How to Draw the Nose Update 09-26-2012 – Above is a video version of this tutorial. 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. Minor Planes of the Bridge The Glabella is shaped like a keystone. Minor Planes of the Ball The ball of the nose isn’t perfectly round, but has very distinct plane changes. Minor planes of the Nostrils The nostrils, also called wings, curl under themselves similar to the septum. Drawing the Nose 4. Made a video version of this tutorial.
Drawing Charicature Hands This short tutorial is a just a small taste of a larger and much more in-depth book I wrote called The Mad Art of Caricature! The book is 175 full-color pages, lavishly illustrated and contains greatly expanded explanations of the concepts presented in this 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. How to Draw Hands Easily the most asked question I get is “how do you draw caricatures?”. Next to faces, hands are probably the most expressive and intricate part of the human form. I’m a cartoonist at heart, so the hands I draw are not realistic hands by most definitions. Breaking Down Hand Structure Not really much to it, is there? Relationships of Hand Structure
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. 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. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you. Traditional Drawing Tutorials Marilyn Portrait TutorialA truly fantastic drawing tutorial to learn how to draw a portrait of Marilyn Monroe with pencil. Traditional Drawing Tips & Techniques It's done.
Tutorials 1. Tone Specs -- Lisa Hutchinson 2. Menus in Manga Studio Debut (new)-- Brian Jeffrey Durham. TONE SPECS for Manga Studio Ex 3.0 by Lisa Hutchinson Manga Studio This is a VERY BASIC tone application guide originally used for Shelter of Wings, Vol 1, with slight modifications. There are different ways to apply tones in MS; if you know of faster ways, let us know. We want the LEAST AMOUNT OF TONES with the most effect for each image, so the same tone can be used for face, hair, clothing, etc. Don’t overkill! Please keep a list of tone “Favorites” in the Tone window that you can use over and over again, specifically for faces, certain aspects of characters, clothing. Applying TONES: Open an existing template, import psd image and adjust into frame OR Create a new template, draw image with pen tools (etc.) These are the palettes I always keep open: Tones Layers Hand tool options Layers properties Tools A good simple tutorial is in the User’s Guide under “HOW TO APPLY TONES”. Things to avoid:
Banksy - Guerilla art wrapped in mystery and controversy [35 pics Banksy Truck Photo credit: Banksy Banksy, an anonymous England based graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter, is probably the most popular, yet most mysterious, urban street artist in the world. He has dozens of celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera. Hint: Use “J” and “K” keys (after the page finish loading) to navigate from picture to picture. Banksy art: Picnic At the guerilla artist Banksy’s L.A. show in 2006, Angelina Jolie spent nearly $400,000 on three pieces of his work. Banksy art: Laugh now but one day we’ll be in charge Banksy art: The bad artist imitate, the good artist steal Photo credit: Banksy Banksy street art: escaping Banksy art: Maid Banksy art: Choppers with pink ribbon Banksy art: Flowerchucker Photo credit: Banksy Banksy art: Attacking carts Banksy art: Moisturizing Banksy street art: Graffiti cleaner Graffiti depicting graffiti removal by Banksy. Banksy street art: Naked man Banksy street art: Death Banksy portrait
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! Um. Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures. Foreshortening Tricks Hi folks! Tutorial Tuesday is going to be a basic one – I’m a bit under the weather currently so this may not be the best post, but I want to give you something that I feel is important in the world of drawing – some pointers on foreshortening. Check this out. Foreshortening is basically an optical illusion created from a compressed looking drawing in perspective. There’s several ways artists choose to render their drawings using foreshortening. Receding Plane Technique Scruffy Ronin uses a method that relies on a drawing a flat plane that recedes into space as a boundary. Five Points in Foreshortening Here’s another basic set of rules you should follow when working with foreshortening. Size, Overlapping Shapes, and Surfaces This brief little tutorial from Gene Kelly illustrates some quick and easy methods to apply the “textbook” techniques that I showed above. Blocks and Circles There you have it – tutorials within a tutorial (sort of). See you next week.
Mascot Design In Real Time Hello, this is Sergio Ordóñez from SOSFactory and this time I'm going to talk about my workflow used to design mascots for websites. This process in this article was described in real time as I created the designs. Let's look at this more closely. This article was originally published on Psdtuts in September of 2008. Introduction This time I wrote this post as the job was being developed. Also, notice this is not a Photoshop tutorial where I explain everything in depth (for that I already wrote a really detailed tutorial about mascot design in Photoshop). About the Client I want to keep your attention, so to give it a mysterious touch, I'll just drop some info: Client: Mafia Death, an online game based on mafia stories.Order: Design of five characters and design of logotype. Descriptions: The Boss: The family’s chief, he only has to raise his eyebrow and you are a dead man. Summary Day 1: Sketching the First Three Characters The Boss: I think this one is great, it is exactly what we need.
lolita_handbook: Sewing ♥Fabrics♥The lolita fabric of choice is typically nice cotton and other natural fibers. Microsuede or high quality velvet is occasionally used for classic lolita styles (such as by Mary Magdalene), and wool is often used for winter coats. Polyester and other synthetic fabrics are unusual. Solids - honestly any color will work for the most part as long as it's pretty and elegant. Puke green is probably out, and lime green is a bit wonky, but like a nice muted green is wonderful. Prints - most loli prints tend to be floral, but if you find a really cute fabric with little cakes or ballet shoes then that can also be a great print to use. ♥Trims♥Lace - see guide below Ruffles Pintucks Ribbons and bows Motifs and appliques - there are tons of good loli motifs to work into your outfit, I'll list a few here with some examples. Animals:♥ ♥ ♥ Cakes/Deserts:♥ Cards♥ Crosses:♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Crowns:♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Fairy Tale:♥ Flowers:♥ Fruit:♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Musical Notes:♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Skulls:♥ ♥ ♥Also pretty good:(Beading)
Andrea Joseph (Weekly Story Theme: Romance) There is no other love like an illustrator’s hand and its pen. These two spend hours together everyday, inseparable, and when they are not together, the hand years for the cool grip of its beautiful slender pen. Andrea Joseph hand knows this feeling well, and his hand and its pen have been committed to each other for years now, and now on Creative Tempest they renew their vows.
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. 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. 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. A Block as the Jaw and Cheek Bones Attach the shape of the jaw. Constructing From Any Angle Step 1 – Determine the angle of the ball The angle of the head is established at the very beginning of the drawing with the ball. X Axis - The up and down tilt is established by the angles of the horizontal and vertical lines in the oval. Y Axis - The direction the head is turning (left or right) is established by the width of the oval. Step 2 – Find the thirds Step 3 – Add the jaw