Abstract!

Ever seen paintings that have a large amount of paint splatters or various shapes?

Well, those were probably abstract paintings.

You can create an abstract in many ways:

1. Dripping paint on a canvas in various ways
2. Painting various shapes in various colors.
3. Or simply let your imagination go wild on the page

Photography tutorial 1

Hey there, this is one of my first posts about the art of photography. I personally have an interest in photography and i decided to do a tutorial on photography because we sometimes need pics to paint or draw from and post online.

There are some things to take into consideration when taking pics to draw from or just for fun.

1. Photo quality
2. Lighting
3. Camera quality

Photo quality is easily explained. If you take a bad picture, it's may not be good to paint to from or to post online. This can range in how blurry it is to little or too much lighting.

 Lighting: that's glaring or a pic that is too dark is usually just as bad as a blurry one.

And camera quality can cause all of the previously mentioned issues.

That's all I have for now.

More to come.

Drawing Inspiration

Ever looked up at the sky and saw saw a cloud that looked like a bunny?

Well, looking at the clouds and finding shapes is a fun way to pass the time sometimes, but it is also a great way to get art inspiration as well as get over artist's block.

You can sit outside and draw out the shape you saw in the sky. You can even adapt your artwork as the clouds change.

You can even just paint the sky as you see it: cloud bunnies and etc.

Tutorial 3: Pencil Grades

There are different grades of drawing pencils that range in hardness and softness.

Hardness: The "H" that you see on a pencil stands for the hardness of the graphite.
Blackness: The B stands for darkness of the graphite of a pencil

2 HB: This type of pencil is the most common among schools and most people have come in contact with this type. This pencil has medium softness and hardness.

Pencils range from 9H to 9B. 9H has an extremely hard graphite to 9B which is the extremely soft graphite.

Choosing art supplies

When choosing art supplies such as drawing or sketching pencils or paints, one needs to consider many things.

Things to consider:

1. Artistic level: beginner, intermediate, or advanced
2. Budget
3. Quality

I'll explain each in depth below:

Artistic level

Begineers are people who are just starting out and either have a mad passion about drawing and can already draw or are the people who want to draw but can't really draw.

Either way, a beginner needs to focus on honing their skills (which any level artist needs to do). They need to master the various basic steps of drawing.

They need to practice sketching, shading, and learning their tools.

Beginners should'nt really bother spending hundreds of bucks on the professional level colored pencils or markers but should start with the art supply they can find in any store with an art section.

Good starter tools for beginners are: student grade colored pencils, drawing pencils that range from HB to 8B (i'll explain later), plain computer paper, and a decenly priced skecthbook.

Budget

This is how much you afford to pay for art supplies because not every one can afford to spend hundreds on supplies when you can spend 10 or 20 bucks on student grade products and get both a large pack of colored pencils or markers and get a sketchbook too.

Quality

The quality of art supplies sometimes depends on the price. The more expensive option is sometimes better.
For example, in colored pencil that are more expensive can lay down more vibrant color and has a creamier and smoother consistency.

However, student grade supplies can be just as good.

Remember: An artist's tool does not define the artist.

Tutorial 2: Art Notebook

Hi, again. This is less of a tutorial and more of good advice. I like many people need to stay organized and cannot take the search for papers and other theings that easily get misplaced. I also cannot stand having a great idea for a painting or something really cool and having something on tv pop up or have someone distract me from my artistic brainstorm and having that idea go poof. Even writing it down can result in lost notes and frustration.

To fix this, I keep a little notebook with me, something you can find in any store in the school aisle. Little notebooks like this are pocket sized  (4 x 3 in.) and are great for jotting down ideas or even making little simple sketches in. 

However, sometimes, you may want to draw something on the spot. So in that case you will need something along the line as a field sketchbook like a cute little 5"x7" hardcover sketchbook (my preference) to quickly pencil in a landscape sketch or etc.

Tutorial 1: How to give presence to a character

When drawing one can utilize various line weights to give different effects on a characters presence.
And in the this post I am going to teach you how to do that.

A character with a thick heavy line on the outside of the character gives the character a "here I am" appearance and means that the character is not meant to be in the background.

*sorry, I don't have an example. Picture the thin-lined example but with way thicker lines.

Similarly, A character with a thin line can easily slip into the background behind text or other graphics.

Also, a character with no lines can definitely slip into the background and offers a lighter if not slightly whimsical appearance.