Begin Art

How to start with?

1. You can join any art classes, any short term courses in university near by you or join any painting workshop.

2. Chose a subject that inspires you to create a beautiful painting.

3. Don't get disappointed even if you are not able to do the painting as per the subject, but try to make it.

4. See the subject from all the angles, Just don't sketch out everything that has to be painted.

5. For the first attempt you may feel little bit bore, but slowly you will get into it and you will gain interest.

6. while drawing keep your mind open, will help to learn so many new things

7. In painting you can use your imaginative colors. For example grass is green but it could be red or yellow too. Sky is blue but it could be orange, Grey, or any other color.

8. Painting will give you the excitement but it is not always possible that you will complete the work within a day.

9. May be you would jump on another subject, simultaneously in the meanwhile.

10. Keep good focused on the painting, anytime you may feel that your interest is fading at that moment leave it for sometime.

11. As such there is no deadline to finish a painting. It is not a job which should get completed in between nine to five.

12. Use eyes and hands to draw. Do not go by the mental image that forms in the mind. You will never get it exactly the finish.

13. Try to be keep teacher around you to help in areas where you are likely to be stuck.

14. It is not necessary that everything will go right at the first time. Sometimes you may waste time and some art material but then you will learn more and generate more good art pieces.

15. Painting is always learn through trail and error

16. So don't give up yet if it has not worked out. There is always a new subject to work on.

Its Never Late To Start With Art!

As we all know no one is born a talented artist. Even many of the famous artists have acquired their skills with the brush and perfected it for so many years to reach the peak of success. If anyone gets inspired to create a beautiful painting on a white canvas, it means it's an addictive hobby, and then suddenly that inspiration starts getting converted into shape, figure, emotion, expression in numerous colors.

To know more about art one needs to understand ART first. What is art? In simple words art is the use of skill and imagination for the works of art. Art can be a basic form of communication. Just as a dancer sways to a rhythm or beat, an artist picks his brush to color an unfruitful white canvas to make it fruitful.

We all know that we have a budding artist within us. We never try to explore it; we hide our skills, never give chance to give it a platform. Art is really so simple that it does not require any specific qualification, any fixed age or any privilege skill to start with.

All what we need is the time and our own ability to nurture it. One can start learning art at any time. Art can be a good exercise to relax our selves. Art is the way from which we expressed our feelings, ideas, skills, imaginations, and concepts on a peace of canvas.

Art have so many forms like drawing, sketching, painting, scribbling etc. Many talented people take their art form to another aspect and create unique paintings. Now learning about Art is extremely easy. Slowly developed it as a hobby, art can easily become a profession.

How to draw SpongeBob SquarePants

Learn how to draw Sandy Cheeks from SpongeBob SquarePants by following this amazing free tutorial, designed to make learning how to draw cartoons as easy as possible! Simply press the play button below and you can begin – and work at your own pace. Press the pause button any time you need to stop and follow the instructions. It’s really easy! Drawing, sketching, and coloring pages in can be a lot of fun.

How to Draw a Dragon

I've always wanted to learn how to draw a dragon. The fact is, I can't draw anything, let alone dragons. I really wanted to learn how to draw. After finding some really good online videos teaching how to draw a dragon, I gave it a shot. My dragon drawings aren't nearly as good as the dragon drawing videos here, but they are much improved. Sometime soon I plan on uploading my finished dragon drawing, if I get brave enough.

How to Draw Eyes

You can draw millions of faces but until you get the eyes to look realistic and expressive, your figure drawings and faces will never have that awe effect. You can draw wonder and awe through the eyes to your drawing.

Drawing eyes and learning how to draw eyes, does not have to be difficult. There are drawing principles that can help you through the process and draw better eyes than ever before. Some of the things you will want to consider are:

1- Shape

2- Overall size related to the head shape

3- Detail in and around the eyes

4- Values

5- including age marks

6- Emotion

7- Placement in consideration to the nose and ear

As you can see, and probably are aware of already, there are a lot of aspects that go into drawing eyes correctly. When learning how to draw people, the eyes are a great concern.

Here is an important tip to remember when drawing eyes...

This point needs great consideration. It's easy to fall into traps of the icons when dealing with how to draw eyes. Using a football shape for the eye or an almond is wrong. Each eye is individual. If you look closely at someone's eyes, you'll see they don't actually look like like a football. Notice where the eyelids fall, are there wrinkles, how old is your model, etc. Variation in line needs to be observed more to provide the individuality of the person when drawing people.

One quick way to check if you are hitting the head on the nail is to turn your paper upside down, sideways, and this will help you check to make sure your drawing is accurate. This will show you if you have captured the eyes' individuality or if you made it iconic like an almond or football.

How to draw a Dog

I've always wanted to be an artist, but I never could learn how to draw well. I did manage to learn how to draw a dog that looked like the Snoopy cartoon when I was about 6, and I was just tickled pink. To this day, I still have fun drawing my Snoopy dog.

I realize that there are others like me who would really like to learn how to draw better. So, I found some free online videos, tutorials, and printables that help teach how to draw a dog. Most of the drawing lessons teach how to draw dog cartoons, but a couple feature more realistic looking dogs. Some of these simple art lessons are easy enough for even young kids to learn. Enjoy and have fun learning how to draw a dog!

Who say; you can't Draw

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ever heard that said before? Well it’s the same for drawings, one person’s drawing is another persons scribble so to say.

Drawing is not an end it is a means, a means of capturing or creating an image quickly using co-ordination between your choice of tool and your eyes. Not all drawings are created with a pencil in fact any tool that can be used to make a mark can also be used to draw. Even the action of drawing it’s self is considered to be a tool. A process for developing visual skills, co-ordination and creative imagination, it is again not generally considered to be an end in it’s self in fact many believe that it is the process that is the outcome not the end result or drawing.

Perhaps people just think they can’t draw because they never really tried? Perhaps they expect too much of themselves so quickly become self-defeatist and judgmental of there own abilities when they never really tried?

I don’t know these answers but I do know it was very hard for me because I had to teach myself to draw without a teacher or guide so I think perhaps that is why it is hard? Perhaps that's why people say they can’t draw because they don’t have a good encouraging teacher to help?

Other people where very eager to tell me when something didn’t look the way they expected it to look, they would say it’s wrong and seemingly took pleasure in doing so in the world I lived. So perhaps that’s another reason people say they can’t draw because people in the world around them tell them they can’t draw and not themselves, perhaps they are discouraged by other people’s careless comments?

My own son at nine years of age loved drawing and used to draw his own little wrestling figures that where really very imaginative, he would give them names spending hours doing this enjoying himself

Pencil Drawing Inprovement

Pencil Drawing and Mark-Making
In this pencil drawing lesson, we'll focus on the importance of mark-making. Mark-making is the expression we use to describe the process of applying pencil to paper. You can improve your pencil drawing skills by carefully considering your pencil and how it hits the page. Controlling and exploiting the possibilities of the mark is an important step in developing as an artist.

Keep Your Pencils Sharp
Chisel-point or blunt pencils are useful for some techniques, but for most pencil drawing, keep your pencil sharp. Don't worry about 'wasting' graphite in the sharpener - better than wasting your drawing efforts! Brighten the point by rubbing the side of the pencil on scrap paper between sharpenings. If you need a darker line, use a softer pencil, and be aware that a softer pencil goes blunt quickly.

Basic Scanning

I frequently scan images, but not being one to follow instructions, I tend to press buttons and try things out until I get something that seems to work. Some time ago I learned that a .jpg file loses quality every time you edit and save it. I was a bit worried about this, as I tend to muck about with my scanned images a fair bit. So now I follow the steps explained in the article ' 10 Step Picture Prep Guide' by Sue Chastain, About.com's Graphics Software guide.

I find that many readers have trouble with their scanner settings and send in 'pixelly' images or files that are really huge. It can all get a bit daunting - there are so many formats and different variables, different ways of expressing image dimensions and resolution. So it is very tempting to stick your head in the sand and hope that your default settings are the 'right ones'! (I'm speaking from experience here. I still have no idea how to change the exposure on my digital camera....) So rather than email your grandad/aunty/best mate (who is still on dial-up) your latest drawing (all five meg of it....) with half the light tones missing, spend half an hour finding out how to get the most out of your scanner, and send them an image that looks great and won't use up their entire download limit.

You'll find some useful tips in Sue's article, Getting Started Scanning - Introduction'. Do check out the various links from that page to articles by Sue and other guides, on related issues such as DPI and file format, as well as picture-editing tips for many popular graphics programs. Meanwhile, I'll go dig out the instructions for the digital camera. I'm sure those little icons mean something.

What's wrong with your drawing?

You know how it is: you spend hours carefully observing, drawing, shading, then you go back and fix a bit here, a bit there... but somehow, it just isn't quite right. You're not sure what it is, but for some reason, your drawing just doesn't work. The fantastic idea you had hasn't made it onto the paper, or it looks nothing like the subject that you had in front of you. Yep, we've all been there. (That would've been me on Sunday, with pages of particularly uncooperative pen sketches .... ) So. What do you do?

First of all, check out this guide to troubleshooting your drawing. You'll find some tips on getting some distance and changing the way you look at your drawing, which will help you to see the problem areas. Also check out the top 10 beginner mistakes - even if you aren't a beginner. Looking objectively at our own work can be difficult. Make sure you give yourself credit for the progress you are making, and don't be too critical. If you notice some things that need improving, that's great - you can't improve if you think you're perfect! Don't expect every work to be a masterpiece. Sometimes, you need to leave a drawing alone and move on to the next one, taking whatever lessons you've learned from one and applying them from the beginning of the next drawing.

Don't be afraid to ask for help. It takes just a few moments to join the the drawing forum - and of course, it's totally free - and you'll find the members friendly and helpful. You can post your drawings and ask for advice, and share your ideas with other artists.

Cat in Graphite Pencil

What You Will Need: Good quality drawing paper (I used lightweight hot pressed watercolor paper), a range of pencils (F, B, 2B, 4B, 6B), paper stump, eraser, blu-tack (removable poster adhesive) or kneadable eraser.
1. Select your Photograph. Select a photograph that is well-lit, with good visible fur texture and no areas that are hard to see - you don't want to have to guess what shape the ear should be - and a good pose. Elongated or awkward poses are hard to make into a convincing drawing, especially from a photograph. Ideally, the picture should be taken at cat's eye-level.
	2. Trace the Outline. Scan and print, or photocopy your photo (or use tracing paper to make a preliminary tracing), then lightly trace the key points of your image. Take particular care with the ears, eyes and whiskers, and draw as lightly as possible, especially when the outlined area will be white.
	3. Begin Shading Start shading the darkest areas of the drawing. Take your time when working towards detailed areas. Remember that you aren't drawing lines to show detail, but putting AREAS of light or dark tone in the same place that they are on the photograph.
4. Shading Mid-Tones. Using a B pencil, begin shading the mid-toned areas. Use a blending stump instead of your fingers to carefully smudge over and even out the shading. Where you have light fur against dark, use short strokes going against the direction of fur growth, leaving tiny spaces between the pencil marks for the light fur.

History and future of the misty valley.

From our earliest known history this valley has played its part in shaping the identity of Waitakere City and Auckland. This area has been inhabited for more than 1000 years as discovered by archaeologists at various Pa sites in the Ranges.

The Pacific rat, or kiore, a poor swimmer, could only have arrived in New Zealand with humans. In the mid-1990s a scientist radiocarbon-dated Pacific rat bones excavated from caves in the North Island, and came up with dates as early as 50-150 AD. Humans must also have arrived at this time, with rats on board. The discovery was a scientific bombshell.1

Maori Tradition tells that the earliest known inhabitants of the area were the the Turehu, (hapu or sub-tribe of the people called Patupaiarehe.) Generally described as being fair skinned, red- or light-haired, an elusive people who dwelt in the densely forested hills and only ventured out at night or under the cover of the valley's plentiful fog and mist to fish and gather food. Turehu were sometimes heard deep in the bush by Maori, digging bracken fern root, but were often only visible to powerful tohunga/spiritual wise men. A condition of tapu pertained to these forest dwellers, and should any person intrude on their domain they would immediately abandon that part of the forest. Their leader was Tiriwa, and the area known traditionally as 'Hikurangi' now called the Waitakere Ranges and beyond were named Te Wao Nui A Tiriwa - The great Forest of Tiriwa. Tiriwa had homes throughout the region.3

How To Create A Great Color Pencil Drawing

A great looking color pencil drawing isn't all that hard to create, if you know the two tips that I'm about to share with you. Before I go into that, I want to just say that if you haven't been doing your sketches, now is the time to start picking up that sketch pad again. Here's why.

The first thing that you need to know is that sketching is important to your color pencil drawings. I know if you're looking for color pencil tutorials, you're probably just looking for some tips on how to create beautiful looking colorful pictures. Unfortunately, color drawings are not just about applying a bunch of great looking color on to a surface.

Sure, the colors may look great but if you're not very good at putting a drawing together, there's a limit to how far you can go. Sketching is a skill thing. It needs a little time to develop but it gets easier with practice. Your skills are what you depend on to help you overcome any problems that you may come across when you're drawing.

So if you want to jump the gun and jump straight into color pencil drawing, you can go right ahead but don't say that I didn't warn you. If you don't believe my point, you can go out there right now and buy a box of color pencils and a sketch pad and start drawing. You'll learn the hard way, but you'll still learn.

You'll learn that your drawing didn't turn out the way you wanted it to because you didn't know how many layers of color to apply. You didn't know when you should apply the highlights. You didn't know why some objects look so fake. You didn't know why some details are lost in the process of drawing. You'll most likely run into a wide variety of problems without knowing how to solve them.