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How To: Draw Shadow the Hedgehog
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Shadow the Hedgehog. Start off by drawing the head and then add in the spiked hair. After this, draw in the details of the eyes and continue down to the arms and the rest of the body. Draw in the feet and a gun in the character's hand. Now, use a pen to start drawing the outline over the pencil marks that you just made. Continue on to draw in details on the picture that make it look more realistic. After this, color in the picture with colored pens and u...
How To: Make a homemade graffiti mop
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make a graffiti mop. This task is very easy, fast and simple to do. The materials required for this task are: a small bottle, syringe, whiteboard rubber and ink. Begin by placing the ink in the small bottle using the syringe. Then roll up the whiteboard rubber and place it in the small bottle. Make sure that the whiteboard rubber completely covers the top of the bottle and fits tightly. This video will benefit those viewers who enjoy art and drawin...
How To: Draw Harry Potter
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Harry Potter. Start out by drawing Harry's face, adding in all the details, such as: his hair, eyes, glasses, nose, and mouth. After this, start to draw his upper body wearing his Quidditch robes, and draw his arms. One arm should be reaching in the air for the ball and the other should be to his side to balance him out. After this, start to add colors to the picture. Add in his skin color, then add in his brown hair and gold and red for his sports robes...
How To: Draw a Chibi-style anime face
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw a chibi-style animation face. This task is very fast, easy and simple to do. Begin by drawing box-like face with any type of angle, depending on the character's emotion. Then add an ear. Now draw the eye. Make sure that the eyes are exaggerated and over-sized. Then draw a small nose in the center of the face and add a mouth. Add detail to the mouth such as: teeth, tongue and a chin. Finally, add the eyebrows and hair. This video will benefit t...
How To: Draw Walt Disney character, Pluto
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Goofy. First, draw the nose and then draw in the face. After this, start to extend the face down with the neck and a collar. After this, draw the back of Pluto and then his four legs like he's walking. Next, draw a darker line over the picture, then draw a tongue hanging out of the mouth and eyes and ears. Make sure to draw the tail, then start to color the picture with Pluto's signature colors. Add in any additional details, then save your picture onto ...
How To: Draw Hinata
In this video, we learn how to draw Hinata. First draw a circle, then draw crossing lines through the circle. Draw in eyes where the lines intersect, then draw in the nose and mouth. Make the eyebrows after this, then remove the lines inside of the face. Next, draw in the hair and make the bangs lie flat on the face with long bangs on the front of the face. Draw on the top of the shirt and then start adding in further detail. Add lines to the face, then add in color if you prefer. To finish, ...
How To: Make a ceramic slab plate
In this video, we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate. First, roll out the ceramic. After this, place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. Repeat this on the other side. Next, use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object. Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. Use the excess clay to build support pieces then curve the edges of the plate up and place the support pieces underneath. Use a piece of leather to smooth the edges....
How To: Use different brush types and colors in watercoloring
In this video, we learn how to use different brush types and colors in water coloring. While you are creating a painting, you will notice that you need to use different types of brushes to create different effects on your canvas. There is nothing wrong with this! You can use many different strokes and brush sizes to achieve what you want on your painting. Pay attention to what stage of the painting you are in, as this will help you decide what types of brushes to use, depending on the style y...
How To: Draw a skull
In this video, we learn how to draw a skull. Start off by drawing in the eyes and then draw the nose and basic outline of the head. Add in lines on the head to show broken and cracked bones. After this, draw in eye sockets and add details to the nose as well. Shade in the eyes and then start to draw the jawbone and where the teeth are at. Shade between the teeth and then draw the chin in. Add in shading where you feel it's needed, then add in more cracks to make it look more real and you're f...
How To: Draw Azure Kite from .hack//Link
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw azure kite. Start off by drawing the face, then draw on the hat and the upper body. Next, you will want to outline the rough draft that you first made and start to add in details. Color in the hair and the hat, as well as the skin and the outfit. Add in wrinkles and buttons on the clothing as well. Add in the eyes to the face and include the nose, mouth and ears. Place the tattoo on the side of the face, then add in shading on the entire body. When done,...
How To: Draw the Walt Disney character Dumbo
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Walt Disney character, Dumbo. First, draw the ears flying out in the air, then draw the head outline around it. After this, draw in the trunk outline, the eyes, and the hat. Next draw in the body and legs of the character as well. Next, color the background of the drawing and then start coloring the character in with gray. Next, use a paintbrush to outline the body, then add in any details you see fit. Color in the inside of the ears and then color in th...
How To: Draw a cartoon golden retriever puppy dog
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a cartoon golden retriever puppy dog. Start off by drawing the face with intersecting lines on it so you know where the nose, eyes and mouth go. Then, keep outlining the rest of the body including the legs and tail. Next, use a darker brush to go over the lines and make more of a detailed outline, including fur and eyes. Make sure to use lines on the side of the dog to make the hair look more realistic. After this, paint the inside of the dog using a lig...
How To: Make a silicone mold of a toy figurine
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a silicone mold of a toy figurine. First, roll out clay and press the bottom of the figurine into the center. Next, use a plastic bottle to create the mold box. Cut the bottom off of the bottle, then press the bottle into the clay to make sure the figurine is centered. Now, press the bottle down into the clay and make the silicone mixture. When you're done mixing, pour it into the bottle. Pour in a stream to avoid any bubbles inside of it. Let this sit o...
How To: Draw Neji Hyuga from the Naruto series
In this video, we learn how to draw Neji Hyuga from the Naruto series. Start by drawing the outline of the helmet, then add in a swirl that is on the front of it. After this, draw in the eyebrows and then draw in the eyes as well. Draw in the pupils and lines around the eyes. next, draw in the nose and draw in the mouth as well. Next, you will draw in the shirt and neck for the upper body of the character. To finish the drawing, you will draw in hair on the helmet and down through the face!
How To: Properly draw with a pencil
In this tutorial, we learn how to properly draw with a pencil. First, start off by drawing squares and see what it looks like when you color them in and shade them all differently. This will help you learn how to control your pencil and see how hard you have to press to make the shades look different. You can also scribble a line going from really dark to light. Make sure you are making a range of different colors so you are learning how the pressure on the pencil effects how the color comes ...
How To: Quickly draw Sonic the Hedgehog
In this video, we learn how to quickly draw Sonic the Hedgehog. Start off by drawing the eyes and eyebrows. Next, draw the ears on the side and connect the head around it. After this, start going to the side to draw the three spikes for the hair. After this, draw in the nose, mouth, pupils, and inside of the ears. Add in shading where appropriate and add highlights to the top of the head. Use a black paintbrush to draw the outline of Sonic darker. After this, finish the picture by coloring it...
How To: Draw a realistic skull
In this video, we learn how to draw a realistic skull. Start off by using a pencil to draw out the basic outline of the skull. After this, add in further details, such as shading on the side of the head to show that it is hollow. Also add in the sockets for the eyes and show where the nose is at. Draw in the jaw bone as well as the teeth and the jaw line around it. Draw on cracks to the face at different places to make it look more realistic. Add in shading and darker lines where you feel nec...
How To: Draw a 3D ball & cone
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a 3D ball and cone. First, draw a circle with two lines coming out the side of it. After this, add in shading to the bottom of the circle and then draw a shadow coming out of the bottom of the circle as well. After this, draw a light that is shining onto the ball. Make sure you are drawing a black crayon to get the best texture out of this. Draw in darker lines on the circle, then draw lines over the top of the ball and through where the light is shining...
How To: Make a flaming duct tape wallet with hidden pockets
Duct tape isn't only good for making sure your items don't fall out of your eBay shipments and for securing a rear view mirror in place after your drunken cousin knocked it off one night during a temper tantrum.
How To: Make your own maternity jeans
In this tutorial, we learn how to make your own maternity jeans. First, you will take you favorite jeans, then cut the panel all around, including where the button goes. After this, use any type of shirt and sew it onto the jeans. This will go onto your stomach and under your breasts while you are pregnant. You won't be able to tell that you made these, and they will look great. Remember you can use any type of shirt you want to make the panel, just make sure you don't want to wear it again. ...
How To: Draw a small town using complex levels
Complex levels is just a fancy name for multileveled, architectural structures in drawing. Complex levels drawing is used frequently by architects to help them envision and plan out the building, archway, walkway, and supports they'd like to build.
How To: Draw a cartoon fish with scales
In this video, we learn how to draw a cartoon fish with scales. First draw a circle for the body of the fish, followed by the details of the face and then the fins and tail. After this, color the background to look like the color of the sea. Now, take a black paintbrush and outline the details and body of the fish. Start to add in scales around the body that are small and colored red. After this, draw bubbles coming out of the fish's mouth. Color the fins and tail yellow, then color the eye b...
How To: Draw a young, innocent-looking manga girl
Yes, we know, most manga girls look innocent anyways (though the same isn't always true for their personalities), but this manga girl is truly adorable and friendly-looking. Of course, the big, bright childish eyes and pursed lips probably help with that.
How To: Make a face more symmetrical and balanced in Photoshop
The relationship between one side of your body - including your face - to the other is not like that of a twin to a twin. Rather, most people don't know that the left and right side are more like sisters than twins. This means that one leg may be a millionth of a degree shorter, or that your left ear is slightly smaller than your right.
How To: Draw an 18 wheeler semi truck
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw an 18 wheeler semi truck. Start out using a pencil to draw the outline of the truck, using lines on a vertical point to make sure everything is even. After this, use your pencil to smudge darker marks throughout the truck. Next, use the pencil to make darker lines for the outline of the truck and add in more details to it. Make sure to draw in the tires, as well as the windshield and the headlights. Turn the paper around to get the best angles while draw...
How To: Create a crazy, cross-eyed person effect in Photoshop
When we think about Photoshop, we think about the desire to look beautiful and "perfect." Celebrities get airbrushed and Photoshoped all the time when they appear in magazines in order to make their faces appear slimmer, their thighs smaller, their lips more voluminous, etc. Photoshop is usually a tool that enhances beauty.
How To: Trim a slapped and impressed tea bowl with Simon Leach
Even the best potters don't always get a perfectly finished vase, pot, or jar immediately after throwing. In fact, it's actually quite common for a potter to go back over his work and trim off or reshape the uneven parts to achieve a balanced finish. This is precisely what master potter Simon Leach does in this pottery video.
How To: Draw a gangster graffiti character
In this video, we learn how to draw a gangster graffiti character. Start out by drawing the eyes and the top of the head. After this, draw on the nose and mouth, with sharp teeth coming out of the mouth. Also, draw in the eyebrows and a scar on the top of the head. Continue down the body to draw the chest and arms, with one arm holding a spray paint bottle. Next, draw very baggy jeans on the legs, then raw over-sized shoes onto the bottom. Make sure to add in further details to make the drawi...
How To: Make criss cross textured tea bowls with Simon Leach
Master potter Simon Leach is so good at what he does because he follows his own advice: practice, practice, practice! In this tutorial by Simon Leach, you'll watch Leach as he throws and sculpts a very pretty textured tea bowl. Using his fingers to help mold the tall form, Leach skillfully applies a lower rim and then adds a criss cross pattern by slapping a textured mold onto the pot's side.
How To: Draw a gothic blue cross with a heart and rose
Contrary to popular belief, graffiti doesn't have to be all tough names, tough tags, and tough gansters. In fact, you can draw just about any subject you want using the graffiti style in order to make it look cooler and more street beautiful. But don't take our word for it.
How To: Color and shade the name "Real" in graffiti with Wizard
For this fun drawing tutorial, graffiti genius Wizard does two things he's never done before: 1. He graffitis his own last name, "Real," and 2. He colors in his graffiti, which includes clowns that could scare the pants off of the Joker, a bumpy brick wall, and a teeny bumble bee/clown hybrid who's more creepy than cute.
How To: Draw a malevolent killer clown with Wizard
Clowns are the stuff of the most horrible nightmares for us, but if you're one of the few who either find them funny or find them entertaining in a really creepy way, then this is the perfect drawing tutorial for you.
How To: Use the chattering surface technique to sculpt a tall form pot
There are lots of techniques you can use to throw a pot and to sculpt and mold it, but when you get a big order for a batch of pots, the best technique you can use is the technique that will produce the largest quantity in the least amount of time.
How To: Use the chattering technique on a flat form pottery piece
Are you looking to make your pottery projects more quickly and with less stress? Then this is the perfect tutorial for you. Lakeside Pottery shows you step by step how to flatten and shape a flat form pottery piece using a chattering technique.
How To: Draw the Seven Dwarfs from Disney's "Snow White"
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw the Seven Dwarfs from Disney's Snow White. First, you will outline all the bodies of the different characters laying next to each other. After this, start to fill in the details of the faces and the outfits of the characters. Next, add in the colors of all the outfits, and add in the eye color and mouth colors. Continue to add in details of the clothing, adding the belts and the buttons of the outfits. Erase the lines that aren't needed, then fill in the...
How To: Draw a fashion sketch with Threadbanger & Simplicity
In this video, we learn how to draw a fashion sketch. Start off by using a fine pen and drawing the silhouette of a woman. Draw on the outfit to the woman, adding in all the fine details. Draw in ruffles of the clothing as well as the prints of clothing you are going to use. Use a colored pencil to color in the picture so you know what colors you want the clothes to come out like. Shadow the model slightly to make it look more realistic, then finish up the details of the image. When finished,...
How To: Draw a manga chibi eye
In this video, we learn how to draw a manga chibi eye. Start off by drawing an outline of the eye with the round middle and the lines on top and on the bottom. After this, start to add in the small details of the eye, like the pupil and shine marks on it. Next, start to shade in the eye and make the lines thicker. Continue to draw in black until the back of the eye is covered black and another portion of the eye is white. Switch back and forth between different pencils to help you color in di...
How To: Draw penguins
Shoo Rayner teaches us how to draw penguins in this tutorial. Start off by drawing a boxed shape for the body, then draw the head and beak onto the top. After this draw on the windows as well as the belly and the feet of the penguin. Use a light pencil while you are doing this, since it's just the outline. After this, draw the inner body of the penguin, then start adding further details. Use a darker pen or pencil to draw over the outline and create the entire penguin. You can draw from the s...
How To: Draw foreshortened figures
In this video, we learn how to draw foreshortened figures. First draw a circle and then continue drawing other circles to connect them together and make an out line. After you have drawn these, you will start to outline the circles so you see a body detail coming out of the drawing. Draw in the legs and the arms as well as the head. Don't worry about adding details to this, it's all about drawing just the figure. Shade on the different areas and add in lines to make the figure look more reali...
HowTo: Make Your Own Magical Orbs of Light
Join in on the light-writing magic! Flickr user evilKitchen demonstrates how to build a switchable, spinnable multicolor LED bundle for making graffiti orbs of light (as seen previously in Wonderment).