Drawing

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional football team in the National Football League, where they are a part of the AFC North division. The Ravens team colors are black, purple and gold, and they...

Photoshop allows for the creation of perfect lines, which allows you to create very smooth, crisp line art. However, creating the variation of line-thickness found in traditional manga can be...

Calligraphy is an art form in its own right. Although the lettering alone can be deemed works of art, there is another part of the design in Calligraphy---the border art. These beautiful page...

You can get better a drawing anything. You don't have to be hard on yourself in order to draw something that's great! All you to do is have a little patience and that's about it. That and an open...

Lights are hard to draw, especially when the subject matter is set at nighttime and your pencil can't seem to make the shadows dark enough for the lights to stand out. The magic of drawing lights...

Drawing can be fun, relaxing, and sometimes rewarding. Creating lifelike drawings is more challenging than creating cartoon images and requires imagination and patience. Face drawing, or...

Baby faces are easier to draw than adult faces in that baby faces are simpler. There are still two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth, a head and a chin...but features become more defined with age....

Great painters like Vermeer and Michelangelo all learned to paint by first learning to draw, and learned to draw by first learning to sketch --- to capture the basics of form and movement and...

Drawing flowers can be a rewarding experience for a budding artist. Follow these directions, and your flowers will be lovely art pieces each time.

Photoshop offers unlimited possibilities for creating visual effects that can enhance any photo or design project. Using Adobe Photoshop 8.0, you can create dimensional bullet holes to add to a...

Anime is a style of animation originating in Japan. It features delicately drawn characters and mystical plot lines. All anime has some type of magic or spiritualism in it; the main characters are...

Anime is a Japanese style of art featuring delicately beautiful characters. The characters are slender and willowy, often possessing outrageous hairstyles and clothing. They can also be part...

When drawing, switching from culture to culture can sometimes be a difficult task; so many faces are different already but when switching cultures the facial differences vary greatly. Drawing the...

When coloring with a crayon, it is easy to accidently wander from the coloring page and onto the paper of the book. Because the book can not be put in a washing machine or face extreme heat, it is...

It's not complicated: First, you draw the interior of a room. Second, you draw tables. Next, you populate the room with people, and then you draw the plates of food. The sum of these parts may...

The act of drawing is one of the easiest and least expensive ways for people to express their creativity. It is also a foundational skill in art that is necessary for students to master before...

Sketching human features is challenging, even for some artists who have been doing it for a while. To get a realistic human face, an artist needs to be able to capture not only the features of the...

Manga is usually used outside Japan to indicate any comic that has the Japanese style of comic book. These graphic novels tell stories with both text and pictures, mostly emphasizing stunning...

Professional artists have spent years working on their artistic skills. Many times drawing comes naturally to them. Along with skill, drawing takes a lot of time and patience. Anyone can create a...

One of the most popular characters from the "Star Wars" saga is the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Boba Fett made his first appearance in "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" as one of the main...

Applying gold leaf, or gilding, is a beautiful way to add ornament to gift wrap, manuscripts, greeting cards and books. Illuminated manuscripts dating back as far as 400 to 600 A.D. still show...

Ball-point pens can create highly detailed illustrations. Unlike other mediums, the ball-point pen is constantly yields the same strokes or lines. This can allow and artist to work very close...

Are you a manga fanatic? Have you ever wanted to be like your favorite manga artist? Do you think you can achieve making your own manga? It's pretty simple if you follow these precise steps to get...

Ever had that feeling that you always wanted to drew something but you just have something that keep on stopping you from doing it by whatever it is? Here im going to basically write down...

Do yo now someone who seems to know how to draw anything and everything? What’s the secret? It is just something you are born with? Most people would say yes, it is something you are just born...

Drawing is one of those things that we think of as a special talent that only a select few possess. Though innate talent is definitely a huge part of it, drawing can be somewhat learned.

Let me teach you how to draw monsters and how to make them fun and silly instead of gross and violent. These monster drawings are meant for children, and so are the steps used to draw them. If a...

Learning how to draw animals is can be a challenge. It is a subject with as much variety as just about anything, and come characteristics are extremely difficult to capture on paper. Making common...

Even if you have never painted before in your life, and consider yourself devoid creative talents- you can still paint a beautiful landscape photo. Maybe you are already a painter, and are looking...

A pantograph is a simple device, sometimes in the shape of three diamonds and sometimes in the shape of a parallelogram that is used to make copies of images, including enlarging or shrinking the...

Would you like a character theme in your babies room or perhaps a cartoon character in your own room. Then try my method and you will be pleased with your result.

Do you have a great black and white drawing you want to ad color to, but are fearful of ruining the original? Do you want to explore using "real" color (as opposed to computer-enhanced...

Learning to draw caricatures that are convincing can take some time and practice, but practicing the wrong thing wont get you anywhere. Ready to impress your friends with a skill that they are...

Airbrushing is an art technique that entails spraying ink, dye or paint over a canvas or any type of medium to create an image. This allows an artist to create a more realistic image -- something...

The Dragon Ball Z anime originated in Japan in the mid 1980s. The franchise has three installments: Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. The franchise has created hundreds of TV episodes...

Many artists enjoy sketching or painting hidden images within their larger works. The media has suggested often that the works of Leonardo da Vinci, including the Mona Lisa, contained hidden...

Independent cartoonists are more prevalent these days than ever before--or at least it seems that way. The Internet has opened up the playing field to anyone with the ability to post comics...

Drawing a military tank is a matter of studying an image that you like; observing the style; and drawing angles and camouflage patterns, and shading. Military tanks were first used in warfare...

Artists and designers use color wheels to establish color scheme before beginning a project. With colors evenly spaced around the color wheel, one can create colors that are monochromatic,...

One of the simplest ways to create a drawing of a horse is with a vector program such as Adobe Illustrator. Using vector shapes, you can build a horse and easily change things, such as the colors...

Looking to enhance your portrait drawings? Having trouble making curls? This "how to" will teach you how to draw realistic curly hair in graphite pencil as used by Phoenix artist, Linda...

In this graphic design tutorial I will show you how to create a 3d like scene in photoshop. Each step as a picture so you can follow my steps correctly. Please don't hesitate to recommend me or to...

Pretty writing has been prized since the beginning of written history with each previous typeface adopted, adjusted and “modernized” by the next generation or artist. Creating your own decorative...

Airplanes have captured the imaginations of children since the late 1800s, when the first model planes took to the skies. The plane flown by the Wright brothers, a biplane, has become a favorite...

Animation has been around for decades. Early animation started with crudely drawn figures in flip books. Today, animation artists combine hand and computer animation to create detailed, ...

Painting metal can be a tricky prospect. While there are often pre-made metallic hues for paints these typically have shiny flakes of material in them to give the impression of metal shine and can...

The more comics you draw, the more comfortable you become with drawing your regular cast of characters. Into every comic, however, a crowd scene must fall. Unless your characters are on a deserted...

There's no doubt about it: Faces are one of the more difficult things to draw, and, while there are clear rules about how to draw an adult's face, a kid's face can be more complicated. The...

Drawing a sprinkler system is time consuming but not too complicated. The system used as a guide is for home irrigation and was inspired by an image from Sprinkler Warehouse.

Drawing people in action sequences can be tricky. When people have swords in drawings, they are usually fighting or preparing to fight. That means you need to think about all the muscles and the...