Articles Comments

Headline

How to Draw Samurai

June 3rd, 2011 | Add a Comment

This is just a quick post on how to draw a samurai. I was practicing how to render (add colour, light and tone) in a way I have never done before. It was just a quick practice lasting only 20mins. I will explain later how I did it, sorry. I must dash…til tomorrow or Sunday. Stay tuned till then as I will fully explain with video how I did it and with what brushes I used. Till then keep drawing!             Finally, I’ve uploaded the video tutorial for you guys and I hope it helps! Any questions feel free to ask and I’ll get back to you asap, enjoy!!   … Read entire article »

Latest

How to set up your canvas in Photoshop

This can be a frustrating task to get right but once you do it, I would suggest you save it as your default canvas set up so you don’t have to waste time figuring it out all over again: Set up your wacom pen tilt sensitivity to high and tip feel to more than half towards firm.                   2. Next when you open a new document in Photoshop, document size is usually 700pixels by 700pixels or you can simply use the default size to 640pixels (high) by 480pixels (wide). 3. Then … Read entire article »

How to Draw a Black Female Face & Torso

Here is another example of a female and this time I have added part of her upper body (torso) which I know, I need to finish. Its just that it took me an hour to do just the face and I got tired. There’s another sign of my humanity – the need for sleep! I was trying to do it really quickly, not focusing too much on detail. I have been working in grayscale (black & white) for the past few drawings because its easier to explain step by step what I am doing in the process of rendering or toning. Its far easier to do this in black and white than it is in … Read entire article »

How to Draw Female face 3/4 View

In trying to keep to my resolution of drawing a picture every day I just managed to churn this one out. I had to work fast as I only had an hour to do it. Anyway I hope you like! There are a few things not to accurate with it I think I’ll fix it later but at least it looks ok. Something that I hope to teach you in this lesson is to trust your eyes and brush down exactly what you see and not what you think you see or what you think the object should look like, in this case the face. If you notice the lips are a bit too far back … Read entire article »

How to Render – Tip picked up from car designer…

How to Render – Tip picked up from car designer…

Just saw very interesting way of rendering, notice how he sprays colours around and builds on top of each colour: His site I was watching is on youtube just click below: Rendering Tip From Car Designer We shall be using these techniques for future drawings, watch this space. … Read entire article »

ARTISTS WANTED! Hurry time running out…

Artists Wanted : A Year In Review is an international, all-medium-encompassing open call for art. This is your moment to share your work with the world and have a chance at $10,000 in grants, international publicity and a feature exhibition in Scope Art Show during Armory Week in New York City. You did the hard part, making great work. This is your call to be discovered. Your Deadline to Enter is this Friday, January 28, 2011 11:59pm EST However I was reading and they say that late entries have till February 4th 2011, so you better be quick! Check out their website: http://www.artistswanted.org/index.php Well Good luck to all that enter, … Read entire article »

How to Draw a Female Face…

Its another day, and I am trying to draw something everyday as my new years resolution. So far so good and today I thought I should show you how to draw a female face considering that I showed you how to draw a male head in the previous lesson. Don’t worry if you cannot remember everything just keep revisiting my video’s and also I shall be doing more video tutorials where I will narrate each step of the way, from construction line to finish. Below are the step by step thumbnails so lets take a look at how it was done, I think I will finish her later but for now you get the point. a.) Step … Read entire article »

Its time…

Well I said I was going to give some good tutorials for you and here is one. Before we get started I think I should give you a little tip that should help you to draw better and that is this: DO NOT GIVE UP! Even if you get things wrong, don’t worry about it, its how you learn and one day it will all come together. When it does you’ll sit back in surprise thinking, ‘Did I just do that?’ A good artist makes more mistakes than a bad artist, why is that? Because the good artist keeps on going but the bad artist gave up at his mistake. Our tutorial today is how I would … Read entire article »

Happy New Year!!

Well its a new year and whilst everyone is making their new years resolutions, make this one of yours: become a better artist! One simple rule to becoming a better artist is Practice. You may have heard this before and be thinking, ‘Yeah I know about that, but practice what?’ This answer is simple, just try to draw what you know you cannot draw. That’s right, Stop drawing those things you know how to draw quite well, its time to move on. Even the musician comes to the point almost everyday when he says, ‘Right I think I’ve nailed that song, let me move on.’ True he does return to it some time later but he … Read entire article »