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  • 13 Easy Drawing Ideas for Kids
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    13 Easy Drawing Ideas for Kids

    Drawing is a skill that allows children to express their creativity and imagination. It provides them with a sense of accomplishment and allows them to bring their ideas to life. If you're looking for simple drawing ideas to engage and entertain your little ones, we've compiled a list of 13 fantastic options that are perfect for kids of all ages. Whether your child loves animals, mythical creatures, or even food, there's something here to spark their artistic flair.

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  • Watercolor Tutorial: How To Create A Color Palette
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    Watercolor Tutorial: How To Create A Color Palette

    Learn to create a color palette for your next nature-inspired illustration project with Antonia Reyes Nature is bursting with color. A blue bird is not only blue, its feathers will mix blues and violets and spots of grey. This is why it’s important to think carefully about your color palette when drawing a subject from nature. In this tutorial, illustrator Antonia Reyes (@paraiso__perdido) explains how to create your own color palette for a nature-inspired illustration project. Discover more in the video below:

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  • Drawing Tutorial: How to Flesh Out some Loose Sketches of a Creature
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    Drawing Tutorial: How to Flesh Out some Loose Sketches of a Creature

    If you've ever been captivated by the mystical world of fantasy illustration, then you're in for a real treat. In this tutorial, we have the privilege of learning from the talented Iris Compiet, a renowned fantasy illustrator and artist hailing from the Netherlands. Iris's unique style and expertise are sure to inspire and guide you as you embark on your own creative journey. In this tutorial, Iris Compiet shares her invaluable insights on fleshing out loose sketches for captivating creatures. By honing this skill, you'll gain the ability to bring your creations to life from a variety of angles, unlocking the true potential of your artwork.

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  • How to Draw Flowers and Leaves Step by Step in 5 min (TUTORIAL)
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    How to Draw Flowers and Leaves Step by Step in 5 min (TUTORIAL)

    Learn the steps to sketch well-proportioned, symmetrical leaves and flowers on white paper, with Maya Hanisch Floral illustration, with its wavy and lively forms and infinite colors, is present in disciplines from graphic design to fine art, always balancing the freedom of nature and the control of the illustrator, who's able to create attractive patterns based on floral elements. In the following tutorial, artist and graphic designer Maya Hanisch (@mayahanisch) shows us how to sketch symmetrical and well-proportioned leaves and flowers, as a starting point for our floral compositions.

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  • Printing Tutorial: The Monotype Technique Step By Step
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    Printing Tutorial: The Monotype Technique Step By Step

    Learn to make the most of textures with monotype printing, with Ustudio Mol+Carla Monotype is a versatile technique which allows you to get creative in a different way to other artistic disciplines but, if we've never used it, we might not know where to begin. That's why illustrator and designer Mol, of Ustudio (@ustudio), who has worked with clients like Coca-Cola and Nescafé, is going to show us how it works so we can use it to give life to our sketches. Start with this video tutorial:

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  • 6 Free Tutorials to Kickstart Your Drawing Journey
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    6 Free Tutorials to Kickstart Your Drawing Journey

    Discover the best free tutorials to start drawing today. Enhance your skills with our top picks for aspiring artists! Have you ever wanted to dive into the world of drawing but didn’t know where to start? Or maybe you're looking to refine your skills with some focused guidance? We've got you covered with six fantastic tutorials that will inspire you to pick up your pencil (or stylus) and start creating. From cute animals to detailed plants, there's something here for everyone. Let's get started

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  • Tutorial Illustration: Japanese brushstrokes with Sumi-e technique
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    Tutorial Illustration: Japanese brushstrokes with Sumi-e technique

    Learn with Flor Kaneshiro the basic aspects to take into account in this Japanese illustration technique: pressure, speed, direction and rhythm The Sumi-e drawing technique, although originally always practiced with Chinese ink, has a series of strokes that can also be applied with other materials such as watercolor. Its delicate and soft strokes, which must be very controlled if we are starting in this technique, make it ideal for those who want to expand their range of skills with watercolor. In the following video, illustrator Flor Kaneshiro (@florkaneshiro) explains the most important considerations: pressure, speed, direction and rhythm of the brushstroke, so that you can get started in the best possible way with the Sumi-e technique.

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  • Living with mistakes
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    Living with mistakes

    When we stop fighting with our mistakes and choose to live with them, a new attitude appears that relates the illustrator with his own imperfect work, with new, much healthier and, above all, much lighter ties. When we deny and try to harshly correct our mistakes, a self-demandingness can appear that if we let it grow too much, it can pull us, first a little and then a lot, until we deviate and leave us in a place where it becomes more and more difficult to feel the enjoyment of doing something as noble as drawing. Fighting so much with the mistakes can become an obstacle for creation, also supposing an extra load of stress that we are already pulling and bringing a fog for a mind that, now more worried about achieving something, almost forgets to experience something. To stop fighting with our own mistakes allows us to open a kinder space so that the next time we “make a mistake” we can take the time to consider the possibility of living with them and also consider the possibility of including them as part of our work. Accepting that these mistakes are in themselves the flip side of every success and that, because of this, successes and mistakes make us the creative that we are, creates the possibility of trying to create a dialogue (and perhaps a style) using both sides of the coin, knowing that mistakes more often reveal the most honest aspects of each person. Does this mean to stop looking for constant improvement? Never, but it does mean a change in the attitude with which we choose to improve. We can lighten our quest for improvement by changing the conflict as a starting point and move to a much calmer place of acceptance where there is the peace of mind that comes from ceasing to pursue so demandingly. Drawing without the possibility of erasing, is a practice that can help us to relate back to our work. To see undeniably the things we would like to improve, to see the things we would like to throw away, to see without the possibility of hiding the things we would like to change and, also, to see the things we would like to keep. Living with mistakes in this way allows us to find ourselves again in our work. Because to stop fighting with mistakes is also to stop fighting with oneself. And to close, a practical invitation: Join my Domestika course Professional Illustration Techniques: From Sketches to Vectors where you will learn the necessary techniques, both analog and digital, to turn a draft into an editorial illustration with a professional finish, with which you feel identified. See you there! El Profe.

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  • How to Draw Clouds (the easy way) (+Free Download)
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    How to Draw Clouds (the easy way) (+Free Download)

    Follow 3 easy steps and start drawing cloudy landscapes! You might start appreciating cloudy days more, when you are able to draw them accurately! Your clouds might look like literal doo-doo right now, but that's fine! Because they do look like that sometimes! A quick tip, though: Stop making them brown! That was just my own take on clouds but if you'd like to delve even deeper, this article's download comes with a .pdf and video tutorial that will do the trick!

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Create Color Palettes from Images
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    Illustration Tutorial: How to Create Color Palettes from Images

    Learn to make color palettes for your designs from the colors and images that inspire you with Catalina Estrada The colors we choose for our illustrations say a lot about our style and give a unique touch to anything we want to represent. The one-color palette will transmit a series of sensations completely different from those that other tones would achieve. Therefore, knowing which colors we want to use in our illustrations, and being able to choose them well, as the Adobe Capture app allows us to do with images, will help us make our mark on our work. In the following video tutorial, illustrator and print designer Catalina Estrada (@catalinaestrada) explains how to use Adobe Capture and Illustrator to import color palettes from our favorite photographs, to be used in an illustration. Watch the video below:

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  • How to Draw Hands (+Free Download)
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    How to Draw Hands (+Free Download)

    So, after you understand that hands have 5 fingers each (in most cases...) and some fingers are longer than others... What else is there left to learn? The short answer is: A whole lot! The long answer is: Anatomy...! Both answers came out rather short but drawing hands takes a long time to master either way... Did I make myself clear? No...? Then you'd be better off downloading the free tutorial in this article!

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  • How to Paint a Landscape Digitally (+Free Download)
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    How to Paint a Landscape Digitally (+Free Download)

    You'd like to visit the landscape of your dreams without leaving your bedroom? Paint it digitally! Or take a nap and hope for the best... A download complete with 5 easy steps awaits you inside this article! Where could it be hidden...? I surely won't make it easy to find! How could I know you really deserve it, otherwise...? I will force you to read this whole article before you even get a taste of my priceless download! Priceless because it's free... Is that a contradiction? Hidden in Plain Sight

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