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Whether beginning a career in photography, or just trying to snap off a few pictures of friends and family it is important to pick out the right camera. There are two basic types of digital cameras: Point-and-Shoot cameras and Single-Lens-Reflex (SLR) cameras. Point-and-shoot digital cameras most often are compact and have permanent lenses. SLR cameras are almost always more bulky than ...

I recall how sloppy my drawings looked until I stumbled across a book that revolutionized my technique. It was a book by Lee Hammond, how to draw lifelike portraits from photographs. She taught how to use "blended pencil" to achieve near photographic results. After reading her book, I drove up to the Hobby Lobby in Murfreesboro Tennessee, and bought a ...

Make Art Matter for the planet   As an environmental artist I want to show people and encourage them to see how much they waste by reusing commodities in artwork for public displays. In doing this I feel like we can open humanity up to broaden and stimulate our awareness and really start to pay more attention to our environment around ...

So you've written a script or decided on an idea, but what do you do next? Well I'll tell you what you don't do. You don't just go out and shoot with no conception of the shots you need to get your story across. There are a few different shot designations that are used most frequently: The Establishing Shot (ES) This ...

Making a movie is not about just picking up a camera and hitting record. There are millions of factors to consider. Have you written a script or an outline at least? Who is going to star in your movie? What are you gong to do for lighting? Do you need to dress a set? There are schedules, budgets, grip gear, midgets, ...

Teachers across disciplines and grade levels have discovered that writing essays and research papers can serve many purposes in the classroom. Writing-across-the-curriculum theorists suggest a variety of write-to-learn activities, from free writing in journals to summarizing class lectures to working with papers through multiple drafts. In the composition literature, support for these activities has come largely from intuitive arguments about the ...

I remember that I first saw the dotted tunnel in one picture posted in fubiz.net which spared my idea on creating this tutorial. The graphic effect is kind of cool so I decided to try replicate the look and found out that it’s simple to do. The main tools used for this tutorial are the Pen Tool, Transform Tool and Blend ...

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I recently got an email asking me two questions. (I’ll tackle the second one in a later post.) But the first one was: “I am interested in learning about techniques people employ for developing better connection with color - special exercises? do you keep library?” !http://artbistro.monster.com/nfs/artbistro/photos/0016/7351/paint_mix2.jpg! I thought this was a great question. And you all know how much I love ...

One Grumpy Dude This is one grumpy dude. He was created in Adobe Illustrator with the brush tool. I don’t use the program a lot, but when it comes to “inking” my drawings, I find it very useful. Here’s an in-depth look into the making of this cute little grandpa guy including: * How to place a sketch into a new ...

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To make progress with any of your drawings, you'll need to know and evaluate this drawing first.  It can be unbelievably challenging to be impartial about your own drawing as it is often difficult to see the faults in a drawing you have been looking at for hours. If you had seen the faults earlier, you would have corrected them!  It ...

This is a tutorial that gives a quick rundown on modeling an aircraft from blueprint plans in Wings 3D. I consider this an "lower intermediate" level tutorial, since it doesn't cover all the basics and assumes the user already has some understanding of how the software works. What it does cover is box-modeling techniques used to create "mechanical" models using Wings ...

You may be disturbed and demoralized because you have just started to learn how to draw and you are discovering it to be tougher than you believed it was. Or you may be attempting a new theme or a new method or a new drawing medium and your labour are not meeting your hopes. You might also sense that your drawing ...

If you want to learn how to draw, you will discover soon, you want some support. Skilled assistance (in one way or other). When browsing around in the internet or hunting the local library you will observe. There are various approaches to get on track in becoming skilled at drawing. You will discover books, DVDs, workshops and drawing coaching or even ...

 I first discovered scratchboard art by accident. It was at the clearance aisle in an art store. Here was a little kit that had the scratch pen missing. As a consumer I could not resist the bargain price and as an artist I could not hold back my curiosity and now I am an addict. Scratchboard art or scraperboard art is ...

  BUDGET FOR YOUR GARDEN By Thomas Murrell, MBA, APS (876 Words)   Have you ever thought about how much it costs to maintain your garden? Most people never give it much thought - spending the odd day in the garden when they have time and impulse buying plants at the local nursery.   But if you're serious about saving money ...

    Convert your high-quality digital photos into low-res Polaroids   October 14th, 2009 Photographs. What started out way back when as pictures on tin or glass plates had progressed through the years to the point where there's actually noting behind the lens now—no plates, no film, just an electronic image sensor. Makes for great pictures, but it does lose a ...

Taking a sketchbook on one's travels is a stimulating way for an artist to add another dimension to the trip as shown in this article I wrote and a trip to the Mediterranean. It gave me the ability to not only keep a daily journal, but to create watercolor sketches that became illustrations once I added pen and ink to them.  ...

How to Do Ukrainian Egg Painting©  by Arlene Wright-Correll This past week I read how my Pen Pal Leonie, in Australia, had a miserable failure coloring her Easter eggs with a wax process. Well, the Calvary has arrived, Leonie. I decorate eggs using the Ukrainian Egg Painting method. Now this is a lot of work, dear heart, so if you intend to do an ...