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Drawing from Imagination

Drawing from imagination. We all love to draw and have images in our head that we want to put on paper - but will drawing from imagination really create the vision we see in our mind's eye?

Artist Trading Cards and Business Cards

Artist trading cards are a great way to share your work around. To be successful as an artist, you need to be seen, and artist's trading cards are an inexpensive way to do this. They also make great business cards.

Anime and Manga Drawing Tip - Learn about Japanese Art

Many conventions in Japanese animation and comics come from Japanese legends, stories and histories. Often, complete episodes of Japanese history are retold, or sometimes just alluded to with a subtle reference.

Experimenting With Materials

Do your colored pencil drawings look a bit dull or patchy? Maybe you are using the wrong paper. Extend your knowledge of the colored pencil medium by trying out different papers and pencils.

Clean, Crisp Manga Drawing

Manga drawing tip find out how to lose the smudges and dirty colors in your Manga drawing and get a cleaner look.

Improve Your Manga Character Drawing

Manga drawing tip - learn to draw manga action poses by using reference sources to make your drawings accurate

Improve Your Manga Character Drawing

Manga drawing tip - improve your drawing by using a real person as a reference and drawing from many angles.

Achieving a Good Likeness

Drawing a likeness - making your portrait drawing look like face of the person you are trying to draw - is the whole point of portraiture, right? Here are some tips to help you get your portrait to look more like the sitter.

Drawing Tip: Using Contrast to Pop or Not

Contrast can be a friend or a foe when you are drawing in any medium. Here's a quick drawing tip to help you use it to your advantage

Grid Drawing with Computer Graphics

If you need to copy a digital photograph, or can scan a photograph into your computer, why not try using your computer graphics software program to make gridding your drawing a bit easier?

Enlarging Details and Scaling Up Pictures

Sometimes you don't want to spoil your picture by drawing lines on it, and sometimes the image is too small - you need more detail, or you want your drawing to be bigger. This grid drawing tip is just what you need.

Stop Gridlines Spoiling Your Drawing

One major problem with grid drawing - those pesky lines that are hard to erase, especially once you start shading. Here's a tip on avoiding the problem when using a grid to copy a drawing or photograph

Beginner's Calligraphy - Pen Maintenance

For good results in calligraphy, its essential to have clean pens. Clean your pen after use to prevent dried ink clogging the nib.

Beginner's Calligraphy - Letter Formation Tip

Calligraphy Tip - old writing habits will sabotage your calligraphy. Find out the 'attitude ajustment' that will help you make the change from scribbler to calligrapher.

Blending Colored Pencil

Finding colored pencils tricky to blend? Read these tips on different methods of blending and layering colored pencil.

Improving Color Intensity

Broad areas of color can look surprisingly flat and dull in colored pencil drawing. Here's a tip on adding vibrancy to your colored pencil drawings by tricking the viewer's eye.

Removing Wax Bloom

A colored pencil drawing tip - find out what to do about wax bloom. Wax bloom is a white haze that appears across heavily worked colored pencil drawings as a layer of the wax medium forms on the surface.