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30 day art challenge. Doodlers anonymous. Sticky comics. Sequential art. Xkcd comics. Darkness comic. Bird comic. Your mind. Mini food design. Shay Aaron is a brilliant artist from Israel who makes the most astonishing miniature food jewelry.

mini food design

These foodstuffs look so beautiful that we would desire to eat them. Actually, there’s a whole market out there for miniature food. Art dictionary. Celtic art - animals. Art and fiction illustrations. Before i die. What matters most to you Interactive public art project that invites people to share their personal aspirations in public.

before i die

After losing someone she loved and falling into depression, Chang created this experiment on an abandoned house in her neighborhood to create an anonymous place to help restore perspective and share intimately with her neighbors. The project gained global attention and thanks to passionate people around the world, over 1000 Before I Die walls have now been created in over 70 countries, including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Haiti, China, Ukraine, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Argentina, and South Africa.

The walls are an honest mess of the longing, pain, joy, insecurity, gratitude, fear, and wonder you find in every community, and they reimagine public spaces that nurture honesty, vulnerability, trust and understanding. The Before I Die book is a celebration of these walls and the stories behind them. Z.l. feng - landscape. Joe fenton. Architectural watercolors. Tim biskup. Illustrations. Illustrations gostco.

50 illustrations of alice. Alice in Wonderland is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.

50 illustrations of alice

It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. The film will be remade by Disney and is due for release on March 5, 2010 in Disney Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D as well as in regular theaters. Alice, as the main character of the novel, is popularly depicted wearing a pale blue knee-length dress with a white pinafore overtopping.

While in paintings of other illustrations, there are a few changes, including her attire, manner and personality. Surreal paintings. Berlin, Germany-based artist Moki finds inspiration in Japanese artist Hayao Miyazaki's work (Spirited Away) as well as in nature.

surreal paintings

Her acrylic paintings are filled with images of northern landscapes or as she describes more specifically as "isolated Scandinavian and Icelandic terrain, a subarctic frozen lake continent, untouched caves and moss meadows, and mountains sculpted into anatomical shapes by wind and water. " Moki merges humans with nature, cloaking them in lush green meadows or a calm sea of water. When asked why she combines humans with nature, Moki said, "The beings disappearing in my paintings illustrates the state of mind when you cannot distinguish between you and the other, that feeling of awareness for what surrounds you.

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Sketchbook

Palettes. #d9e8c3 #ced181 #7c8f50 #555e32 #bf867c #d4b9b9 Find The Palettes You Love turkey tones posted 11.24.11 comments 1 cocoa tones posted 11.23.11 comments 1 shelled tones posted 11.21.11 comments 3 berry fresh.

palettes

Color palette generator. Color theory. Color stuff again. Sketchbook scans. The sketchbook is—to borrow a term from the new millenniums’ popular discourse—an artist’s BFF.

sketchbook scans

It’s a diary for the visually inclined—a place where artists can most comfortably explore their personal thoughts, work out their visual needs, practice, maintain a visual history, and hopefully create the unpolished work that will eventually lead to amazing work for the world to see. But, sometimes, when we’re lucky, we get to see the process. Below are 50 beautiful sketchbook scans from 35 talented artists. Allen Sutton Mattias Adolfsson Laura More Amore David Fullarton Irena Zablotska Rafael Bertone Alena Lavdovskaya Beka Pkhakadze Christian Borku David Sossella f1x Grino Anna Rusakova Hanna Viktorsson Ignacio Veiga Irina Vinnik.

Learn to draw things. Drawing lessons. How to draw hands. So everybody knows that the hands and the fingers are one of the hardest things to draw.

how to draw hands

So here is a personal collection of different hand references, hope to enjoy it and never stop practice. Hogarth hand poses from Iron Giant (middle of page) Mickey Mouse Hand Model Sheet by Les Clark ca. 1932 Merlin hand poses via Deja View Hand drawing tut by uchuucacahuate on deviantart. Excellent hand tutorial by alexds1 on deviantart.com Mr. Useful collection of hand poses by Chrissy Fellmeth Collection of female hand poses by artrush73′s Study of the hand in minimal style. Expressions. Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this.

expressions

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. Emotions_and_facial_expression_by_cedarseed-ds1wwv.jpg (3650×3033)

Facial expressions. How to draw realistic eyes. We would like to ing you this feature tutorial by Linda Bergkvist, renowned in the digital arts community for her gorgeous portrayal of characters.

how to draw realistic eyes

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. Drawing stuff. Sketch tool.