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How To: Draw limbs

You first want to start with doing the outlines of the arm. Basic shapes like tubes are given structure with cross sections. This is to know if your knee is bending or is it straight. To do a gesture properly is to use landmarks. You start from the toes positioning and work your way up from here. Your feet, knee, and torso are your three landmarks. Erasing sharp edges helps to give the effect of a more soft drawing and the limbs seem more realistic. Today we learned that drawing is more about...

How To: Draw a cute little dog

In this art video the instructor shows how to draw a dog. He starts by drawing some basic figures of circle and square for the head and face of the dog. Next he draws a cylinder for the body of it. He goes on and shows how to add the legs and tail to it. Now he finally shows how to do the rest of the editing like shading and dots to give it a look of a real dog. This is a very good introductory video which shows the step by step process of how to draw a cute little dog using basic figures and...

How To: Draw and paint a female gypsy dancer

Impress others with your artistic skills by learning to paint a gypsy dancer on the computer. Construct a rough sketch line drawing of a girl dancing. Use a soft brush to airbrush some colors in. Use as few colors as possible. Don't worry about the value yet. This will be a basic map of what colors you want to use. Start adding darker colors in. Use a highlighter to add lighter colors. Use the soft edge brush to blend and a hard edge brush to define forms. Experiment to your liking. With this...

How To: Draw Luke Skywalker from "Star Wars"

Bring the magic of the original "Star Wars" movie back to lift, right in your own home. Learn how to draw Luke Skywalker from Star Wars - Episodes IV through VI. Luke Skywalker is the epitome of the Jedi force, so relive that spirit in your own cartoon version of the Jedi master. Get the full, step-by-step instructions at DragoArt.

How To: Draw Princess Leia from "Star Wars"

If you're into the "Star Wars" movies (the old ones, not the new ones), then this drawing tutorial might peak your interest. It's easy to do and anyone can draw it. You don't need to be a professional cartoonist to get this Princess Leia drawing done. Drawing her amongst the stars. See the full, step-by-step instructions at DragoArt.

How To: Draw the Death Star from "Star Wars"

Calling all "Star Wars" fans and artists: this quick video will show you the basics of drawing the infamous Death Star from Star Wars. It's just like draw a planet, except more detailed and intricate, but anybody should be able to draw this cartoon version of the Death Star. It doesn't take a professional cartoonist to get it done. See the full step-by-step instructions at DragoArt.

How To: Cartoonize your videos with Cartoonr

Learn how to turn your videos into "A Scanner Darkly" style animations with this simple, quick and effective tool. Go to New Blue FX. Select your download platform and download the plug-in. Open your relevant software (this video example uses Sony Vegas) and note that the New Blue FX have been added. Open a video and pick an effect you like. If necessary, adjust the effects, until you are satisfied. Preview your video. If satisfied, render it and save. Follow these simple steps to turn your v...

How To: Draw a classical portrait

Draw23 presents a video demonstrating how to draw a face. The video uses no instructions or advice, it just shows plainly, in fast-motion, how to draw a realistic portrait. First, an outline of the face is made, including lines indicating where the eyes, nose, and mouth will be placed. The next step is drawing the features with minimal shading. Next, heavy shading is added, and finally, some last-minute details to perfect the drawing. By watching this video, you can see the proper technique u...

How To: Draw a cartoon chair

This video teaches you how to draw a cartoon chair. In the video the artist shows great detail and teaches you how to draw the chair line for line. It is a very helpful video for anyone who wants to learn the basics of drawing simple objects. It is a good starting point for anyone interested in art. I would recommend this tutorial to any inspiring artist or anyone who would like to pick up the art of drawing as a hobby. The instructor is very detailed and organized. This video is very simple ...

How To: Draw a furry

Jess tries to teach us how to draw a furry. A furry is a type of cute animal. She starts off with a circle like figure and works from there. It is rather hard to follow her strokes as she draws, but it gets easier with practice. Try copying exactly what Jess does, which is to do quick, short strokes with the pencil rather than having a long continuous stroke. Also, the lines she made in the beginning of the video act as a guide as to where they eyes, nose, and mouth will be.

How To: Draw a flamingo bird

This video is about how to draw a flamingo bird in a very easy way. Only paper and a writing utensil are required (pencil and marker). You have to follow some simple steps that are: (1)Draw head and neck of flamingo bird. (2)Draw its body. (3)Draw its wing.(4)Draw tail feathers.(5)Draw its legs. You can also darken the legs with the help of a marker. Your flamingo bird is ready with these simple steps only.

How To: Draw an agave plant

Michael Wiesner, a graphic designer, shows you how to draw an agave plant using paper and a writing utensil. He starts by showing you a pencil outline of the drawing and then shows you how to fill it in with a Sharpie ink pen. Each step is detailed on the best way that you would fill in the plant so that it comes out to it's best. If you follow this video through you can create a great looking agave plant on paper.

How To: Draw cartoon pirates

Webcartoonist shows us how to draw cartoon pirates. Begin with crown of the hat (based on Long John Silver from "Treasure Island"). Start with half-moon shape. The pirate carried a parrot on his shoulder. Begin the parrot's comb, eyes, & head about level with the brim of the pirate's hat. Directly under brim of hat, near center, draw pirate's eyes & nose. Beginning from side opposite the parrot, fill in pirate's facial features. Draw pirate's coat. Add pirate's sleeve, with cuffs & ornamentat...

How To: Draw an anime or manga female in motion

This video goes back to basics, using regular pencil, pen and colored pencils to create a manga female figure. He begins by drawing basic lines and shapes of the torso with pencil, then adding legs, arms and marking the joints. He adds detail to the body and fills in the shapes of the muscles. He then adds the head shape and fills in the facial details and hair before adding detail to the hands and fingers. He continues with the clothing, before going over all the lines with a black ink pen. ...

How To: Draw a realistic eye

Before drawing a realistic eye, you want to start by sketching just a general eye shape. It is important to know the anatomy of an eye. Each eye has a pupil, an iris, an eyelid, a tear duct, eye lashes, and most people have eyebrows. Begin by shading in areas where it is appropriate. This will involve some erasing and rubbing. Pay attention to where the light is focused in your drawing and how it reflects in your glossy eye. It is best to save eyelashes for last. To draw eyelashes, simply rub...

How To: Draw a western cowboy boot

This video demonstrates very clearly and hence you can easily learn the method quickly. The materials needed for making rose bouquet are a square paper and glue. The square paper should be pink in color. Now fold a triangle and then fold in 2 outer edges. Create a petal fold and paste the two sides together. Now you need to repeat this process six times so that you will get six petals. Now paste the six petals and make a bouquet.

How To: Draw a quick demonic head

If you need to draw a demon monster in a hurry then watch this video to see how you can sketch one up in a flash. The great thing about sketching is that you can just sort of etch out the form, refining it until you have the scary demon you are looking for.

How To: Draw a lotus blossom

This video is about drawing a lotus blossom. The lotus blossom is already drawn in pencil to save time. The same steps will be followed only inking it this time. Using a fat pen, draw the root stem. Add more deeleebobs at the bottom. Draw the outer petals. Draw layers of blossoms. Draw second layer of flower. Add more outside blossom leaves. Draw the center. Draw a buttercup and more stems inside. Add more details to the bottom and petals.

How To: Draw a manga girl and guy

Drawing a human being doesn't have to be difficult. With a little practice, it can be as easy as pie. You'll need a sketch pen, pencil and a paper. Draw the outline of a boy and a girl. Then you can draw the eyes, nose, lips and the body structure respectively. Then give the shades on the outline to make it look more graceful.

How To: Draw an female anime face in 3/4

Would you like to learn how to draw amazing anime cartoons? This excellent and entertaining video demonstrates step by step how to draw a flawless female anime face in 3/4 view. It discusses the challenges of 3/4 views, how to practice difficult facial drawing techniques, and offers helpful tips on how to produce anime drawings that really stand out. It provides helpful tips on proper pencil and lead choice to quickly and easily get fine, clean and perfect lines that are a must for modern ani...

How To: Color in hair, manga style

Using a popular movie character as a basis, and drawing in manga style, our video host shows us visually how to properly color in whatever hair you may be attempting to draw. Using first the primary color along each strand, we are then show that a lighter or darker version of the primary color should be utilized, right alongside the initial color. And then, to complete each strand and give the hair a varied and popping appearance, you should always outline each strand in a nice simple black. ...

How To: Draw a cup of water with a straw inside

This video is about how to draw a cup of water with a straw inside. For this you have to remember only a very few easy steps:(1) Draw the sides of the cup.(2) Draw an oval for the bottom.(3) Add an oval for the top and draw some water. (4)Then draw a straw. Your cup of water with a straw inside is ready in just a very few simple steps.

How To: Write the letter N in calligraphy copperplate

This video tutorial with Hamid Reza Ebrahimi, shows you how to write the letter N in calligraphy copperplate. The video illustrates step-by-step how to write this letter in the most accurate way possible. To begin, you draw a thin slanted downward stroke with a moderately curled tail. Then you create a stoke tangent to the first stroke with a tapered thickness in the middle. To complete the capital N you draw a tangent line upward that is thin and has a large looping tail. For the small case ...

How To: Draw Susan Storm from the Fantastic 4

Did you enjoy Fantastic 4? Was your favorite character Susan Storm? Well, this video is a comprehensive step by step guide to how to draw Susan Storm from Fantastic 4. The video gives very clear and simple instructions. There are very few requirements other than that the viewer should have a pencil and paper. The video gives great advice on how to draw female characters in general. By the end of the video, viewers should have a good idea on how to draw not just Susan Storm, but most female ch...

How To: Draw a Victorian house

Michael Weisner demonstrates his method of drawing a Victorian house. He uses a pencil or Sharpie marker, paper, and a T-square to get perfectly straight lines. First he draws the base of the house, and then marks the roof lines. He draws double lines to create the look of crown moldings. He details the first floor first with different widths of markers to show the architectural details. He then adds details to the roofs and crown moldings, and adds a tower with more details. This demonstrati...

How To: Write the letter Z in calligraphy copperplate

Hamid Reza Ebrahimi demonstrates how the Z and z are written in copperplate. For this video, Hamid used a Brause & Co. No. 86 Nib Persian black calligraphy ink. Also, he used a Brause marbled penholder along with a Persian leather pasteboard and Steinbeck pasteboard. Hamid writes the letter Z at 6 centimeters tall and the small z at 2 centimeters. The video shows how the Z is written, starting off with a loop from the top line on a ruled paper and moves on a slant to the left down to the bott...

How To: Draw Zombie

In this video, the artist shows us how to draw a zombie properly. He is using a computer program to generate a very detailed zombie. He starts off by drawing a vague structure of the character with a very light shading. He draws a very awkward posture to portray the zombie more realistically, along with a torn shirt and jeans. He uses a thicker line to draw the outline, while using a thinner line to draw the little details on the skin.

How To: Draw Emma Frost

Emma Frost, a famous X-Men character, sometimes a villain sometimes a hero, can be a daunting task to draw, but with this video, we're given a step by step process, and a new approach. Using a computer program, our host begins at the face, and shows us how to use simple shapes and then expands to very simple lines for creating the body and arms. Teaching us both shading, and general anatomy and line lengths, this video is not just useful for teaching us to draw Emma Frost, X-Man, but is usefu...

How To: Draw manga on the computer

This is a very interesting instructional video on how to draw a woman on the computer. First, you must draw the head, neck and shoulders. You can draw help lines. Now you should draw the eyes. Then you should draw nose and mouth. Draw the iris. Now you can take away the help lines. Now draw the eye brows and eyelids. You can pick another color and draw the hair. Erase the blue lines in the hair. Now you can pick another color and draw the sweater. Give black color to sweater. You can paint th...

How To: Draw a dog by memorizing a funny tale

Dogs are one of the simplest animal to draw. In the first step draw a small stick i.e. simple line with two arms below and a small round on the top. In the second step draw a round circle outside this one. In the third step draw semi-circle on top of the circle adjacent to the outer circle. In the fourth step draw two small circle for the eyes inside the semi-circle and make a small dot inside the small circle. In the final step draw the ears on both sides equally in the way such that it shou...

How To: Draw a basketball shoe

Michael Weisner, 2D illustrator and animator will take you through the easy process of drawing a basketball shoe. All you will need is some paper, a pencil, and a marker. Follow along with Michael in this easy to make drawing that will increase your artistic abilities. In a matter of minutes you will be left with your own creation of a basketball shoe that you can later incorporate into other drawings. You will gain artistic knowledge and learn from a professional animator.

How To: Draw Kenpachi Zaraki

The artist demonstrates how to manga character Kenpachi Zaraki. Text appears on screen with each step in the drawing. It stars with a circle, then lines to indicate the center of the face and the placement of eyes. More lines indicate the neck and muscles, then an outline of the hair is added. Lines show the clothes and wrinkles in the clothes. Facial features and details are drawn in as the guide lines are erased. Following these instructions, you can draw the face of Kenpachi Zaraki.

How To: Draw a surfboard with cool designs

Michael Weisner, professional illustrator and animator, guides you step by step through designing a surfboard. Michael shows us in just a few steps how to draw the basic shape of a surfboard, and then how to add a radical surf-themed design to our creation. Using his example in this video, even the least artistic of us can get a feel for how to design the art for a surfboard. His example includes a moon, a Tiki man and flames. Gnarly!

How To: Draw a face to get girls

This video shows the procedure to draw a face. The video shows various stages to draw a face. These include drawing an egg on the paper, dividing the egg into various parts by horizontal lines, drawing the nose and lips, drawing the eyes and ears. The video cleverly deals with issues relating to the evidence of not being a professional. The video shows the various choices that can be made by the artist in drawing the face like the pencils to use.

How To: Draw a dragon's head

Get out your pencil, because it's time to learn how to draw a detailed dragon's head! Rojm takes you through each simple step to drawing a dragon's head, including when to draw lightly so you can erase, how to draw layers of teeth, how to draw and shade horns, how to draw the nose and tongue, and when to use color. If you follow the simple steps in this video, you're sure to have a great and detailed dragon's head in no time.