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Artist's Tools Sew you want to be a seamstress. Most of us, despite our devious natures, are considered to be a little old for Halloween costumes.  The ones in the store can be a problem anyway - they aren't tailored for our personalities, and they're a bit too cookie-cutter (we're deviants after all!). We'd like to make our own pieces that fit our madness a bit better than tacky modern versions of Elvira. Cosplayers do this all the time, and hard core fans of various franchises do as well. Star Trek and Star Wars fans can buy Simplicity patterns for their use, but if you're not a pro or if you need to make alterations, you might have questi

Tutorial Tuesdays Introduction Hi there! In this tutorial, we're going to take a look at something we all struggle with - lighting. After reviewing the basics, we will analyse several common lighting situations and share some useful resources to help you with further learning. This tutorial is a part of our new monthly series at CRPhotomanipulation (https://www.deviantart.com/crphotomanipulation) - and we're looking forward to delivering some great content! Let's start! The Basics First things first - let's take a look at the anatomy of light and shadow. On the image you can see above, there are several terms that you should remember - each of these elements is essential to creating rea

People and Portraits Hello! I'm Kiki-Tayler, the one-who-studies-hands. Hands are complicated things and a daunting challenge for artists everywhere. In this article, I'll walk you through the structure of the hand, how hands bend and move, and how to predict where folds of skin and flesh will appear. Whenever I'm looking at something complicated, I find it helpful to look at the bones first. Carpals The 8 carpal bones don't need to be differentiated. While they do flex and move, we almost never see it from underneath layers of skin and muscle. So I always treat them as a single shape. Metacarpals The Metacarpals hide within the palm of

Traditional Art Basics Week Introduction Traditional art has a variety of very different mediums, ranging from scratchboards to oil paint and copic markers to mechanical pencils. In this article, we will look at the basics of the two best known and most common of mediums: Graphite and colored pencils. This article will also include a few tips and tricks on how these are used to achieve the best results. (Image source: link) Graphite This is the medium most of us start our artistic journey with - a normal pencil and a paper. It is the most common of all mediums, and I dare say that most artworks are done with this medium (counting all drawi

Tutorial Tuesday Welcome Back! If you’ve missed the first part, you can find it here. I do urge you to read it if you are relatively new to painting, and would like to find out about the basic rules when it comes to painting fabrics. If you don't need that, please, do read on! So, without further ado, let’s jump right back into it. Having discussed different fabrics and their attributes, I thought it would be nice to continue with patterned fabrics, how to work them into your paintings, and what to look out for. [ Detail of a painting by Hyacinthe Rigaud ] Painting Patterns So you have the basic fabric thing down and now want

Traditional Art Week Another year has passed and I am thrilled to be able to join Traditional Art Week at projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate), again. My last article was about wet-in-wet watercoloring techniques and you can find it HERE, in this one I will explore watercolor effects. Hopefully, it will inspire you to have a bit of fun with watercolor and take your painting to the next level What exactly do you mean by "watercolor effects"? Watercolor effect happens when pigment is not distributed on a page / paper evenly, but is rather being disturbed and creates a splash. Oftentimes these splashes happen to you unintentionally, especially when you are still l