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Drawing Lessons Creating Textures

Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures

Learn how to add texture to your drawings in this entry into Diane Wright's drawing lessons series. Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures So what is texture?  We touch an object and can feel that it is smooth or rough, but how do we translate…
Pencil Artist Stuart Clark

Pencil Artist of the Week: Stuart Clark

This week’s featured pencil artist is Stuart Clark, a pencil artist from the UK who specializes in creating large-scale, life-like, highly-detailed portraits of people and animals. We actually discovered Stuart on our Facebook page, where…
Art of the Mixtape

Is the Art of the Mixtape Dead?

If you're like me, you've wondered whether the iconic "Boombox Scene" from Say Anything would've been quite so dramatic if John Cusack was holding up an MP3 player instead of a boombox that housed a mixtape. Or can you imagine High Fidelity without…
Natural History

Timberlines Explores Natural History With Hough’s American Woods

Over at Timberlines, Woodchuck has started a natural history series aimed at exploring "the history of early naturalists as well as the development of various scientific disciplines within the broad field of natural history." Below is a brief…
Drawing Websites

More Drawing Websites Every Artist Should Follow

This post is a follow-up to the post Drawing Websites Every Artist Should Follow, in which we discussed ten great drawing websites for artists looking to hone their skills and connect with other artists who are passionate about drawing. Below…
Drawing Lessons Values

Drawing Lessons: Using Light and Shadows to Create 3-Dimensional Shapes

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Drawing Lessons: Using Light and Shadows to Create 3-Dimensional Shapes What gives objects form and shape?  Light and the shadows it creates.  Since graphite creates only shades of gray, values are all we have to represent light and shadow.…
Pencil Artist Ced Nocon

Pencil Artist of the Week: Ced Nocon

This week's featured pencil artist is Ced Nocon, a self-taught comic penciler and inker living in Los Angeles, California. Ced has worked in the comic industry for over 19 years and has had his work published by comic giants like Marvel, DC…
Films for Writers

Films for Writers: Write Better with These Literary-Themed Films

I have a soft spot for literary themed films, because I admire watching a movie that is able to entertain as well as inform. Films about writing are often fun ways to get writers out of a funk and back into writing. When pushing that…
Wearable Art

Wearable Art: Customize Your Canvas Shoes

When I was in preschool, I wanted to be a pirate when I grew up. Pirates of the Caribbean was my favorite ride at Disneyland, and it has been my favorite movie since it came out. When I got a pair of Toms and decided they were just a little…

Pencil Artist of the Week: June Wright

This week’s featured pencil artist is June Wright, an animator, artist and designer from Dublin, Ireland. She has worked with studios ranging from Fox Animation and Don Bluth Studios, to Warner Bros. and MGM, and has on the feature films Anastasia,…