Fine Art: Page 66

This instructional video shows the simple steps for how to cast a cavity pour mold with Mold Max 30 RTV Silicone Rubber. Learn how to make the mold and make duplicate models of statues, sculptures, or figures, with this casting technique.

This video tutorial shows how to use Smooth-On's EZ Spray Jr. system to spray mold rubber, liquid plastics and casting resins. Learn how to make molds out of any object out of rubber, plastic or resin.

This instructional video teaches how to draw a variety of basic cartoon faces. Learn how to make simple changes to sketch different comic characters.

This comprehensive pottery sequence from Watchmojo.com will show you the basic steps of making pottery. You will be guided through the basic pottery making processes of wedging, prep, shaping, removing, firing, and glazing.

This video will give you tips and pointers on the process of making stencils for your street art. The require material for making this stencil will be wheat paste, paper, ink, and other things.

This video shows Thomas Maiorana of Boot y Amor follows up to his CRAFT: 07 article with tips on how to make your own shoes, as well as modify existing shoes.

Check out this video to learn how to draw a circle with a dot in the middle without lifting your pen. It can really work.

This video will show you how you can take UV (ultraviolet) pictures with any basic camera. In a few easy steps, you too can be seeing the world in a whole new way.

Thomas Maiorana of Boot y Amor gives tips on how to make your own shoes like the ones from craft magazine. DIY (do it yourself!) by hacking into the shoes!

Sculptor Chris Yates demonstrates how he makes a wooden red robot sculpture from start to finish.

Don't get caught in an awkward situation without the proper gear. Corinne from Threadbanger shows you how to make a simple bathing suit cover-up out of an old towel and Rob takes you on a tour of some wacky wears he found on the web.

Check out this video to learn how to make a zipper bolero with an old t-shirt. It's a bit of a complicated project, but you'll get it after watching this video. Make sure you have a sewing machine! These awesome tips are from threadbanger.

This video is a time lapse drawing and painting of former Vice President Al Gore. Attempt to make "Mr. Global Warming" look like Mr. "hottie" Global Warming. Stage 1 is a pencil drawing. In Stage 2, scan the drawing, adjust the mid tones digitally, and then reprint it. In stage 3, do an underpainting with markers (both paint and illustration markers). In stage 4, build up layers of opaque and quick drying acrylic paint to get a fanciful Al Gore. In stage 5, do the detail work (such as...

This is one of the ways that artist Merrill Kazanjian makes his caricatures. He shows the viewer how to make a traditional/digital hybrid (tradigital) collage portrait. Look for interesting eyes, noses and mouths from different photographs. Make an oval for the head and paste down the facial features. Watch to learn more.

First in a series of many tutorials on "retro" architectural drawing as it used to be done pre-computer. This sequence will teach you how you can draw basic shapes and other textures in order to draw an architectural structure.

Does your budding artist also love race cars? A professional illustrator shows you how to draw a sports car, a dragster, and a Formula One car.

Using the DIY CD Platen and Nazdar 59000 Series Ink, you can print on CDs and DVDs with excellent registration and print quality. This is a simple demonstration on manually printing CDs with a 2 color design.

If you have ever screen printed, you most likely have been asked to print CDs. Here is a simple way to create a CD platen for under $15. This type of printing generally requires a vacuum frame, but not if you use the DIY CD Platen. It holds the CD in place extremely well and can be used to print more than one color. Print one color and let it dry completely before printing additional colors.

This video is a simple instructional video on how to apply foils to tee-shirts. Screen print your design first and apply the technique shown for excellent durability.

In screen printing, Photoshop can be a powerful tool. If you have a jpg, tif, eps, or other type of file in which you can't alter, printing from Photoshop will give you too many separations. Here is a way to take a simple design in Photoshop and convert it to spot colors in order to print solid colors instead of mixing inks.

A brief explanation for newcomers to the art of photography to help them understand depth of field, an important aspect of the craft.

A tutorial giving an overview of the Modes dial on your dSLR to help you make sense of the various different settings.

Learn how to use some simple lighting with a Gary Fong Whaletail flash diffuser, the sun, and finally with a second diffuser, the Gary Fong Origami.

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Learn how to use the Gary Fong Puffer, a diffuser for pop-up flashes.

This video is a demo showing how to attach the Gary Fong Whaletail flash diffuser to your flash.

Here's how to make the eyes in any picture pop in Adobe Photoshop in under 60 seconds.

Say you're interested in using Photoshop for your photography, but you don't want to spend the money on Photoshop Elements or CS3. What to do? Well, Adobe has a solution for you! It's called Photoshop Express, and it's free. Check out our interview with Tom Hogarty of Adobe, as well as a preview of what you can do today with Photoshop Express.

Learn how to get ready to go on a location shoot with the Gary Fong Whaletale flash diffuser and how to actually use the equipment on the shoot.

Learn how to use 2 flashes by watching this model shoot in a small space using two off-camera flashes with Gary Fong Whaletails attached.

This video shows how simple converting an image to vector graphics can be using Imagaro Z.

Learn how to create up the set and lighting to capture "the fairy potrait."

Learn how to use some different kinds of lighting for photography, starting with high key.

Learn some basics on editing lighting and other aspects of photos in Photoshop.

This video provides a great tutorial on how to use the 18% Gray Card to improve your eBay and onlien auction listing photographs.

This sequence of videos provides a tutorial on how to set up basic studio lighting in many settings. With these photography techniques, you will be able to create a variety of wonderful portraits with various lighting techniques.

This is an instructional video on how to make leadlight windows and stained glass panels.

This video demonstrates traditional stained glass cutting with a hand glass cutter.

Watch to learn how to draw the character Luke from the manga/anime cartoon "Tales of the Abyss."

Learn how to draw and paint snowy, rocky mountains for manga, anime, comics and illustration in Photoshop. This step by step video shows you how to do so by laying down the base color, blocking in shape for painting, assigning value and color composition, and refining detail for the final concept painting.