September 11, 2008
- Free Advice to Facial Hair Drawing
Learn the Secrets of Pencil Portrait Drawing - Facial Hair
A mustache or a beard usually has lots of fullness. Therefore, it must be built up in layers. You need to look at facial hair in terms of shapes and not just in terms of outlines. The values are also of critical importance.
Here are a [...]
September 8, 2008
- Free Helpful Advice to Mastering Blending in Portrait Drawing
Advice on Pencil Portrait Drawing - Blending
Learning to blend is a skill that you need to master to become a good pencil portraits artist. Once you have a line drawing and once you have laid down the different values based on, for example, a five-value scale, you can start blending the different value areas. To [...]
September 4, 2008
- Free Tips to Professional Portrait Drawing
The Line Drawing
In this article I will discuss the importance of a line drawing in producing pencil portraits. I will also discuss the details of rendering such a drawing. We start with a gridded reference image that has the same dimensions as the drawing we will produce. By the way, a gridded image which has [...]
April 24, 2008
- Theater Art Kabuki
Kabuki is a traditional Japanese theater art. The word Kabuki is derived from the Japanese word kabuki which means avant-garde or bizarre theater. Kabukimono were youngsters who were rebellious and used to dress strangely. Because the kanji characters sing and dance, kabuki also means the art of singing and dancing.
This work has been tampered with [...]
March 16, 2008
- Looking For Antique Bookcases? Search Online For Sculpture Artifacts
I was utterly speechless as I walked into the store of Antique Jewelry Chicago. I was assigned a PowerPoint on different types of Architectural Artifacts to present to my class, so my mother suggested to me to go to an actual store to learn information for my assignment . [...]
February 7, 2008
- 5 Steps To Learn How To Play The Piano
Do you want to learn how to play the piano? You are not alone; the piano is perhaps the most popular of all instruments because it evokes a combination of feelings. It can show romance, anger, happiness, sadness, and a host of other feelings combined. Of all instruments, the piano is the most romantic and [...]
August 30, 2007
- Useful Facts About Broadway Plays
Current info about Broadway show tickets is not always the easiest thing to locate. Fortunately, this report includes the latest Broadway Show Tickets info available.
Some people only get a chance to visit New York a few times and therefore want to maximize their trips to the Big Apple as much as they can. They [...]
August 8, 2007
- Secrets to being the Artistic Artist
Secrets to being the Artistic Artist involve the skill of Observation. A trained observant eye will catch every technicality because specific traits and attention to details are the life, character and style of any art work. Observation like any thing else does take some practice.
Let me illustrate, when you go to a mall or [...]
June 4, 2007
- Urban Style Clothes with Original Art
I can’t say enough about the funky wearable art you can find at ResistToday . Their urban art is totally unique and You can get it on t-shirts, wallets, purses, pins or just about whatever those guys decide to print on. You never know what they’ll come up with next.
The art is completely original done [...]
