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White Cherry Blossom Tree Painting. It was Christmastime, last year. My daughter and I had just visited the craft store for some supplies and decided to browse around Pier One, which just happens to be next door to the craft store. They always have such a wonderful display of ornaments and I’m always on the hunt for inspiration. That’s when my daughter saw a painting she loved and asked if I could make one for her. Funny story actually. The employees of Pier One must be worried about the competition stealing their ideas as they were eyeballing me and my camera phone quite suspiciously, and Kristen was supposed to be my lookout. Instead she’s over at the other end of the store drooling over wall art.

This is the painting that she saw (pictured left, daughter’s cell phone) and the picture on the right is from the Pier One website. So here we are, fast forward 12 months and my baby girl is moving out on her own. Luck would have it that my contact at DecoArt gave me an assignment that couldn’t have had better timing. Aww! Speed Painting Online Painting Lessons Preview painting water www.timgagnon.com. Take the Ptest! Its fun. My fish died when I wasn’t home. Asked my cousin to give him a proper flushing. She sent me this. | 101funny. 30 Stunning and Inspirational Comic Covers. In the past it was rejected as a secondary form of art, the 20th century transformed comics into a mass medium. From comic strips to graphic novels, the gender has increasingly grown in number of publications and popularity.

With the expansion of the gender came the necessity of creating covers that look amazing and attract new readers. Comic book covers are not only the preview of what's under them, but stunning works of art. Sometimes it's a good idea to look for inspiration outside your usual field of action. Iron Man 2.0 #4 - Homage to Joker Cover by Lee Bermejo House of Mystery #37 Cover by Esao Andrews Batwoman #5 | Cover by J.H. Tinymediaempire. The Illustration & Design World of Zach Johnsen.

Photorealistic Pencil Drawings by Paul Lung (12 total) Lackadaisy Expressions. Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Just give me a day or two to whip something up... " Um. Sometime a lot more than two days later, I have this messy behemoth and the realization that I haven't a clue how to teach expression drawing. There's just so much material to cover, and so much of it is like intuitive language translation, I can't figure how to put it into tutorial form any more than I could draw a picture of how to speak Russian.

Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures. Ric stultz 2011. Ultimate Flash Face v0.42b. Get inspired. Get motivated. Practice. Improve your drawing skills!