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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…

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