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Native American Folktales

Keeping Up with the Coyote: Native American Folktales

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What Are Folktales For? Even if you’re not very familiar with Native American folktales, you’ve probably heard of Coyote. He’s the sly, cunning trickster figure who outwits the other characters in Navajo mythology. Crow is his usual victim,…
Pencils in Animation

The Pencil’s Place in Animation: A Guest Post from The Animation Anomaly

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Today, we have a very special guest post from civil engineer, animation enthusiast and author of The Animation Anomaly Charles Kenny. Check out his blog, follow him on Twitter and share the love in the comments section below! The Pencil's…
Comic Books and Education

Can Comic Books Be Considered “Serious” Art?

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Can comic books be considered "serious" art? Or perhaps the more appropriate question might be, "Why can't comic books be considered serious art?" Comic books have been a pervasive element of pop culture for many years. With their beginnings…
Pencil Artist Hunter Herzog

Pencil Artist of the Week Hunter Herzog

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This week’s featured artist is Hunter Herzog, a pencil artist living in California. He creates his pencil art using a variety of tools, including mechanical pencils, wood-cased Palomino pencils and woodless color pencils, and, regardless of…

Drawing Lessons for Advanced Artists: Light Movement in Drawings

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Drawing Lessons: Light Movement in Drawings INTRODUCTION These drawings look quite alive.  But their liveliness is not from detail since the detail between them is very different.  Instead, their liveliness comes from the fact they are…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Leslie Brown

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Leslie Brown, a teacher living in Olathe, Kansas. While he isn’t teaching, Leslie spends his spare time drawing everything from celebrities and athletes to landscapes and buildings. In fact, judging…
How to Draw Hair

Drawing Lessons: How to Draw Hair With The Theuer Method

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http://youtu.be/OIdCSRvp-aY Drawing Lessons: How to Draw Hair With The Theuer Method Hair comes in many shapes, sizes, twists, colors and turns. This is true for hair on people and on animals. As a result, drawing hair is difficult. How do…

Drawing Lessons: Use Focus and Detail to Sharpen Your Drawing

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Drawing Lessons: Use Focus and Detail to Sharpen Your Drawing Focus is not how clear your drawing is. Instead, the focus of your drawing is the subject. It is what you want the viewer to see. And often it is what you want the viewer to feel. I…

Drawing Lessons: Drawing Grass and Weeds with Diane Wright

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Grass and weeds are some of the most challenging nature elements to capture in a landscape drawing. It is seldom the focal point of a landscape, but if not rendered correctly, can negatively impact the rest of the scene. Grass is a supporting…

Drawing Lessons: How to Shade Across a Drawing with Mike Theuer

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Drawing Lessons: How to Shade Across a Drawing Shading a face is challenging . . . the hair, the chin, the eyes. Trickier still can be shading a face across the entire page. Let me explain in this entry into our drawing lessons series...       To…