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Great tip!
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I tend to use hard pastels or pastel pencils for sketching-in the outlines of basic shapes and the overall layout of the painting, and then fill-in with subsequent layers of soft pastels
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How to draw Selma Bouvier from the Simpsons Nice work - and a great video!
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There are a lot of really useful books on learning to draw, that you can buy conveniently online at Amazon.com
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A great book for learning how to draw: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
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Drawing "white space" - ( the space around an object, rather than the object itself) - is a great way of overcoming the tendency of your subconscious to influance your drawing with its own preconceptions of how it thinks something should look - rather than what it actually looks like...
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(Original reply dated 29th May 2012) - Today, I managed to get started on a new pastel painting. (Apart from finishing-off another one that I started last year sometime, this is my first art of 2012!!) Having just about run out of excuses, to put-off starting something new; I attached a blank sheet of paper to my board. I then sat there and just stared at it, refusing to leave my studio until a scene came into my mind and pastel had been applied to paper. In the absence of a scene that I could visualize and wanted to paint, I was fully planning to just start applying sweeping lines and colours to the paper and give abstract art a try! Happily, though, a fairly simple scene did occur to me and I am glad to say that I subsequently spent a couple of quite satisfying hours actually painting again! Here's the result of my little burst of enthusiasm: This my ideal view from an imaginary kitchen window in my ideal imaginary country cottage: This was the first ever painting that I created entirely from my own imagination, without any form of reference to photographs, actual scenes or other artworks. Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think. All comments and criticism, good or bad, will be very gratefully accepted. (There is no such thing as bad criticism in my book!)
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If you are serious about selling your art, check out this link from one of the ArtWanted.com sister websites. This is a totally free course on marketing your art and it is delivered via email, over a period of 8 weeks: http://www.artistmarketingtips.com/ Highly recommended!
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As a Full Member of ArtFreaks.com, you can also upload high resolution image files of your work in the Downloads module - and then charge an amount, (which you set,) for every time someone downloads a copy of your file. The person who has downloaded your file can then use the file for making a high quality print of your art. The link to the Downloads module is in the main navigation bar at the head of (almost) every page in the site. (Depending on your screen resolution, it might be under the "More" tab.) ArtFreaks.com takes 10% of whatever you decide to charge, every time payment is made for downloading one of your files. (This simply helps to offset some of our running costs...) It costs absolutely nothing, other than a bit of your time, to give this new feature of ArtFreaks.com a try. Tip: Upload a small, low-resolution and preferably water-marked screenshot with each high resolution file upload, so that people can see what they are getting. At the time of writing, you can upload image files of up to 30Mb in the Downloads module.
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Thanks for your interest in ArtFreaks.com Here's another site that you could try: Take a look at ArtWanted.com. They have a free entry-level membership if you just want to try-out the site and if you like them, you can always go for a paid membership package that would allow you to sell high quality prints of your work on line. (AW handle getting your prints made, shipping, billing etc. so it's really no hassle...)
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Hello and welcome to ArtFreaks.com! Sorry about the cumbersome registration process - it's the only way that I can keep the spammers out these days. You can get a free upgrade to the Full Members group, simply by updating your profile, posting a few comments or uploading some art or photography in the Gallery. As a spam control measure, New Members have some restrictions with regards to posting and things like messaging, use of the free Classifieds module, Downloads, etc...
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Any suggestions for new categories in the Forums, Gallery or the Articles database, please feel free to let me know by way of a reply to this topic. Happy posting! Vic Rolfe - Owner of artfreaks.com
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Thanks for your continued interest in my site. It is an honor to have you here!
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I love this!
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Image Moderation -> Edit Image If you give this a title and a little bit of discriptive text, it will help to make your image more searchable...
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Nice work! Very original and highly interesting!
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My favorite spot in Subic... It was a tragedy to hear about Paul's cold-blooded murder... RIP Paul. Justice for the taking of a good man's life can never be fully metered-out by Man... God will deal with this.
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Hello and welcome to ArtFreaks.com! Sorry about the cumbersome registration process - it's the only way that I can keep the spammers out these days. You can get a free upgrade to the Full Members group, simply by updating your profile, posting a few comments or uploading some art or photography in the Gallery. As a spam control measure, New Members have some restrictions with regards to posting and things like messaging, use of the free Classifieds module, Downloads, etc...
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So if anyone has got any hot tips for manga and anime art artists, they can sign-up for a free membership of artfreaks.com and upload them in the Hot Tips for Artists section of our Articles database. Just click on Browse -> Articles
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Very good. I like this!
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