Drawing Techniques: Lessons, Tutorials, and Tips for Artists and Illustrators

Lifting Color: Two Methods -- This tutorial from Bet Borgeson demonstrates how an artist can make changes or fix problems in any colored pencil drawing. Techniques include using frisket film, masking tape, and burnishing tools. "From Aunt Wilmot's Things" by Bet Borgeson -- This seven-step demonstration teaches the many stages involved in creating a masterful colored pencil drawing and provides helpful tips for establishing a good composition, an effective range of values, and a variety of edges. Drawing Tutorials and Tips -- Brian Duey's online drawing tutorials focus primarily on drawing facial features and creating life-like portraits. Mini - Tutorial: Instruction for Charcoal & Graphite Pencil Artists -- J. Drawing Tutorials -- Mike Malaska shares techniques for drawing shapes, lines, perspective, and people. Figure Drawing -- Artist Tenaya Sims provides a thorough explanation of rendering the figure using brown, red, and black pencils to establish color temperature relationships.

Portrait art tutorials—tips on how to draw faces and portraits - drawing lessons, color theory, sketching people Tutorials - Quick Sketch Technique Introduction Although we all like to see and admire well crafted illustrations, as a professional designer you will find that these constitute a small percentage of the work you will produce. As a designer your job is to create many and varied ideas in a short space of time, and to do so in a way that others can see and understand your thinking. A good sketching technique can fulfil both of these. This tutorial aims to show a good technique for working out ideas in both a fast and readable manner. Perspective When drawing, a basic understanding of the rules of perspective is essential if you are to achieve a realistic effect. Horizon Line: This line, as its name suggests, describes the horizon, which is always considered to be at eye level. Vanishing Points: Sited on the horizon line these are the points where all convergence lines meet. Convergence Lines: All parallel lines in a scene will always appear to converge to a single point (the vanishing points).

Illustrator Drawing Tutorials on Tutorial Outpost – Photoshop Tutorials, Flash Tutorials, and more! Create a wave text and shape using the warp effect in Illustrator. Click here to view the full tutorial. How to Create an Open Book with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel Tool Click here to view the full tutorial. Ahoy lads and ladettes. Click here to view the full tutorial. In this tutorial, we’re going to use Path Tools to draw a shield. Click here to view the full tutorial. Adobe illustrator cs3 tutorial on how to make a gun or a firearm bullet related website graphic for a free template. Click here to view the full tutorial. Go Media shows you how to use ready-made stock artwork to put together a killer shirt design that is on time and on budget! Click here to view the full tutorial. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a sweet trendy circles to be apply in your designs using Illustrator. Click here to view the full tutorial. Learn how to make a realistic 3D look glossy heart for a logo Click here to view the full tutorial. Click here to view the full tutorial.

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