Art Composition
To make your art truly appealing to your audience it is vital for you to know how to compose your art works in the most efficient and balanced way. This short beginners tutorial takes the first few steps into the world of art composition.
Read the art composition tutorial.Digital Drawing
This short tutorial will guide you safely into the world of digital artistry. I will deal with both the hardware and software side of the matter, but also deal you a handful of tips and tricks to get you going.
Going digital? Read on!The Golden Ratio
If you are serious about your art there is no way around the ancient rule of the golden ratio. Learn the basics of this amazing rule and learn how to use it in your art.
Read about the golden ratio.Perspective Drawing
Perspective drawing might seem a bit complicated for a beginner artist, but you can learn the basics quite fast. So if you want to add the power of perspective to your art this short tutorial will teach you the basics.
Read the perspective drawing tutorial.The "Blinded" Artist
Learn how to eliminate proportional blindness quickly in this tutorial and speed up your working process. This tutorial contains a handful of different ways to get rid of proportional tolerance fast. Use it for both traditional and digital artworks.
Eliminate proportional blindness.The "Square" Artist
Learn how simple squares and rectangles can aid you in your artistic efforts. Squares can be used for more than just a tool for finding a good balanced composition as this tutorial explains.
Get squared!Drawing is Seeing
The title of this tutorial might seem obvious, nevertheless it is vital for you to train your eyes to see and discover the vast amount of details making out a human face, or any other object your wish to draw or paint.
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Color Theory
In this short tutorial I will introduce you to the basics of color theory, and show you how to create any color you wish by mixing the three basic colors. Within the article you'll also find links to even more information on color theory plus a link to a colorwheel you can download, print and use yourself.
Color Theory.Painting With Acrylics
Getting started painting with acrylics is pretty straight forward. But before you get going this art tutorial has some tips and guidelines getting you off to a good start. It covers the paint, brushes, what to paint on and much more.
Get started with acrylics painting.Scanning Art
If you need to scan art larger than your flatbed scanner can handle, this art tutorial has a short guide on how to scan traditional artworks even if they're too large to fit in your scanner all at once. This tutorial is aimed at artworks made on paper only.
Learn how to scan.Comic Book Coloring in Photoshop
Armed with a little patience and this basic comic book coloring tutorial, you can get off to a quick start coloring your comic book lineart in Photoshop. We will focus on getting the job done using Photoshop in this tutorial, but it can easily be applied to any other sufficiently advanced graphics application.
Read the comic book coloring tutorial.How to Photograph Traditional Art
In this art tutorial I'll show you how to take great photographs of traditional art works, even with the limited setup of a point-and-click camera (better will do also). All you need is a camera, some art to take photographs of plus a well lit room, and you're set to go for some art photography.
Learn how to photograph traditional art.The Art of Story Writing
What makes a great story? Besides being well written and interesting a great story leans against a variety of elements and techniques to capture an audience. And writing stories is truly an art just like painting and sculpting. This basic tutorial will introduce you to the most important parts of writing a story.
Learn the basics of story writing.Making Custom Photoshop Brushes
Tired of those brushes that comes with Photoshop? Want to make your own? Fear not! Making custom brushes in Photoshop is quite easy and the possibilities are pretty much endless. This beginners tutorial will teach you the basics of making whatever brush your wish. Read this tutorial and
learn to make your own photoshop brushes.
