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Free Art Lessons and Tutorials - TheVirtualInstructor.com

Free Art Lessons and Tutorials - TheVirtualInstructor.com
Learn how to Draw, Paint, and create Digital Art Welcome to TheVirtualInstructor.com, your online source for high-quality art lessons. This site is constructed for you. Whether you are an artist, an aspiring artist, a student, a teacher, want art instruction at home, or if you are just curious, TheVirtualInstructor.com has a tutorial for you. Some of these tutorials require membership, but many of the tutorials are free. This site is jam-packed with drawing tutorials, painting lessons, videos, art fundamentals, and resources - all of which are high-quality.

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How to Draw a Portrait of the Head The most important part of a drawing is the start, not the finish. This tutorial will focus on how to start a portrait drawing, using basic blocking-in techniques. When drawing a portrait from life, you don’t want to just jump-in and draw. I always walk around the model to get a better understanding of the model and plan out my composition.

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How to Think of What to Draw Edit Article Edited by Dvortygirl, Laptop123, Nicole Willson, Random and 41 others Have you been inspired to draw, including getting inspiration from famous artists, or are just doing it for fun? Drawing can often be fun, but sometimes it can be hard to think of ideas for what to draw. Well, don't worry about that -- there are many, many different ideas - just read this article to find out what they are. Ad Gazette du Bon Ton Antique Fashion Prints 1912-1913 L'Epousee aux Dentelles by Alex Rzewuski BTG19 $125 Each single print measures approximately 7 1/4 inches wide by 9 1/2 inches long. We at Panteek are unexpectedly entranced by the beauty of these rare pochoir illustrations from the magazine Bon Ton Gazette published by Lucien Vogel 1912-1928. Designed as a journal to appeal to the elite of Paris, full of high fashion plates and chatty articles on all aspects of life for the privileged, it transcends its mundane goals through the incredible quality of the publication from the high quality paper to the breath taking beauty of the prints and the high quality of the art throughout. Here in the so called “forgotten years” of the 1920’s we see the art that evokes the whole gamut of that fabulously creative era in France, from the Impressionists and the Fauves to the Cubists, Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau & Deco periods.

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How to Draw the Nose Update 09-26-2012 – Above is a video version of this tutorial. For more video tutorials visit Proko.com and subscribe to the newsletter In this tutorial I will go over the structure of the nose and give detailed information about the bridge, ball, and nostrils of the nose. At the end, I will show a step by step of a nose drawing. How to Disappear Online at WhoIsHostingThis.com Home » Data Visualization » How to Disappear Online New round here? Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed. Social media has made everyone’s life an open book (one that’s open a bit too far in some cases).

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