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  • Free Download: How To Draw Manga Eyes
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    Free Download: How To Draw Manga Eyes

    Do you consider yourself a Weeaboo, an Otaku, or a, so called, Wapanese? Are you looking to become one? This article doesn't go into such depths but it might get you started in your path to ostracization. Sour joking aside...! You will learn how to draw the vibrant manga eyes you've always wanted to draw (for whatever ostracizing reason...!) following these simple steps:

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  • 8 Free Tutorials to Get Started in Watercolor
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    8 Free Tutorials to Get Started in Watercolor

    Learn the basics of this technique and digitize your creations with watercolor with these tutorials It doesn’t matter if you are starting or are already charting your path in watercolor painting, it is always good to receive advice and learn new tricks from the professionals who work it every day. These 5 tutorials to start, develop and improve your talent in watercolor are essential for you if you are one of those who enjoy the chance and unpredictability of watercolor:

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw from Your Imagination
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    Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw from Your Imagination

    Learn to draw flora and fauna using the imaginary as a reference to find your own style with Violeta Hernández The best way to learn to draw is to familiarize yourself with the technique through exercises that help us to experiment with different materials and visual references. Once you master the first phase, Violeta Hernández proposes that you go even further to find your own stamp: draw from your imagination. What does that mean? To create from what you remember and the sensations an animal or a bunch of flowers have made you feel, for example. In this process, memory, creativity and a desire to let yourself go, will be key. Below, designer and illustrator Violeta Hernández (@soyvioleta), will show you some key tips on how to draw from your memories and the results of her own adventures.

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  • Watercolor Tutorial: How to Paint with Watercolor Brushes and Pencils
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    Watercolor Tutorial: How to Paint with Watercolor Brushes and Pencils

    Naranjalidad teaches us different techniques to mix colors with brushes or watercolor pencils, step by step Watercolor offers a wide array of creative possibilities. You only need a brush and a few pigments to get going. Choosing the right colors, brushes and techniques is crucial for bringing the final work to life.

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  • Free Download: Concept Art Brushes
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    Free Download: Concept Art Brushes

    Finding the perfect tools to breathe life into your creative visions is absolutely essential. Today, we're thrilled to share some exciting news with you: Even Amundsen, a seasoned illustrator, character artist, and content creator, generously offers a collection of concept art brushes that won't cost you a dime.

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw Facial Details
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    Illustration Tutorial: How to Draw Facial Details

    Learn these techniques to add detail and realism to your illustrated portraits with José Rosero Realistic portraiture is returned to time and again throughout art history. It may be intimidating at first but you can learn how to do it, little by little, starting with some basic concepts that will allow your drawings to become progressively more complex. José Rosero (@rosero), visual artist and teacher, is an expert in portraiture with techniques ranging from pencil to quill to Indian ink. He knows better than most how to draw all the accents of a face. In the following video tutorial, he reviews some of the most common facial features, so you can learn how to draw them from scratch:

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  • Tutorial Anatomical drawing: how to draw a hand
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    Tutorial Anatomical drawing: how to draw a hand

    Learn how to draw hands and fingers in an anatomically correct way with Zursoif (Miguel Bustos Gómez). Drawing hands is one of the most recurrent difficulties faced by artists. The amount of bones, joints, muscles and tissues that compose them make them a challenge when it comes to capture them on paper. Luckily the artist Zursoif (@zursoif), an anatomical illustrator, explains step by step how to draw a hand starting with the bones and ending with the muscles and skin. Get pencil and paper ready, and let's go!

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  • Procreate Tutorial: Inking Technique
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    Procreate Tutorial: Inking Technique

    Learn the technique and tricks for inking your sketch in Procreate, as well as the best brushes to do it, with Óscar Lloréns. Full of resources, Procreate allows you to give a perfect finish to your creations through the use of simple and intuitive tools. Illustrator Óscar Lloréns (@ollorens), whose work includes creations for Coca-Cola, the United Nations and Cirque du Soleil, as well as artistic pieces exhibited in Spain, Mexico, France and China, is an expert in this versatile program and teaches us the inking technique. This is a classic drawing method that consists of inking your sketch and then coloring the inside of the line. This technique is often used in classic comics and manga. Find out more below:

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  • Drawing tutorial: how to use the chiaroscuro technique to draw a picture
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    Drawing tutorial: how to use the chiaroscuro technique to draw a picture

    Marco Mazzoni shows how to use this technique to create shadows and lights in a portrait In art, chiaroscuro is the use of strong contrasts between light and shadow, creating depth and drama. Beyond giving a sense of volume, it also draws the viewer's attention to the focus of the drawing. Some artists known for its use include Goya, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, and it is a technique that is still widely used, not only in paintings, but also in film and photography. In this tutorial, artist and illustrator Marco Mazzoni (@marcomazzoniart) demonstrates how you can transform a simple drawing of a face using the chiaroscuro technique to add shadows. Using just a pencil and a piece of paper, the result can be a work of art in itself or serve as the basis for a more detailed and colorful composition.

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  • Top 10 Picture Book Examples
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    Top 10 Picture Book Examples

    To begin our journey, let's set ourselves at the very start! As some of you might already know, the production of illustrated books dates back to the earliest days of bookbinding. Perhaps the most important tradition of medieval art in regard to the development of picture books is the Poor Man's Bible, which sought to make illustrations of important Biblical events so that they could be understood by the illiterate. Nowadays, modern picture books often aim to aid with children's language development or understanding of the world from the author's perspective.

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  • Illustration Tutorial: exercises to stimulate creativity
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    Illustration Tutorial: exercises to stimulate creativity

    Learn these techniques to unlock creativity and free your hand to draw, with Weberson Santiago Creativity is a simple process that, although it sometimes requires a lot of effort to come up with good creative solutions, it can be practiced. In illustration, for example, in addition to practice, a wide repertoire of references and influences is necessary. This is how an illustrator defines his or her authorial style through lines, colors and sensations capable of attracting all eyes.

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  • Procreate Tutorial: how to draw Frankenstein
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    Procreate Tutorial: how to draw Frankenstein

    Discover tips to illustrate, step by step, Frankenstein in Procreate for Halloween 2021 with illustrator Rafael Sarmento. The creation of Frankenstein is part of the wide range of classic monsters that exist in the cultural imaginary of horror. Although Mary Shelley's creature has become an icon of popular culture, there are still some aspects about it that continue to confuse people, from mistakenly calling it by the name of its creator (Frankenstein) to illustrating it as green when, in her book, Shelley describes its skin as yellowish and translucent. Illustrator Rafael Sarmento (@rafsarmento) is fascinated by creating fantastic narratives in his illustrations. Stories contained in a single image, where details, characters and environments are the subtle narrators of mythical sagas in distant worlds and times, universes where science fiction and fantasy intermingle in such a way that we can barely differentiate the incredibly advanced technology from the pulsating magic that permeates everything. Over the last decade, he has worked with clients such as Wizards of the Coast, Riot Games, ArtStation, Universal Pictures, DeviantArt, Procreate, ImagineFX, MaxPacks, among many others. Rafael is also cover artist for Dark Horse Comics and DC Comics and sometimes creates his own music.

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  • Free Download: Card Templates
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    Free Download: Card Templates

    Have you ever envisioned the perfect greeting card, with the correct balance of playful irony, heartwarming cuteness and personal touch that will make your loved ones astonished, mesmerized, perplexed and borderline perish (from an overdose of clever cuteness) with your witty and affectionate writing and design? With Lauren Radley’s free templates, you can materialize your twistedly cute wishes this holidays, or valentines, or invented festivity of your choosing!

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  • Procreate tutorial: how to digitize your comic book sketches
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    Procreate tutorial: how to digitize your comic book sketches

    Learn step by step how to redraw, refine and polish the vignettes that will shape your comic, with Charles Glaubitz Nowadays, virtually all comic book artists have to know how to work both analogically, with pencil and paper, and digitally, taking advantage of the drawing tools offered by programs such as Manga Studio or, more recently, the iPad software Procreate. Procreate allows us to import our sketches and work on them with a wide range of brushes that we can customize to our liking. Mastering it is an essential skill for any good self-respecting comic artist, and the good thing is that its simple interface makes things a lot easier. In the following video tutorial, comic creator and multidisciplinary artist Charles Glaubitz (@mrglaubitz) shows us step by step the process to import a sketch on paper to Procreate and start working with it, to get a fully digitized comic. Discover it below:

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  • Free PDF Tutorial: How to Draw a Chibi Character
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    Free PDF Tutorial: How to Draw a Chibi Character

    Dive into our step-by-step guide and learn how to draw your very own adorable Chibi character. Download your free PDF now and let the artistic journey begin! Hey there, art lovers! Are you ready to embark on an exciting adventure into the enchanting world of Chibi characters? Well, you're in for a treat! We've crafted a delightful tutorial that will guide you through the steps of creating your very own Chibi character. Whether you wield a digital pen or cherish the traditional pencil and paper, this tutorial caters to all creative souls. Get ready to dive in!

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  • Iconic Posters to Celebrate the International Human Rights Day
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    Iconic Posters to Celebrate the International Human Rights Day

    A selection of posters that highlight different rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, published on December 10, 72 years ago The right to life, private property, and the use of your mother tongue. The right to work, education, digital inclusion, and housing. The right to fair and equitable treatment by the State, to a better distribution of income, to be able to consume and participate in the economy, to enjoy social security. The 30 articles –plus a preamble– that make up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a historic civilizing landmark published by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, contain some of the basic principles that have guided –or should guide– human and social relations since the Enlightenment. Since these rights are often not respected, each year the celebration of International Human Rights Day, instituted in 1950, has a markedly vindictive character. And, for some time now, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has begun to propose official themes each year. This 2020, for example, the slogan is Recover Better - Stand up for Human Rights.

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  • 10 Free Websites for Portrait Reference Photos
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    10 Free Websites for Portrait Reference Photos

    Discover these free websites offering a range of portrait reference photos and take your illustrations to the next level Studying the shapes, lighting, proportions, and details of real-life models is one of the best ways to practice your drawing skills. We can also rely on photographs, which is often a more convenient way of working with different subjects. This is especially the case when it comes to portrait drawing. If you find good photo references, you’ll have a continuous stream of inspiration that allows you to practice drawing faces with a range of unusual features. We have compiled this list of the best reference photo websites for sourcing different faces so you can become a portrait artist. LIFE Photo Archive If you would like to focus on drawing notable faces from history, this archive created by LIFE magazine (and developed together with Google) offers up millions of photographs. It contains material from key moments in politics and entertainment, all of which have been shot using incredible lighting and interesting angles. This collection is limited to non-commercial use.

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