Your beloved sketchbook. It contains all your ideas, your thoughts and your personality. In fact, it probably says more about you as an artist than some of your finished work! So, can smartphones and tablets ever really replace your most treasured journal of creativity? Or, is ditching your trusty sketchbook in favor of that sparkly …
By day, Andrew Sides designs clothing. By night, he designs dinosaurs. Find out why (and how he taught himself to use 3D software) in this inspiring podcast interview.
Let’s take one last look at the finished painting in this series Congratulations – you’re nearly at the finish line of your series on how to draw a car in Photoshop! In this final lesson, you’ll be adding those all-important finishing touches to your 1967 Mustang and picking up a whole load of awesome professional …
How to Draw a Cartoon Car – Color Values Let’s accelerate to the final painting in this series In the previous part of our video course, you learned ho to draw a cartoon car and tidy up your line art. And, now you’re done with the lineart, it’s time to gear up for adding some color! Before you …
Car Caricature Color | 01 |Adding Local Color Values Read More »
Drawing noses can be one of the most difficult parts of sketching faces for many artists. After all, if you get it wrong, it’s difficult to get a true likeness of the person you’re painting or drawing. However, if you get it right, you’ll not only see an improvement in your portrait art – you’ll …
Drawing Noses and Other Facial Features in 5 Simple Steps From Professional Artists Read More »
Let’s speed forwards to the finished painting in this series In our previous lesson on how to draw a car, you learned how to add darker tonal values to your digital painting of a 1967 Mustang. Now, you’re going to apply the same techniques to creating lighter tonal values. These will help give your painting depth …
Car Caricature Color | 02 |Adding Lighter Tonal Values Read More »
Let’s accelerate to the finished painting in this series In the previous lesson on how to draw a cartoon car, you learned how to add dark and light tonal values to your digital painting of a 1967 Mustang. Now, you’re ready to start using these as a basis for a fully-rendered painting using a variety …
Car Caricature Color | 03 |Revved up for Rendering Read More »
Here’s a speedy glance at the final painting in this series Welcome to our next lesson on cartoon car drawings! Now that you’ve got to grips with Photoshop Actions and applying smooth grayscale gradients, it’s time to start bringing your digital painting to life with some color! In this easy-to follow lesson, you’ll learn valuable …
Car Caricature Color | 04 |The Key to Color Rendering Read More »
How to Draw Cartoon Female Characters: Drawing the Pecs We hope you’ve enjoyed the lessons on how to draw cartoon female characters so far. Just like when you are drawing the chest of the male character, it’s best if you first define the pectoral muscles on your female characters. The Pecs are indeed larger on …
Posing Your Character | 05 |How to Pose the Female Figure Part 2 Read More »
Want to learn more about drawing eye expressions? Start off with drawing the basic eye in a relaxed expression like the example above. From here you’re going to be adjusting the eyes to get a variety of different eye expressions. Drawing Anger, Frustration or Annoyed Eyes To achieve these expressions you can simply adjust the …