This week we focused on articles that taught specific special effects, and how to make that perfect composition with more efficiency than ever. 


This YouTube video taught how to acheive the 'reflections in the sunglasses' look:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe46QxIY1IU


And this PSD tutorial showed how to create 3D ice letters in photoshop, walking you through each step one by one until your letters are wet and melting:


http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/3d-ice-text-effect/


Finally, Student Art Guide brings us nifty tricks for framing and building a composition more efficiently:


http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/how-to-draw-and-paint-faster


So if you're looking for a new effect or motif in your artwork, try out one of these! And to stay updated with our curations of how to draw and create tutorials, subscribe to our scoops!