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Drawing Tutorial sites. How to Draw Caricatures: The 5 Shapes. This series of “How to Draw Caricatures” tutorials are a just a small taste of a larger and much more in-depth book I wrote called The Mad Art of Caricature!

How to Draw Caricatures: The 5 Shapes

The book is 175 full-color pages, lavishly illustrated and contains greatly expanded explanations of the concepts presented in these tutorials, as well and a great deal of additional material on caricaturing other facial features, posture, hands, expression and more, techniques on drawing from live models, doing caricature for freelance illustration and for MAD Magazine. This is a must have book for anyone interested in caricature, cartooning or humorous illustration.

You can order it online here. Part One: Basic Theory and the Five Shapes These kinds of things always start out with a definition, but “caricature” is a hard thing to pigeonhole into a single sentence. Likeness- If you can’t tell who it is supposed to be, then it is not successful. 20 Basic Illustrator Tutorials Every Beginner Should See.

Learning a new software application can be a daunting task, especially when tackling an application that’s as deep as Adobe Illustrator!

20 Basic Illustrator Tutorials Every Beginner Should See

Thankfully there’s a colection of Illustrator veterans who are generous enough to take the time to document the basics, allowing new users to grasp the initial workings and gain a know-how of the tools and core techniques. Adobe illustrator. Untitled Document. Illustrator CS5 New Features.

Illustrator CS5 is here!

Illustrator CS5 New Features

The Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Global Online Launch Event will happen at 8am PDT/11amEDT/ 5pm CEST April 12, 2010 on Adobe TV, but you can already check out some of the new features in Illustrator. Illustrator CS5 New Features Perspective Drawing Use perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective. Create the look of realistic depth and distance with snap-to guides to quickly put objects, live text, and symbols into perspective. Learn More… Beautiful Strokes. Illustration Info » Illustrator Beginner’s Series. No More Five Pointed Stars! A Comprehensive Guide: Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel. Illustrator CS5 Introduction - Drawing vector graphics (Part 11a) Spirograph. Rounded Rectangle Curled Corner Label in CS4 Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial - Professional Logo Design. Adobe Illustrator: Live Trace for Better Gradient Meshes. Radial Stripes in CS4 Illustrator. Illustrator: Easy Swirls and Spirals - Tutorial.

Illustrator CS5 Introduction - Drawing vector graphics (Part 11a) 101 Illustrator Tips & Tricks. Illustrator Training: Top 10 Time Saving Tips « Silicon Beach Training Resources. Here is a list of 10 useful time saving tips to use in Adobe Illustrator.

Illustrator Training: Top 10 Time Saving Tips « Silicon Beach Training Resources

Some of these tips may mean you have to break from your normal use of Illustrator, but getting use to them can be very rewarding in the long run. You may already know a few of these tips, or you may have some more to suggest, if you do then please leave your tip in the comments section below. New to Illustrator and want to learn more… come along to our Illustrator Training course here in Brighton, Sussex. If you already know a bit about Illustrator and want a more advanced course we can offer you a private Advanced Illustrator Training session with your own tailored course outline, call us on 01273 622272 for more details.

We also offer Photoshop Training, InDesign Training and other Print Design Training. 1 - Save and Load your Custom Colour Swatches Do you find yourself constantly searching for your usual colours or just overwhelmed with the number of available colours when you only need 3 or 4? Drawing Techniques. Lessons. 50 Facial Expressions and How to Draw Them. Online drawing community - draw online, DrawChat, competitions and tutorials. People (but mostly men) People ( mostly women) How to Draw the Nose. Update 09-26-2012 – Above is a video version of this tutorial.

How to Draw the Nose

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. The Major Planes When drawing the nose, I’ll usually start by indicating the 4 major planes – top, 2 sides, and bottom. Anatomical Information I think the anatomical shapes in the nose are really interesting. The Minor Planes It’s important to memorize the subtle plane changes in all the different part of the nose. Big Guide to Drawing the Body by `Cedarseed on deviantART. Realistic Eyes. Have trouble drawing eyes?

Realistic Eyes

Well, you’re probably not alone. Eyes are the first thing that the viewer is drawn to in a portrait. Realism Faces. Sublime pieces by Sandra Suy.

Realism Faces

Drawing Lessons - How to Draw the Portrait - Drawing Figure - Drawing Still Life. Shading Techniques. Lessons. 2 Point Perspective Drawing Tutorial. 50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing - Smashing Magazine. 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 - Smashing Magazine

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. Tutorial: Easy wrinkles and folds - Notebook In Hand.

Sketches by Sammy Chu: Pin Up and Cartoon Girls. Free Drawing Lessons- Learn How to Draw-Videos. By Matt Fussell About The Drawing Lessons You'll Find Below Looking for great drawing lessons online?

Free Drawing Lessons- Learn How to Draw-Videos

Below, you'll find tutorials on a wide range of subject matter and media. This list is updated often and most of the drawing lessons include videos. All of the demonstrations are taught to you in an easy to understand and follow format. Members have access to even more including courses, ebooks, and more! When I started TheVirtualInstructor.com, I created short, but concise videos on a variety of art-making subjects. Analytical Figure Drawing SP08. The Academy of Art university. + Basics Illustrator. How to Draw the Head From Any Angle. The Basic Forms To draw the head from any angle you must first understand its basic structure.

How to Draw the Head From Any Angle

Look past all the distracting details and visualize the underlying forms. This ability to simplify can be applied to the features of the face, but when starting the drawing you could look even further. Ignore even the features and simplify to the most basic form of the head. I use a method taught by Andrew Loomis in his book, “Drawing the Head & Hands”. The head deconstructed into its basic forms, is a sphere as the cranium and a block as the jaw and cheek bones. A Sphere as the Cranium The sides of the head are flat, so we can slice off a piece from both sides of the ball. PULP ART BOOK. Sketchbook By Scott Brundage. Somewhat bizzare, but completely brilliant is just a couple of ways to describe the sketchbook of New York based artist Scott Brundage. Where can you find more by Scott? Behance of course! Find this post useful? Check out these: Female Figure drawing. Analytical Figure Drawing SP08.

Figure &Gesture Drawing Tool - StumbleUpon. Teacher's Toolbox: Learning How To Draw. THE ART ROOM EXPLORE PAGE. Sketchbook Dump 2003-2009 on the Behance Network. Illustrator tuts. How to Draw People. The Artist's Toolkit: Explore: Line.