With
If you enjoy drawing or want to learn how to draw and make people laugh at the same time, then learn to draw caricatures is the site for you. Do you have aspirations of perhaps becoming a cartoonist or caricature artist? What if you could find a way to guarantee your artistic success.? By learning the real secrets of how to draw caricatures, you could become a caricature artist and dramatically change your lifestyle. Just imagine if you had a constant stream of work and could go from job to job, drawing your cartoonish faces, with no slowdowns. Just think about earning money from simply drawing cartoonish faces. Can it get any better than this? Just imagine how impressed and…
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