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Wedding Photography Tips Only the Very Brave Will Attempt It -
Lance Carr (302)   
There's nothing worse than terrible shots or no shots of one of the most momentous events in a person's life. A wedding may be made in heaven but disaster is in the details. Skip some important points and you can wish you were in the trashcan with the rubber chicken and leathery lettuce. Here are... ( added 1 year 25 days ago.) |
Understanding Abstract Art - One Artist's Perspective -
 - Keith Garrow (32)   
"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of
a bird? people who try to
explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree."
-Pablo Picasso
What Picasso says about understanding art is
very relevant to how we approach abstract paintings. Many people think... ( added 1 year 34 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Facial Hair -
- Remi Engels (1,320)  
Remi Engels
A mustache or a beard usually has lots of fullness. Therefore, it must be built up in layers. As with all feature in a pencil portrait, you need to look at facial hair in terms of shapes and not just in terms of outlines. The values are also of critical importance especially in relation to the... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
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Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Ears -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Drawing ears is not easy. There are many different parts to an ear. However, here is where working with a grid can help you enormously. If you work with a small grid, the problem is reduced to that of a puzzle with plenty of hints as to how the pieces fit together.
Here are some guidelines... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Eyes -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
As with all features of the human face, it is important that we do not draw the preconceived ideas we have about eyes. The eyes are the windows to a person's soul and reflect much of the emotionality and personality of that person. Therefore, they must be drawn exactly how they are.
There is... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Hair -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Drawing hair is not all that difficult but it does take quite a bit of time to make the result to look real and natural. In fact, it usually takes two to three times longer to do the hair than it does to do the rest of the portrait. So, do not get frustrated and know that you will have to spend... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Hands -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Drawing hands takes much practice. Hands are typically quite complex with many smooth transitions between darks and lights. Shapes overlap and need to be studied very carefully to yield acceptable realism. There are also lots of edges, crevices, and creases.
It is imperative that you do not... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Composition -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Composition refers to the manner in which your subjects are positioned relative to each other on the page. More formally, it is the arrangement of forms and spaces within the format of the page.
* Balance The main characteristic of a good composition is that it creates a feeling of balance... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Multiple Subjects -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
When it comes to multiple subjects in one pencil portrait drawing, there are two possibilities: (1) all subjects appear in one photograph; (2) the subjects appear in different photographs. We will be concerned with the second possibility.
It will not take long before you will get a request to... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Backgrounds -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Backgrounds are useful in enhancing your vision of how you want to represent your subjects. Backgrounds can soften the presentation or make it more energetic or dramatic.
However, whatever you do, make sure that the background works with the subject and not against it. Also, do not forget that... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Cropping -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Cropping is a presentation technique that displays a subject within the borders of your paper and often involves a truncation of some parts of the subject. For example, part of a hat or an arm may be truncated or cropped.
Cropping is a device that can be applied often to great dramatic effect.... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Montage -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
A montage is somewhat like a collage. On one piece of paper you put together any number of related subjects. However, instead of pasting them onto the paper you will draw them.
A montage is often used to tell a story about the person you are drawing. It includes references to well-known events... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Clothing -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Drawing clothing can be quite challenging. The challenge usually centers on the drawing of the folds. There is a lot of reflected light, lots of darks, and many lights. But it is exactly this variety of values that makes the drawing of clothes very attractive but also challenging. Learning to... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Preparing a Photograph -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Once you acquired an acceptably clear subject photograph from your customer, what do you do with it? Well, you prepare that photograph to be used as a reference for your pencil portrait drawing effort. The preparation procedure I will describe works well for me and I have been using it for years.... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Line Drawing -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
In this article I will discuss the importance of a line drawing in producing a pencil portrait drawing. I will also discuss the details of rendering such a drawing. We start with a gridded reference image that has the same dimensions as the drawing we will produce. By the way, a gridded image... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on Shading -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
As soon as you have finished a line drawing of your subject you are ready to start with the shading process. The purpose of shading is to give your subject three-dimensionality. When you are done with shading, your subject should look like it is anchored in space and is not just an object in a... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Nose -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
The nose is crucial in relation to the overall scale of all other facial features of your pencil portrait subject. An incorrectly drawn nose will very much affect the likeness of your subject. The nose is also a study in shading and blending.
Here are some issues you should keep in mind when... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait Drawing Tips on the Mouth -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
The mouth, like the nose, must be seen as a shape and not as a contour. Drawing the mouth involves all the elements of shading: cast shadow, halftone, shadow edge, reflected light, and full light.
Here are some items to pay attention to when drawing a mouth:
* Pit - A corner of the mouth is... ( added 1 year 84 days ago.) |
Silversmithing: Tools of the Trade, the Block -
- Dianne Lehmann (5,182)   
Dianne Lehmann
Some time ago, I wrote and overview of all the basic tools required to do silversmithing. Since then, I have had requests to write about all the various tools in greater detail. I've already written one covering the hammer. This article is about all the various types of blocks and their uses.
... ( added 1 year 86 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait DrawingTips on Obtaining a Photograph -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
The first challenge you will face with any portrait commission is acquiring a suitable subject photograph from your customer.This subject could be a person, a pet, or a building.
Now is the time to be a little bit assertive. You should always insist on certain minimum requirements regarding... ( added 1 year 87 days ago.) |
Pencil Portrait DrawingTips on Supplies -
- Remi Engels (1,320)
Remi Engels
Whether or not your pencil portrait turns out to be a masterpiece depends to a large extend on the type and quality of your drawing tools. This is, of course, true for any craft. In this article, I will present an overview of the tools the professional pencil artist uses when drawing a pencil... ( added 1 year 88 days ago.) |
Making A Memory Quilt For An Alzheimers' Patient -
- Billie Fultz (32)
Memory quilts for Alzheimers patients are a terrific thing to make. It is a quilt with photographs of the patients loved ones on it. The reasoning behind the quilt is very simple: to keep them grounded in this time to the family. When someone is afflicted with Alzheimers' they lose their latest... ( added 1 year 92 days ago.) |
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How to Avoid Overuse of the Achilles Tendon in Sports and Ballet -
- Dianne M. Buxton (3,708)
One of the too-common dance injuries is that of the achilles tendon. Runners and other athletes in sports training also suffer some over use inflammation, and even rupture of the achilles tendon. This tendon depends on muscle strength in the calf and the foot, to retain proper use. Following are... ( added 1 year 97 days ago.) |
Stop Motion Animation: Nine Creative and Easy Techniques -
- Will Kalif (10,985) 
Will Kalif
If you want to draw some stop motion animation but don't know what to do this article will help. Often times people think you have to spend endless hours drawing the same figures over and over with just a slight change between each drawing. And while this is true there are lots of creative... ( added 1 year 97 days ago.) |
Silversmithing: Tools of the Trade, the Hammer -
- Dianne Lehmann (5,182)
Dianne Lehmann
Some time ago, I wrote an overview of all the basic tools required to do silversmithing. Since then, I have had requests to write about all the various tools in greater detail. This then, following the order of presentation in the original article, is the first of many articles to cover the basic... ( added 1 year 102 days ago.) |
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