About Us - Acrylic Painting Secrets Acrylic Painting Secrets is run by Paintbox Art Media Ltd - a fully registered and licensed business based in the UK (and affectionally titled after Bob's wife Pam). The company was founded several years ago by Bob Davies after his first site how-to-draw-and-paint.com quickly gathered recognition. Today, Paintbox Art Media Ltd's websites receive over 1.5 million unique visitors per year with over 100,000 subscribers to it's free newsletter. While the company is small, close-knit and underpinned by a strong family connection, we take business and professionalism very seriously. Step-by-steps & patterns Examples of this and alternative method here I draw string a lot so it's all over the blog. See also here and here. ("Well" is an official Zentangle pattern - this is just my spin on it) See an example of Morning Glories here
Perspective Seen from Different Points of View ) on a plane. The third method was a carthographic method of linear perspective: the oikumene as seen from one vieuwpoint (mappamundi). 111 Ptolemy’s atlas arrived in Florence in 1400, just before the outburst of creativity, 114 this new approach provided mathematical unity for the geographic knowledge in a coordinate framework (grid-system). 118 A similar grid-system was applied in Alberti’s ‘velo’, a gridlike veil that organized the visible world into a geometric composition, structured on evenly spaced grid coordinates (De Pictura, Book Two): object ‘represented on the flat surface of the veil’. 120 Relation rediscovery of Ptolemy’s atlas, the rediscovery of linear perspective (Brunellesci) and the rediscovery of America (Columbus), 121 cf Toscanelli, writing to the Portugese court about sailing routes to the Orient. 125 Brunelleschi: idea of the perceptual [sic!] ‘truth’ of linear perspective. In Vol.2 K compares the next texts of Euclid’s Optics: Euclidis Optica (ed.
Charcoal, free charcoal drawing lessons Choose Medium: Art Books | Learning to Draw | Oil Painting | Watercolor | Acrylic | Pastel | Pencil | Charcoal | Pen & Ink | Misc Charcoal comes in various forms, both compressed and in vine (often taken from the willow tree). These tutorials, explore vine and compressed charcoal and its uses in sketches, drawing and studies using brush techniques. Although the medium can be messy, this usually only adds to the enjoyment, of a sadly overlooked medium with huge potential. How to Zentangle Affiliate links may be included in this post. Thank you for supporting Craftwhack! As simple as it is, I realize a lot of people out there want to learn exactly how to Zentangle®. It can look and seem intimidating to start when you see some of the intricate works of tangle art floating around out there. The secret of Zentangle?
Learn to Draw - The basic elements in drawing Let's get a bit more in depth with the elements of drawing. The rest of this website will get even further into each of these elements. Line is the most basic element of the drawing. And in it's most basic definition, it's what separates one area of the drawing plane from the other. A single line will segment your piece of paper into "that area" and "this area". 100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want. General Tutorials
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Virtual Dummy and Hand to draw MIKOTO 04f IN ENGLISH WITH VIRTUAL DUMMY AND HAND!!! Mikoto is a japanese software used to make simple 3D animations,the project was abandoned but there is a couple of version around Internet (all of them in japanese TT__TT so I made my own translation version The Virtual dummy can help you to draw the hard poses of your characters...ok,its true you can use Poser or 3dMax for this kind of things but they take a lot of memory from your PC and they have many functions that you don't need...If you only want to turn the character in a pose and copy it Mikoto will work nice
Tutorial Tuesday: Drawing the Female Figure Tutorial Tuesday is here, and this week we’re going to tackle the Female Figure in comics. The basic tutorials and tips I’m going to discuss here applies to drawing females in your typical American mainstream action-hero style. You’ll notice that females vary greatly from genre to genre – you wouldn’t necessarily use some of the tips in this tutorial to draw females in manga, or if you were doing an Indie style comic where the females are normal in appearance. The women in mainstream comics tend to be hyper-sexualized, over proportioned and exaggerated idealistic forms, much like their beefcake counterparts on the male side. But – what you can take from this is the basic principles of anatomy.