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Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. 50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing. Advertisement Traditional drawing is certainly way harder than digital and it is true that people are able to progress much faster digitally, but one should learn the traditional type of drawing and painting before starting digital drawing, since it often lays out the foundation for screen design.

50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing

This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. Photography Tips & Tutorials. A Singular Creation Art Community. We would like to ing you this feature tutorial by Linda Bergkvist, renowned in the digital arts community for her gorgeous portrayal of characters.

A Singular Creation Art Community

In this tutorial, Linda shows us step by step how she paints realistic eyes. About Linda Bergkvist Linda Bergkvist is a renowned digital artist who currently lives in Sweden. Linda Bergkvist's website can be found at www.furiae.com. How to Draw Eyes.

For a video version of this tutorial visit www.proko.com/how-to-draw-eyes-structure This tutorial is a continuation of How to Draw the Head from Any Angle.

How to Draw Eyes

I will go over the structure of the eye and detailed information on drawing the brow ridge, eyeball, eyelids, eyelashes, iris, cornea, and pupil. The Basic Forms The Eyeball The part of the eyeball that is visible (technical term is Sclera) is commonly called the ‘white of the eye’. The biggest mistake you can make is to leave the ‘white of the eye’ white, when the entire eye is in shadow. The Iris, Cornea, and Pupil Structure of the Iris and Cornea The Pupil It’s important to remember that the pupil is on the iris, not the cornea. Shading the Iris, Cornea, and Pupil Understanding the structure of these forms is important for when you start shading them. The Eyelids. 11 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives (Softwares) Editor’s note: For a newer, updated version of this post, check it out here.

11 Free Adobe Photoshop Alternatives (Softwares)

At the point this article was created, Adobe Photoshop CS3 still cost about USD $649 per copy. I think it’s safe to say that not everyone will afford to get a copy or willing to get a copy if all one need to do is just basic image editing stuff. That’s probably one of the main reason why there’s still a fairly large crowd out there actively looking for free alternatives to Photoshop to help them in their daily basic design jobs. If you are not going into advance image editing, you should know that there’s always free software out there capable to perform what Photoshop can. There’s also free web services that allows you to perform basic image editing online.

24 best free online photo editing tools for everyone. Photo editing is fun.

24 best free online photo editing tools for everyone

As a picture worth a 1000 words, even a minor touch up or tweak can change the appeal and impression of it. Professional photo editing is not that easy and not everyone can do it. However there are some really cool free and online photo editing tools that are very easy to use and one can do great with their photos without any experience of professional photo editing. Creativity is the only hurdle that is in between and above all you don’t need to install them on your PC/Mac. Just open them in a web browser and start doing great with your photos. Adobe Photoshop Express takes no time at all to make good photos look great and great photos look amazing—and then show them off via web galleries and favorite sharing sites.

Easily edit and enhance your photos with Photoshop Express Editor. Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. It’s fast, easy, and fun. With LUNAPIC, you can edit your profile pictures for MySpace and Facebook! 50 Things Everyone Should Know. By Mark and Angel Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life.

50 Things Everyone Should Know

To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one. While not totally comprehensive. The Online Learning Blog from Study2U. Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television.

The Online Learning Blog from Study2U

Although judging from some of the websites we’ve come across that assumption is cast into doubt. Here’s some of the sites we like that might get your brain to sit up and listen. Ted A conference that started in 1984 bringing together experts in technology, entertainment and design quickly grew into so much more. The conference itself is invitation only, but the website features all the talks at the conference in high res video format. New Scientist The New Scientist website carries new articles from the magazine as well as the NS archive of over 76,000 pieces.

Big Think The Big Think website is a collection of ‘global thought leaders’ who offer their thoughts and analysis on world events and other important developments.