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    Tips On What Steps To Follow To Improve Your Drawing

    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 ...
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    How To Choose The Best Books For Learning 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 ...
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    "How to Expand Your Arts and Crafts Sales from Locally to Globally or How to Sell on the Internet." ©

    "How to Expand Your Arts and Crafts Sales from Locally to Globally or How to Sell on the Internet." © by Arlene Wright-Correll In my last article we spoke about using barter to increase your arts and craft sales and I ended that article with the following words, "Each of us needs to find new ways to market our arts and ...
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    How Long Does It Take To Learn Drawing

    Almost every one of us may have speculated "when will I be drawing like a professional? When will I be proficient in drawing? How long does it take to learn to draw?" A legitimate question. We all want to make progress and hope to harvest the fruits of our labor one day. Well, it may sound appalling, but the truth is: ...
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    How to Correct Banding in Your Gradients Using Photoshop

    Important tutorial for getting rid of banding.
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    Pencil

    I always make a preliminary drawing with a 4B pencil because its soft tip gives a nice, indefinite line, does not damage the surface of the paper. It is erases easily when the job is done and gives a paiterly feel to the drawing before I even brgin to paint.
    Submitted by charleshetenyi | Rated: +2
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    The Beauty of Contrasts

    If you're looking for an article that can give you some basics in the use of contrasts to create impact in your paintings, this is a wonderful article. Learn how to use contrast to bring the best out in your work ...
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    Basic Principles for Learning How to Draw

    Starting is  always the  most difficult part. That's even  more true if you're commencing  to learn how to sketch - be it online or offline.  To get your artist career started  you've got to master two fields:  first, master the key techniques and second:  choose the right subjects for your practicing.  Learn How to Draft  Using These Methods  There're  some of  ...
    Submitted by Ruediger | Rated: +1
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    From drawing to illustration

    From drawing to illustration
    F*** IT JUST ERASED IT ALLL ALLL OF IT!!!!! THAT'S 5 hours of writing a tutorial down the drain....never again. Let this be a lesson to ArtBistro...make sure this editor saves a cookie of all that work or something...I submitted 5 hours of work on this tutorial, and I went to submit it, and it asks me to login, so I ...
    Submitted by taelmx | Rated: +2
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    Easy Conversion Guide to iPod, Apple TV and iPhone Video Formats

    -- Via the integrated video converter of Socusoft Web Video Player As the limited content available on the iTunes Store, the owners of iPod, Apple TV and iPhone also search videos from other sources. What the owners of these portable devices may be faced with is the various video formats and relevant maximum compatibility to iPod, Apple TV and iPhone. Right ...
    Submitted by jannya1 | Rated: +1
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    3R

    3R
    REDUCE,  REUSE,  RECYCLE When we don't recycle, we're wasting precious resources. But when we do, it's amazing what they can be made into. INTRODUCTION Is there something in your rubbish bin that isn't really rubbish? Chances are, yes. If you look carefully, most of what you put in the rubbish bin can be reused or recycled into new products. In fact, ...
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    I need a sponsor

    I need a sponsor
    Hello Everybody. I am an artist from Denmark and I have received an invitation from the Internal Committee of the Internationlae Biennial of Contemporary Art, for participate in the Seventh edition of the exhibition which will take place from the the 5.th  to the 13.th of December 2009 at the Florence Biennale What I need are someone who wants to help ...
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    My latest Oil Painting

     I have just uploaded my latest and best Oil Painting of an ancient bridge section which spanned the Avon River to Warwick Castle.. Utmay have been built ny the Romans but more likely was built 899 years ago. Tge Castle is a magnificant toirist site, in wonderful condition with furniture, wax figures, armour, weapons, a dungeon, great hall, Artwork and the ...
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    Tips for Keeping a "Green" Studio!

    Tips for Keeping a "Green" Studio!
    Draw on it! There are many ways to stay green in the art studio. One of the best ways is by finding a use for the scraps and leftovers that might otherwise be thrown out. This month we showed you how to cut a simple mat, but before you throw out that piece you cut out of the middle, here are ...
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    Poetry

    In That State Of Mind The dimness sheds over my eyes, I'm not in the right state of mind. I think I might be blind, because I feel like the luminosity of night has painted me. I feel careless, colorless, odorless and tasteless.  The rain holds my grievances, midnight holds my miseries, and the moon holds my hesitance, the ocean holds ...
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    Highschool Mcas

    Highschool Mcast Brings Pressure Attention highschool student I support everyone going for the MCAS  this year I also support  teachers going for thier MTELS. The score has recently increased that means if you took the test last year and didn't score a 240 you won't pass. The score has recently been raised to 240 bringing more pressure on highschool students to graduate.  I ...
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    Handmade Jewelry

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    For the Children

    <b>100 % of artist profits from the sale of this print will go to "The Society Against Child Abuse"</b> <a href="http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o259/murphyelliott/?action=view&amp;current=pumpkinheadhalf.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o259/murphyelliott/pumpkinheadhalf.jpg" border="0" alt="Little Pumpkin by Murphy Elliott"/></a> <b>This link will take you to the artwork</b> <b>http://fineartamerica.com/featured/little-pumpkin-murphy-elliott.html</b> <b><i>or if you just want to show moral support then join me on my facebook site.</i></b> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Murphy-Elliott/561587424" title="Murphy Elliott's Facebook profile" target="_TOP"><img ...
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    Making Flash Media

    <embed ="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIv0mixaAfA"></embed> This tutorial will give you a precise step by step guide on how to put flash into your website and getting started with an awesome site. Once you learn how from this tutorial, do not be afraid to try a new one by yourself implementing your own flavor and ideas.
    Submitted by omega | Rated: -2
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    Html, Xtml, PHP (next stage)

    I am going to make it interactive so you can see whats going on. First off, I started web developing and graphic design for websites when the 386 computers were still around, and the internet was just getting started. (What a nightmare it was using the Hamline University computers with their original version of adobe photoshops)   The HTML itself was still ...
    Submitted by omega | Rated: +1

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