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How To: Draw a skull easily
In this video, we learn how to draw a skull. First, start out with an incomplete circle with flame like marks on the bottom. Then, draw a face around it with a pointed nose and long drawn out teeth. After this, continue to make the outline of the face and create the jaw line underneath the top teeth with teeth coming from the bottom. After this, add cracks to the skull and shade it to make it look more like bone. Then, make flames coming out of the skull in the back for a more creative appear...
How To: Draw realistic hair
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw realistic hair. Start out with a rough outline and look where the hair is clustered together. Draw the clustered area first. Then, cross hatch over the entire surface of the area and blend in. Add hair to the forehead area, then use a darker pencil to form the shape of the hair. After you do the clusters, start to draw the hair that is separated from the rest. Keep looking at the picture you are drawing, then use an eraser to change the drawing to match ...
How To: Draw people in motion
In this video, we learn how to draw people in motion. Start off by drawing a shoulder and an arm. After this, draw the body, then continue down to draw the legs. Next, draw the head on the body and draw the second body dancing with the first one. Draw the clothes on then add details to make it look more realistic. Once you add lines in around the people, it gives the illusion of them moving their feet. Draw in the dance floor, then finished with additional lines around the figured. When done,...
How To: Draw Ryo Bakura YGO style
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Ryo Bakura Yu Gi Oh style. Start off by drawing the head, making a pointy nose on the front of the face. Next, draw in the eyes making eyebrows in and pupils. Also draw in the shapes on the head, then start to draw in the hair. Make two sides of the hair pointy spikes on both sides. Start to draw the neck and shoulders going down to the very bottom of the paper. Place a collared shirt, then start to add in shading on the picture. Draw in lines, then add ...
How To: Draw a cartoon girl quickly
In this video, we learn how to draw a cartoon girl quickly. Start off by drawing the face and adding in the eyes, lips, and hair. Then, draw the body and arms, giving her large breasts. Trace the outline to the face, giving her eyebrows and the length of hair you desire. Give her a tube top shirt using shading in it to show her body shape. Next, color in the color of her hair, skin, and shirt. When you are finished, you can add in more details of how you want the cartoon girl to look and enjo...
How To: Draw a cartoon cyborg
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a cartoon cyborg. Start off by drawing the outline of the body to be wide and fat. Make the hands look like claws and the toes large. The ears should be pointed out and the belly should be large and fat. Add in hairs, eyes, a nose, a mouth, a chin, and nipples to the appropriate areas. Add shading around different areas to give the cyborg a more chunky look. After this, start drawing the mechanical parts on the inside of the cartoon, making machinery par...
How To: Draw an anime ninja cat
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw an anime ninja cat. Start off by drawing a circle at the top of the page, followed by two cat eyes, one going into the left side of the face. Next, draw a cat ear on the side of the face on both sides, then remove the head line from one ear. Next, draw in a small circular body with a round bottom. Next to this, draw the arm and legs to the ninja cat. Make pants and shoes on the cat, as well as a belt. To finish this drawing, erase any lines that can be r...
How To: Draw a husky puppy
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a husky puppy. Start off by drawing the head, don't use a straight line at the top, make it look like it has hair. After this, continue and draw teeth and a tongue hanging out of the dog if you want it to look happy. Next, add ears to the top of the head and eyes to the face. Give the dog markings and pupils on the eyes. Then, add the nose on with a button shape at the top. Draw out the collar and chest of the dog, then add on the two front feet, the bel...
How To: Draw Ferb of Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Ferb of Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb. First, draw a thin rectangle, then two large eyes, one bigger than the other. Draw aw square nose with a tiny mouth that has a neutral expression. Draw three spikes on the hair, then small ears. After this, draw a collar on the shirt with tiny sleeves, then the belt will come up underneath the armpits. Clean up any lines that you have missed and keep practicing until you have this drawn to your liking. Be creati...
How To: Draw a hand
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a hand. First, start drawing on a blank canvas and start with the middle finger and knuckle. Shade in the knuckle area, and make the lines that are around the nail of the finger. Then, start drawing the other fingers out, adding lines to make it look more realistic. After this, shade the sides of the fingers to make the hand look like it's bent in some areas, then make sure you have fingernails drawn into the picture. After this, shade the entire hand an...
How To: Shade a demon with various pencil grades
You know how in kindergarten you loved nothing more on a hot summer afternoon than to sip your Juicy Juice while scribbling wildly onto your favorite coloring book? Well, this tutorial stems from the same idea. While outlines, as provided in coloring books and yourself later as an artist, are a great place to start a picture, they certainly don't count as a finished product.
How To: Draw a menacing jumping figure with Wayne Tully
To give you an indication of what you're getting yourself into, drawing a jumping figure is about as difficult as it is to get up from the couch after a long day of work and doing 100 jumping jacks and push-ups. It sure isn't fun and it sure isn't easy, but both will make you a stronger individual in the long run. While exercise of any sort helps you get fit, drawing figures in motion will help you greatly advance as an artist. That's because sketching out moving figures forces you to take in...
How To: Draw a bulky football player step by step
This art tutorial debunks the myth that male artists are sissies. Okay, maybe if you were a dude who just died over painting watercolor lillies then we would question your, uh, orientation, but when it comes to drawing beefcake football players, it's full on masculinity.
How To: Draw an outdoor multilevel complex levels space
The true test of good technical drawing is being able to handle multiple vanishing points and levels of ground at the same time. So rather than just creating a scene on the same uniform plane, you add additional height and width with complex levels.
How To: Draw a very curvy female superhero with a cape
Who says you can't be feminine and powerful at the same time? This female superhero, equipped with a skintight bodysuit that leaves little to the imagination, a cape, and belt, also posses a nice set of...muscles. Not the type of gal you want to mess with, she's uberfeminine yet clearly knows how to stand her ground.
How To: Draw a room with stairways using complex levels
Have you ever secretly pined away for a career in interior design, even though you're currently stuck in law school because, well, your parents forced you and gave you no other option? Because law school can be a bit rigid in terms of what you learn (pretty much it's just facts and figures and learning sound logic), it's important to indulge your creative side ever once in a while.
How To: Draw a boy or male teenager in the manga style
This clip offers lessons in how to draw boys in the Japanese manga style. Breaking down the hair, eyes, and mouth, it gives you a bunch of tips and tricks to make a very realistic face. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, and to get started drawing your own manga boys, watch this video guide.
How To: Draw male and female manga eyes
In this clip, Mark Rilley teaches how to draw male and female eyes in the Japanese manga style. Breaking down the anatomy, he distinguishes the gender differences between the two in order to give your drawings more masculine or feminine qualities. For more information, and to get started drawing your own Japanese comic-style eyes, watch this free video drawing lesson.
How To: Draw a scary vampire face
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw a vampire. Begin by using the paint bucket tool to fill the entire background in black. Then start drawing the vampire in transparent blue. Sketch the outlines of the face and draw curves for the guidelines of eyes, nose and mouth. Now erase half of the face and fill it in black. The other half of the face is filled with tints of blue and purple airbrush. Finish by adding the details with opaque shades of blue, purple and white pencil lines. T...
How To: Draw a cartoon bird
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw a cartoon bird. Using the gray pencil tool, draw an oval shape for the body of the bird. Then create the lines for the wing and tail. Now add the details with black outlines. Then use transparent colors to fill the body, tail and wing with different shades of color. Add details to the wing by drawing some lines. The beak should be short and sharp, and the eyes should be highlighted in white. Color the branch with the brown paint tool and the l...
How To: Draw a sports logo
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a sports logo. You will need: paper and a writing utensil to do this. Do a rough draft of the logo with a light pencil before beginning. When finished, draw a basic helmet shape with a Sharpie marker. Trace around the lines that you made and make sure to draw the face guard when you are finished with the helmet outline. Next, add on a grille to the mask and then add more detail to the helmet as it would look in real life. When you are finished, add color...
How To: Draw Obi-Wan from Star Wars
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw Obi-Wan from Star Wars. Begin by drawing a circle for the head and rectangular shape for the jaw. Then draw a line 1/3 way across the circle. Draw the eyes on the line and the nose just underneath the line. Now draw 2 lines from the ends of the eyes to the rectangular shape. Use those lines as a guide to draw the length of the mouth. Then add the ears, eyebrows and beard. Now lightly draw the hair. Finish by coloring and shading the image. Thi...
How To: Draw small faces on paper
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw small faces on paper. This is best for drawing on comic books, because the faces are smaller than on regular drawings. First, give yourself a scale size to see how large you want the faces on the paper to be. If you are new at drawing, use the square method to learn how to measure the face and learn how to draw the face so the body is scaled to the size of the head. Start out by drawing the head and adding in shading details. You will start with the guid...
How To: Make a realistic pencil sketch of a human skull
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw a skull. Begin by selecting a skull image to draw from. Then draw a circle and sketch a few lines to position the eye sockets, nose and mouth cavities. Now erase the guidelines and re-sketch the drawing. Then start toning the eye sockets and nose cavity by shading. Now tone the other parts of the skull. Finish by shading the background. This video will benefit those viewers who are interested in drawing and art, and would like to learn how to ...
How To: Draw a sci fi warrior's helmet with Tully
Let's face it: Without armor, we'd all be very squishy. While armor isn't necessary on the every day when we're going to school or hitting up the post office (at least we HOPE armor isn't necessary where you live), it certainly is and has been in battle.
How To: Draw complex figures using stick figures as a base
You know how people who proclaim they can't draw always muddle through drawing assignments by piecing together a couple of stick figures? Well, that's because stick figures are the absolute easiest figures to draw.
How To: Draw big pouty lips
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw lips. Begin by drawing a horizontal line for the mouth and draw a Mickey Mouse shape in between the line. Then sketch the upper lip with the 2 smaller circles on top and draw the lower lip with the large circle as guidelines. Now users may draw the rest of the face. Then darken and define the upper and lower lips. Now lightly sketch some lines on the lips to show depth. Then darken and shade the lips. This video will benefit those viewers who ...
How To: Draw a rose garden with Michael Weisner
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw a rose garden. Begin by marking the locations of the objects. Then draw the rose bushes around the garden pathway. Draw the lines with some cross hatching. This will give the bushes some form and feel. Add some circular boxes in the bushes to represent the roses. On the pathway, add some grass on the edges and stones on the path. In the center, draw a center piece and draw an arch over it. Finish by adding details to the roses. This video will...
How To: Draw a fun bunny doodle
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a fun bunny doodle. To begin, draw an upside down triangle with two straight lines coming out of the top middle. Next, draw a half circle over the eyes, then draw two large bunny ears on top of the half circle. Then, connect the curls on the end of the ear to the bottom of the head. Now, do an additional line to make the inside of the ear. After this, draw another circle around the bottom of the face, then draw a line with two humps at the bottom of the ...
How To: Write in lowercase calligraphy letters
In this tutorial, we learn how to write in lowercase calligraphy letters. To begin, you will write in lower case letters just use a more find edge then you do when writing normally. The letters will all have a twist to the edge of them to make them look more fancy than normal. There are no straight lines, all the lines have a slight curve or curl at the end of them. Practice doing each letter on a piece of paper with a calligraphy pen or marker. The letters will look very similar to the usual...
How To: Design and draw a female comic character
Fancy comic books, but don't have the skills to make them yourself? Comic book artists do nothing but draw all day, so it's no wonder they're good at it. But you may need a little more help, and this five-part series will help you along your journey into developing comic characters, specifically the female variety. Photoshop is used in the videos, but you don't need a fancy drawing application to get started. Just pull out the old paper and pencil and follow along. There's a ton of great info...
How To: Draw a black and white male zombie in MS Paint
Though it's not typical for idrawgirls to focus on the male gender, don't count this tutorial out if you're looking for good instructions on how to draw a zombie. This male zombie is being drawn in MS Paint, and you can watch the drawing take place while listening to the commentary on what's being done and what needs to be done to create the living dead. But don't fret, there is a wonderfully drawn woman right next to the horrific zombie, so it's not that far of a departure for drawgirls.
How To: Draw a modern complex levels garden
Feng shui out your drawing skills by doing something a little different this time: rather than focus on architectural buildings and stairways, why not sketch out a soothing garden to ease your tired soul?
How To: Draw matching cartoon eyes and eyebrows
Drawing eyes is often the most difficult part of nailing down a comic book or manga character, but also the most vital part. Eyes really animate a face, so it's important to master all types of eyes if you wish to become a good artist. This tutorial will teach you how you can contain the eyes and eyebrows in the same plane, or basic shape, to make sure they align evenly. When this sort of method isn't used, often people will draw eyebrows that are disconnected from the rest of the eye.
How To: Draw Marvel comic books character Ms. Marvel
As with most female comic book heroines, Ms. Marvel, created by artist Gene Colan in the 1960s, is a bodacious babe with killer curves and an even more killer abilities of superhuman strength, stamina, flight, and precognition.
How To: Organize comic book panels
When you are organizing the panels of your comic, you should keep in mind the way you want eyes to follow it. With multiple panels on a page, your spacing between them will determine where the eyes will go. If you want the reader to read up and down and from left to right, then you should create columns, by leaving more space in the middle.
How To: Draw a deer from a triangle
This video tutorial is in the Fine Art category which will show you how to draw a deer from a triangle. First you draw an inverted triangle which will make up the face of the deer. Then you draw two small curves starting at the two top corners of the triangle to make the horns of the deer. You can also draw more short curves or straight lines starting from these curves to make up the complete horns. Then you draw the ears starting just below the horns. Draw the eyes and color in the ears and ...
How To: Draw martial artist Bruce Lee (face, body and shading)
When you think of martial arts, only one name comes to mind, and no… we're not talking about Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris. We're talking about Bruce Lee, the epitome of martial arts. Not only was he the best martial artist known to man, he was also an accomplished actor, instructor, director, producer, screenwriter, and philosopher. But there was one thing he wasn't. An artist. Okay, he was a "martial artist", but he wasn't a visual artist, master of the pencil, kind of the drawing world… bu...
How To: Create a tessellation
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create a tessellation. The materials required for this project are: index cards, scissors, pencil, large paper and coloring utensils. Begin by preparing a shape. Cut the index paper to a desired shape. Then place it on the right side of the large paper and tape it. Now trace the shape onto the large paper and continue transferring the shape until the page is filled. The shapes should fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. This video will benefit those ...
How To: Sketch a human skull
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw a human skull. Begin by drawing a circle shape and draw a center line to mark the symmetry. About half way through the circle, create an indent for the temple and arch out for the cheekbones. Now connect the bottom of the cheekbones to form the front teeth. Then draw a spear head shape at about 1/3 of the head for the nostrils. Now draw the eye cavities from the center mark of the circle. This video will benefit those viewers who are intereste...