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In this project, you are challenged by the adversary of portrait artists –natural looking eyelashes. This lesson offers an understanding into the qualities of correctly drawn eyelashes, and shows you how to set up and draw the outline of an eye and add eyelashes. 
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This tutorial shows you the tools and techniques needed to paint a cherry blossom. All you need is some brown, red, and white paint, and you'll be on your way to creating a beautiful painting in no time!
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This comprehensive tutorial explains the process of drawing a butterfly. It describes how to go about creating a basic shape, adding different elements of the body and wings, and coloring the wings with a sharpie.
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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to approach portrait drawings by drawing one facial feature at a time. The tutorial is well-written with a lot of useful tips and details about the drawing process from start to finish.
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This simple project takes you through the process of sketching the shapes of an iris, pupil, and highlight; then, you add shading with squirkles.
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This tutorial does an excellent job of describing how to draw eyes using a shading technique known as squirkles. The tutorial also explains how to outline the Iris and pupil and contains tips for drawing light and dark eyes.
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Knowing where to draw light and shadows can turn shapes into forms, such as a circle into a sphere. In this article, you examine four aspects of light and shadow created by a dominant light source, which show artists where to draw light, medium, and dark values.
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This tutorial demonstrates the different techniques you can use to draw light and shadows on circular shapes. The tutorial also explains the concepts of using highlights, shadows, reflected light, and cast shadows.
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This tutorial explains the steps you need to take in order to draw colorful lips on your portraits. Whether you're drawing on a digital platform or using paints, this tutorial will be very useful to you.
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"Artist Angela Anderson shares tips for creating your own bird nest painting using acrylics. This project is for beginning painters, both adults and children. Educators, please feel free to use it in your own school lesson plans."
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In this tutorial, you'll learn some useful tips about painting a bird nest with acrylic painting. It covers tips such as color selection, brush strokes, and adding detail to acrylic painting. This is a highly recommended tutorial for beginner painters.
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This detailed drawing, of an eye of Shadow the Dalmatian relies completely on freehand sketching, without the help of drawing tools such as a grid. You add the values and texture to her eye, and the surrounding fur, with mostly hatching.
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Drawing a dog's eye is not too different from drawing the human eye. While there are a few details you have to consider, the techniques used to draw dog eyes can also be applied to draw human eyes. This tutorial explains a few of those techniques in detail.
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This tutorial explains the process of drawing a realistic mouth using pencil drawing techniques. The tutorial is designed for beginner artists, and anyone who wants to improve their mouth drawing techniques.
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An illustrated discussion surrounding a photo of a horse’s head focuses on the process of breaking down a seemingly complex subject into simple shapes.
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When draw a horse's head, its easy to get confused by the irregular shape. However, when you break everything down into simple shapes, things become a lot easier. This tutorial explains the process of identifying shapes on a horse's head and rendering a sketch.
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The Koi Fish is one of the most beautiful and distinctive species of fish. This tutorial will show you how to draw koi fish with color pencils and transform a blank piece of paper into an aquarium!
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"Learn how to create a trendy long shadow effect using a Blend in Adobe Illustrator. | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Quick"
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Long shadows are become a popular trend in modern graphic and web design. This tutorial explains the process of creating long shadows using Blend in Adobe Illustrator. Once you've mastered the long shadow, you can use it on all your icons whenever needed.
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Before you attempt to draw adult faces, it helps to know how to plan a place for everything, sort of like a blueprint. Even though the heads and faces of adults come in many shapes and sizes, the same basic guidelines for proportions apply to almost everyone.
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When drawing adult faces, you have to consider the placement of different facial features relative to the overall face shape. This tutorial explains how to examine adult heads and faces, draw the outline of the head, add horizontal lines to the outline, and draw ears and facial features.
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An ear is easy to draw when you become familiar with, and can sketch the shapes of its five major sections. In this project, you draw a realistic ear, by first sketching the individual parts that make up the overall shape, and then indicating the forms with crosshatching graduations.
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Understanding the anatomy of the ear can be challenging when you're a beginner. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the different techniques you can use to familiarize yourself with the ear and accurately draw a variety of ear forms.
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This tutorial is designed to give you a basic look at the steps involved in drawing a simple toucan. This is an especially useful tutorial for any children's book artist.
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You use slightly curved hatching lines of various lengths and values to draw realistic long straight hair.
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This drawing tutorial contains all the information you need to know about drawing long straight hair on your portraits. The tutorial is divided int four parts: comparing hairy drawings, setting up to draw hair, hatching longhair, and adding a simple face.
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In this lesson, an illustrated discussion surrounding a photo of a dog’s head focuses on the process of breaking down a seemingly complex subject into simple shapes.At the same time, you follow along with numerous illustrations to render a proportionately correct sketch
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One of the challenging things about drawing a dog is seeing defining shapes beneath the fur. This tutorial focuses on drawing a dog's head using techniques to render the proportions and textures of a dog's head accurately.
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This comprehensive tutorial explains the various techniques you can use to draw the anatomy of a wolf and African leopard. The tips here can also be applied to any four legged animal such as a dog or house cat.
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Detailed tutorials on how to draw realistic pencil drawings.
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This comprehensive tutorial explains the various steps and techniques involved in drawing the nose and eyes. The tutorial can be used by both beginner and advanced artists.
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This project features the process of doing a professional symmetrical design in color that can be used for many applications, including tattoos. I use colored pencils, but the basic process can easily be translated into digital art in a program such as Adobe Photoshop.
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This tutorial shows you how to create a symmetrical design in color. The lesson explains how to create the under-drawing, add color to your design, and outline with a marker or Photoshop.
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Many drawing subjects, including frontal views of faces, etc., look more believable when drawn the same on both sides.
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Understanding symmetry is an important part of being an artist. Whether you're drawing architecture or a human face, having an understanding of the basics of symmetry will make your drawings more accurate. This tutorial explains a few simple symmetry techniques you can use in your drawings.
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Twenty-three illustrations take you through the process of enhancing your visiual skills while creating a cartoon drawing of a starfish named Starr Fish. Various beginner drawing skills are utilized including sketching accurate proportions, combining lines to make shapes, and adding details with lines and circular shapes.
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If you want to improve your cartoon drawings, you have to be able to use your imagination as well as have some understanding of proportions. This tutorial covers everything you need to know about drawing a cartoon starfish from scratch, as well as creating positive and negative space in your drawings.
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This amazing tutorial gives you an inside look at the steps involved in drawing a realistic looking blue diamond ring from scratch. This tutorial is meant for advanced users, or anyone who wants to push their drawing skills to the max.
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"In this tutorial, I will show you how to create an address book icon using Adobe Photoshop. I will begin by explaining how to set up a simple grid, and how to take full advantage of the Snap to Grid feature. Next, I will explain how to create a set of simple vector shapes and how to color them using basic Layer Style attributes and some Photoshop pattern presets. Finally, I will show you how to add subtle shading and highlights using basic blending techniques and simple effects. Let's get started! | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Medium"
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This tutorial walks you through the process of creating an address book icon in Photoshop. If you're a graphic designer, or want to improve your understanding of the various tools in Photoshop, this tutorial is a great place to start.
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Drawing eyelashes on portraits can be challenging when you consider the differences of the upper and lower eyelids. When drawn incorrectly, it can make a portrait look more like a cartoon rather than a real drawing. When drawing correctly, it can make all the difference in the realism of your portrait.