Digital art is art created using a computer. Back when I was around 7 or so, I remember first learning how to draw using Microsoft Paint. The free program takes forever to draw anything and is extremely limited with its features. In contrast, programs like Photoshop CS4 can create nearly perfect lines, blend together pixels realistically, fade several images together and distort an image in thousands of different ways. However, programs like Photoshop CS4 come at a price that almost reaches four digits. You can also use less expensive programs like Corel Paint and Photoshop Elements, which are just as useful but lack many of the nice features found in Photoshop CS4. But luckily, some really nice programmers have taken it upon themselves to create free versions of the expensive Photoshop programs. Both these programs I used for years before I finally broke down and bought Photoshop. Also, these programs are 100% spyware free (as long as you download them from the links I provide).

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Adobe Photoshop is loaded with brushes. Oftentimes, the quality of your lines and your artwork depends on the brush you use. Because of that, before you even get started drawing your first picture, you should experiment with brushes to find the brush that will be perfect for whatever you’re trying to draw. I’m going to go through each distinct brush type for each brush category, experimenting with the brushes and hopefully figuring out what each different brush can be used for.

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Aren’t you glad?! This is the last part, consisting of the background, which I made relatively simple, and can be done suuuper fast, at least this one anyway. I’ll be going about how to finish off your picture. Anyway, as a side rant, I went up to the College I want to attend, and all that happened was one screw up after another. They have my test scores and GPA all messed up, saying I got lower than what I KNOW I did. This is putting a LOT of stress on me right now, especially because I tried really hard and I was a good student. *30 minutes pass* Ok, so I took a break from writing out my rant, listened to a song called “When Reason Fails- Texhnolyze” and now I feel a bit better. I do love that song, and it explains my thoughts on a lot of things. Ah, those beautiful words, believe, hope, miracles, they all play a special part for me, but enough ranting on that, let’s go and finish this shall we?


So the first thing I did, I went back to the background layer, finding a good brush that I could use to shape clouds and the sky, I picked these colors, though you could use anything you want.






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Aaand we’re back with my latest instalment of the “semi-realism tutorial” brought to you by Tala herself! Alright ladies and gentlemen, (I wonder why guys are called gentlemen anyway, are guys really gentle? Most I know aren’t.) Aherm, yes, back to the subject after getting off topic. I’m going to start my second part of the tutorial, which deals with coloring in realistic hair! Here’ you’ll learn a really simple way to color great hair, and do it in half the time you can imagine! I would have had this up sooner, but my dear Kyo was not feeling very well, that and we really needed to have a heart to heart talk about certain things. It turns out that he does care about me very much, it just happens that his thoughts are being impacted by what’s around him, and when your world comes crashing down, it really becomes a challenge to see things in the same light you used to. ;-;

Anyway, I’ll try to get as much as this tutorial up as I can, since I’m also going to be hanging out with Mari and Alex today, which I look forward to! <3 They are truly great and my medicine for everything. Now, how about we get to that tutorial now shall we? Click to read more …

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Good afternoon everyone! Marisol here! Today, we have a guest blogger, Donna Ranskinski from Fayetteville, NC. She is a professor from Roosevelt University in Chicago. Please enjoy.

Through My Eyes

Claude Monet was a fantastic impressionist painter when he was alive. The colors, the vibrancy of the flora and the light airy dreamlike mood Monet created was a fantasy come true. The Robin Williams film What Dreams May Come reminded me much about Monet paintings and how one can see what the want to see in heaven, much like Monet wanted to see in his paintings.Monet was a special painter because he could not see color and images like many people do. Monet was legally blind, as am I. Click to read more …

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Creating hair digitally has proven to be a headache to many people, but trust me, it’s not as hard as some folks think. I had to learn through trial and error—I had more errors than triumphs, but I finally learned. I think I draw pretty well, not to pat myself on the back or anything, but when I first started draw digitally, I had stick hair! Straight lines, no depth, no definition: That was the type of hair I drew. I still have trouble drawing hair digitally, but I am improving every day, well every day that is not filled with writing English and psychology papers and reading dull material (Percy Byssthe Shelley, anyone?). However, I do have a fairly simple tutorial on digital hair techniques. I’ve created this tutorial in five steps, and it uses Photoshop Elements 5.0. If you have an image that needs hair, follow along with this simple tutorial. Hopefully, your character’s hair will look better than mine. Today, I’m going to use Tala’s character, Kotou, for my hair tutorial. Click to read more …

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What do people consider art? When art comes to mind, many people usually just think about stuffy portraits in museums. Remember Cameron from Ferris Bueller? Who can forget that scene when Cameron is staring at Seurat’s “Sunday in the Park on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” and he later tells Ferris that he “saw nothing good?” When art comes to mind, many people have the same response Cameron had: “nothing good.” Well, art isn’t just about stuffy portraits, soup cans, and “Starry, Starry Night(s)” (which just happens to be my most favorite painting EVER), but it’s so much more! Click to read more …

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