Drawing and Painting Tutorials

This week, we brought you the most useful articles we could find, covering everything from landscapes to Illustrator to figures. No matter what you're working on this week, we've got something to make it easier:

For the female form, there's this amazing reference on the 12 female body shapes, covering 90% of all women everywhere:

http://ninasquirrelly.deviantart.com/art/12-realistic-woman-body-shape-chart-301110737

For faces in general, check out this chart with all the variations of human facial features, including everything from hair type to eyebrows:

http://majnouna.deviantart.com/art/Catalogue-of-Human-Features-33097648

And for hands, there's another tutorial for that, which walks you through each finger's shape and shows you how to get the expressiveness you're looking for:

http://qinni.deviantart.com/art/Hand-Tutorial-2-298739215

If you're drawing places rather than people, there's this informal video that teaches you how to recreate a countryside in two dimensions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiYBm9qTZ8

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