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Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect. Creating a old comic book effect for your photos is easy and the results are visually appealing.

Give Your Photos a Retro Comic Book Effect

More fun is achieved when adding captions to your photos using comic book fonts and design elements. This tutorial will show you how to give a comic book look to your photos using a couple of filters and some additional decorations. Process preview Read tutorial at Creative Closeup… 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design. Advertisement You don’t like to scroll?

80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design

Be prepared. (We warned you.) Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfill three basic tasks. 75+ Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design. In this article tripwire magazine presents an overview of more than 75 excellent free fonts you should consider using for your designs.

75+ Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design

Not all free Fonts are worth using but the Fonts listed in this article have all been picked out because they are better than the rest. Advertisement. Designing For Perfect Binding. After you upload your PDF to MagCloud, if it is over 20 pages you will have the option to select perfect binding for your print version.

Designing For Perfect Binding

Although MagCloud uses the same PDF for saddle stitch and perfect bound publications, if you plan to choose perfect binding there are a few things that are good to keep in mind while you are designing your PDF. Content Near The Spine Saddle stitch binding allows your printed copy to lay flat when it is opened, allowing all content up to the inside edge of your PDF to be visible in the final print copy. Perfect bound publication are glued at the spine which results in approximately a quarter inch of the inside edge of your pages to be less visible because a perfect bound print cannot lie flat without breaking the spine.

Discussing For the Very Beginner. History has no natural divisions.

discussing For the Very Beginner

A woman living in Florence in the 15th Century did not think of herself as a woman of the Renaissance. Historians divide history into large and small units in order to make characteristics and changes clear to themselves and to students. Doodlers Anonymous: Doodle Art - Page 5. Long-time friends, Nophar Haimovitz (fashion/jewelry designer) and Hodaya Louis (fashion illustrator) have collaborated for the image launch of Reason To Be Pretty's latest collection of jewelry, and it's a match made in heaven.

Doodlers Anonymous: Doodle Art - Page 5

Their styles blend perfectly, take a closer look and you'll notice how subtle and elegant Hodaya's illustrated women wear the photographed jewelry of Nophar's designs. It's so great to see two different forms of art come together like this. Celebrate their work by visiting reasontobepretty.com where you can shop the full collection and be sure to check out more of Hodaya's work over at hodayalouis.com.

Continue reading » Type Connection. DaveJay's Blog - Photoshop Shadow Effect. MAY 16th 2007 • 3 Comments I first came across this effect by John Hicks on hicksdesign.

daveJay's Blog - Photoshop Shadow Effect

It involves a shadow that slowly shrinks down into the background behind it. The end result looks somewhat like a tab, or slab of paper that is cut out of the paper and lifted up a bit. It's really a cool effect, and it establishes a nice rounded border for an element through the use of a shadow rather than an actual border line. This tutorial will show how I go about doing this effect, it mostly involves making an adjustment to the shadow of a rounded box. Here's the end result that we're shooting for: Creating the shape First step is to create a rounded box. Separate the Shadow Now, under the effects of the layer, right click (two finger click, control click, whateverver you prefer) on the 'Drop Shadow' effect and select "Create Layer". Transform Perspective of the Shadow Select the newly created shadow layer and transform the perspective by going to "Edit > Transform > Perspective".

Face tutorial by *Phobs. How I draw char. pose by *pandabaka. Giovanni Civardi - Drawing Portraits Faces And Figures. TL;DR. The second bit of advice a beginning artist usually gets is “draw from life”.

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PSG Art tutorial. Now the search begins.

PSG Art tutorial

The amount of areas it is possible to work as an LPN are basically unlimited. You can find jobs for sale in all 50 states. Recommended Free Ebooks for learning how to draw and paint - Loomis, Bammes, Speed. These are really valuable sources of knowledge for learning how to draw and paint.

Recommended Free Ebooks for learning how to draw and paint - Loomis, Bammes, Speed

I recommend you study these books daily and apply what you learn into studies and your artwork. I recommend you study in this order but it’s really up to you. 1. Fun with a Pencil 2. Successful Drawing 3. Practice and Science of Drawing 4. How To Digital Paint. Basics of Portraiture. Okay, here is a tutorial lesson thing I gave my highschool art club. It is on the basics of portraiture, and while it is a huge and complex topic, I mainly want to get across one point—DON’T FOCUS ON DETAILS OF THE FEATURES, RATHER TREAT THE HEAD AS A WHOLE AND USE VALUE TO REPRESENT IT. Perhaps a bit wordy and not too clear.

Portraits for Absolute Beginners (Image Heavy) Nathan Fowkes Art. Home. Basic Pencil Shading by ~Snigom. Gurney Journey. I sketched a man sitting alone in the diner yesterday. Www.angelfire.com/art3/kchendemos/ Journey of an Absolute Rookie: Paintings and Sketches - Page 67. Drawing1. I know you are all looking at this image and wondering, uh you lost it or something? I see no fancy colors, no stylized brushwork ugh argh why waste my time with this? Well, I think you’ll all be surprised in where this goes. So here we go. The thought process behind all this is simply, simple form. Perspective Made Easy. Elements of perspective. In the traditional account, Brunelleschi either discovered or verified linear perspective by literally painting views of buildings onto a mirror or windowpane.

This "draw on glass" approach was probably not the method Brunelleschi actually used, but it fits well with the idea that a perspective painting is a mirror or window view of the world, and it soon became the standard way to convince drawing students that perspective really works, even when the scope of the problem is no bigger than a table top. one more convert to perspective from Charles Hayter, Introduction to Perspective (1813) Pperspective made easy by ernest norling. Making Your Video Look Like Film. Cinematic Magic – Making Your Video Look Like Film There are several things you can do in post-production to make your video look like film, and I’m going to talk with you about them in this article.

But it’s important to understand that video, by nature, will never be film. Just like they’ve made electronic instruments such as pianos and drums that sound so close to their ‘real’ counterparts that only the most trained ear can hear the difference and only the most astute player can feel it, there is still a difference. The Way Film Looks. How To Make A Video. Video 101 on Vimeo Video School. The Basics: Point Perspective by *Shattered-Earth on deviantART. The BASICS : Perspective by *Shattered-Earth on deviantART. Figure & Gesture Drawing Tool. Color correction for the FILM LOOK! (all versions) Educational Alliance - Young Artists Program. The Art Students League of New York. You can start classes at any time. Register today. Download Regular Session Schedule: September 3, 2013–May 25, 2014 Registeration is currently open! Download Summer Session ScheduleMonday, June 2 – Saturday, August 16, 2014 Priority registration for summer is April 14–27.

Regular registration for summer full-time classes starts April 28. Frequently Asked Questions Student Information Form (required for students signing up for classes or workshops for the first time) Priority Registration: Closed Classes and Other Registration Information: Note: All class registration is done by phone or in person at the League. Instructors and Class Supply Lists Frequently Asked Questions The Art Students League educates students in the language and process of making art.

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