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Step by step guide to drawing a realistic head using shadow shapes
Portraits can be one of the hardest pieces of artwork to get ‘right’. This is because we all spend a lot of time looking at other people’s faces. We are familiar with the array of shapes and proportions, but is seems to be difficult to put them accurately onto paper without preconceptions. Closeup of the [...]
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Double Wedding Portrait Drawing for Diamond Anniversary
This is a recent double portrait drawing I created from an old wedding photograph for my grandparent’s 60th (Diamond) wedding anniversary. The focus is on the faces and expressions, with a much rougher, sketchy style blending into the clothing and flowers in the shoulder region of the picture. The mix of texture (in terms of [...]
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Peter McClory – Street Painting (Chalk Drawing) in Florence, Italy
Street painting is an experience I recommend to anyone and everyone. It is good exercise, most certainly gives you good practice at taking criticism. It is also a great opportunity to work quickly, at a large scale and under pressure, because you have to wash and scub it all away before midnight (or you turn [...]
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Webcanvas – One Big Online Collaborative Painting – Largest in the World
Webcanvas is a large online digital painting project. A large ‘artwork’ that is purportedly the largest collaborative painting in the world. It is free to look at and you have to register (for free) to add your own graffiti to it – because that is essentially what it is – a giant digital graffiti wall. [...]
Fez Game, (GDC Design Innovation Award Winner), Post-modern 3D 8bit style Platformer for PC
Fez is an upcoming 2D and 3D PC Platform-Adventure game with a post-modern 8-bit style. The game is developed by independent game developer Kokoromi. The unbelievably cute and cool character, Gomez, is 2D and the environment which you have to navigate can be twisted between 2D and 3D. Fez – 2D and 3D PC Platformer [...]
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