How to Draw Seascape Drawings
A seascape is a landscape drawing that features the ocean and elements along the shore of the ocean. Seascapes have been the subject of drawings and paintings for generations of artists. Seascapes...
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How to Draw a Stuck out Tongue
One of the facial expressions an artist may need to draw is a tongue extending from a mouth. This is not a difficult image to create. The tongue can be drawn using a basic shape. The key to drawing the...
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How to Draw a Forest
You can draw a lush forest scene with trees, foliage, leaves and plants in just a few steps. Refer to a photo, or enjoy the outdoors and draw from real life by setting up an easel near the edge of a...
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Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques for Water Drops
It's fun to sketch and draw with regular drawing pencils, but drawing with colored pencils adds a new element to the experience. There are a few blending techniques you can use to create a whole...
View ArticleHow to Draw a Wave Step-by-Step
Learn how to draw waves, to add detail to an ocean scene drawing. You can do this by combining a few simple shapes. Before you begin drawing, look at some images of real waves and use these to inspire...
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How to Draw Mountains, Trees and Rivers
It's helpful to an artist, when attempting to draw and paint landscapes, to be able to create constituent parts individually. Drawing a mountain, tree or river involves varying degrees of difficulty....
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How to Draw Polka Dots
It's not rocket science to draw polka dots if all you want is a piece of paper with some hand-drawn circles on it. But if you need to draw neat, professional-looking, regularly spaced polka dots with...
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How to Convert a Photo to a Line Drawing in Fireworks
Learning how to convert a photo to a line drawing in Fireworks is not as difficult as it may sound. With a few simple clicks, you can transform any photograph into a sketched piece of art. When...
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How to Draw Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ is one of the most recognized figures in not only art, but in the world. Every artist has their own interpretation of how to draw Jesus, but many start at the same place - learning to draw...
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How to Use Charcoal & Graphite Sticks
Artists use many different tools to draw pictures. Chalk, pencil, crayon, pen, charcoal and graphite are some of the materials used to draw simple to complex pictures. If you use each tool to draw the...
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How to Draw Indian Flags
Flags are used on many things to indicate a language, nationality, country, state or place of manufacture. The Indian national flag is a horizontal rectangular tricolor design with stripe colors of...
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How to Draw a WWE Superstar
Drawing your favorite World Wrestling Entertainment superstar is a wonderful way to display your passion for the phenomenon. Select an image of the WWE star you want to draw and set it up nearby as...
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How to Make a Mandela
A mandala is a form of Eastern art that is based on filling a circle with patterns or pictures. Some Eastern religions use mandalas for spiritual meditation or discipline. Many mandalas are geometric...
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How to Draw Pictures Out of Letters
It may take a little imagination, but you can make all kinds of pictures out of alphabet letters. Draw cartoon characters or animals or birds. First, start with the letter itself, whether lowercase or...
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How to Draw the Back of a Shoe
Although the back of a shoe seems like a pretty simple thing to draw, the truth is that certain types of lines, shading, and other detail can make a marked difference by lending depth and perspective....
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How to Draw Old English Style Letters
Old English calligraphy, also known as "blackletter," is used in making decorative signs, logos, bumper stickers, and even t-shirts. It is a common style used in official documents like diplomas and...
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How to Draw a Cattle Brand
Cattle brands are an iconic part of America's western heritage — a signature of the Wild West. Imagine a rugged cowboy branding his livestock to stave off cattle rustlers and prove which cattle are his...
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How to Draw a Jungle Scene With Animals & Plants
There are several ways to approach drawing a jungle scene. You can create a realistic drawing, or one that is stylized to depict a less realistic combination of plants and animals. It would be unlikely...
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How to Fold ANSI Drawings
Rolled, large-format architectural drawings can be unwieldy to carry. Instead, many architects and engineers fold the drawing sheets, making them easier to carry, as well as review, in confined spaces....
View ArticleHow to Make Illuminati Words
The Illuminati are a secret organization whose power and reach are often romanticized and debated. The Illuminati are an intellectual organization, and it came back into popular attention as a result...
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How to Draw a Scar on a Drawing
Scars, cuts and wounds are easy to draw since they are little more than a line or short series of lines. The image may be a little more complicated if it depicts a recent scar, however; this means it...
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How to Make Lizard Tessellations
Graphic artist Maurits Cornelis "M.C." Escher, inspired by the patterns and designs in Islamic art, designed and popularized many tiled, infinitely repeating patterns, called tessellations. Some of the...
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How to Draw a Room Plan on a Computer
When designing a home or simply making a plan for remodeling, floor plans are a useful tool. When you are first dreaming up ideas for your new room or are looking for ways to rearrange a room you...
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How to Draw a Star Freehand
Drawings of stars may be completed with meticulous detail. Artists sometimes measure every angle of the star when drawing with the use of devices like the protractor and ruler. Freehand drawings of...
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How to Make Your Own Female Sonic Character
Sonic the Hedgehog --- the mascot of Sega --- is a popular character who was invented by Yuji Naka in 1991. Since then he has starred in several video games, animated series, comic books and animated...
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How to Draw for Beginners
Drawing is a form of artistic expression that even beginning artists can engage in. There are many different types of drawing, such as cartooning, anime, doodling, landscapes, and the human form. You...
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How to Draw a Rose With Pastels
When artists want to illustrate nature, many turn to the medium of pastels to express themselves. Pastels are crayons or pencils made of pure pigment and bound with gum or wax, making them an ideal...
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How to Draw a Lion's Head
Drawing a lion's head is a creative way to express your artistic sensibilities. Set up a picture of a lion to inspire you as you draw. Explore different expressions your lion may make by tracing...
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How to Create a Gold Vector
While many think of gold as a color and naturally search for it in the color palette of their editing programs, software treats gold as a texture. To create this effect, open the swatches or gradient...
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How to Smooth Out Your Vector Artwork
The blurry or wavy lines that outline artworks make them look like amateur graphics. If you are a professional or want to become one, you certainly want your vector artwork to look neat and sharp. To...
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How to Draw a Glacier
A glacier is a large body of ice that originated on land and features a chiseled appearance because of its flow over time. Because of the climate surrounding this large piece of ice, the colors tend to...
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How to Paint a Hibiscus Flower
Hibiscus are beautiful flowering shrubs that grow in tropical and subtropical cliamtes around the world. With its pleasant green foliage and beautiful large colorful flowers, hibiscus has become a...
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How to Make a Rectangle Using a Compass
A compass is a tool that uses one stationary and one mobile point to draw symmetrical objects. A compass can help you draw a perfect circle and you can also use it to create one or multiple rectangles....
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How to Use Powdered Graphite for Portraits
Graphite powder offers a versatile alternative to graphite pencils. With graphite pencils, you need several grades of graphite, plus a very steady hand to create realistic looking portraits. With...
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How to Draw St. Michael
In Catholicism, St. Michael is known to be the patron saint of military personnel, police officers and mariners. It is believed that he led God's army into battle against Satan and appears as a chief...
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How to Use Charcoal Sticks
Charcoal sticks are natural vines made into charcoal for drawing. They produce a soft effect that is ideal for creating soft sketches. The lines made by charcoal sticks are easy to erase or blend into...
View ArticleHow to Draw a Conch Shell
To draw a conch shell, you must recognize four features of the shell: its mouth, coils, thickness and overall size. Not paying attention to these features could result in your drawing looking more like...
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How to Make Stick Figures on Your Computer
While the stick figure may seem like something you might doodle out of boredom, it actually has many practical uses. In creating signs for airports that could be read by all, AIGA, a professional...
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How to Draw a Civil War Soldier
The American Civil war was the most traumatic period in American history since the War of Independence. Legendary military figures emerged during the Civil War period, including Robert E. Lee on the...
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Step-by-Step: How to Draw a Fish Jumping Out of Water
Drawing a fish jumping out of water is an action shot that requires some elements of movement or splashing. This is not as difficult as it sounds and can be created with a few simple steps. Using a...
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How to Make a Drawing of the Goddess Artemis
As a daughter of the mythical gods Leto and Zeus, Artemis was considered the goddess of fertility and wilderness. She was often seen pictured with a bow and arrow, surrounded by lush forests and...
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How to Teach a Child to Draw a Human Figure
Teaching a child to draw the human figure is an activity that acts as a building block for learning the movement and shapes included in the human form. Focusing on the different parts and their basic...
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The Advantages & Disadvantages of Drafting Media
Drafting today is much different than it was 10 years ago. Originally, drafting was done by hand with a parallel ruler and series of drafting triangles. With the dawn of computers, drafting software...
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How to Make a Tessellation From a Triangle
Tessellation is a unique form of geometrical art that allows artists to create tiled or patterned masterpieces simply by repeating one or two geometrical shapes. Although triangles are generally...
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How to Decorate a Pythagorean Spiral
A Pythagorean spiral, also known as the spiral of Theodorus, is a special mathematical spiral. To construct it, start with a right triangle with a base and side of one unit each. Then add a second...
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How to Draw Plaids
People have worn clothing with plaid prints since 1500 B.C. Today, plaid patterns adorn everything from clothing to home decor and artwork. All plaid patterns consist of a series of vertical and...
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How to Trace a Drawing Onto Your Body
Tattoos are forever. Unless you pay for expensive and painful laser removal surgery, you're stuck with them for life. For something a little less permanent, try tracing a drawing onto your body with...
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How to Use Wax Pastels
Using wax pastels comes naturally to most art students because the application for these colorful little sticks closely resembles that of many other drawing tools. Many artists have used crayons since...
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How to Make a Cartoon Storyboard
Developing a cartoon storyboard is the process of drafting a story to be turned into a digital or paper comic or cartoon. Many artists draw one image and make that a comic. However, to tell a story...
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The History of the Cross Hatch Drawing Technique
Hatching is a drawing technique which uses closely spaced parallel lines to provide the image depth, tone and shade. Cross hatching takes another step in the hatching technique by using another set of...
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