Enter the Jurassic Period with this drawing tutorial on the dinosaur commonly referred to as the brontosaurus (or just brontosaur). It's actual genus is called apatosaurus, which is a sauropod dinosaur, one of the largest land animals ever! This how-to illustrates the step-by-step details to drawing the mighty brontosaurus. "Brontosaurio" is the Spanish translation of brontosaurus.
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw steps in perspective. Start off by drawing a dot in the middle of the paper. From here, draw lines using a ruler coming from the middle diagonally on the top middle and sides. Now, you will be able to draw your pictures using these as a reference point. The lines at the top will show the steps that are at the top and farthest away the closer they get to the dot in the middle. After this, fill in the details of the picture making different items around th...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw the animated character, Edward Elric. Begin by drawing the guidelines of the character in 30% black pencil lines. The head is drawn as an oval shape. The shoulder is guided by a large circle and the elbow by a smaller circle. Connect the shoulder and elbow together with a stick line. Add details with the opaque pencil and erase the guidelines. To color, start with a mid-tone and add shading. Use some transparent tones on the mechanical arm. Hi...
In this video, Michael Weisner shows his viewers how to draw a cartoon rabbit. You will need paper and a writing utensil to complete this task. Michael had already previously outlined the picture of the rabbit in his video, but it is unnecessary to do so. You should begin by drawing the head of the rabbit, which is presented at an angle where one eye and the nose are clearly seen. Continue by drawing the rabbit's body, with a smooth curve for the back and some slight tufts of fur at its breas...
In this super sized 16 part tutorial, you will learn how to draw and color Lara Croft aka Tomb Raider. Lara Croft is one of the most famous and sexiest characters in video games and this clip will show you exactly how to create this Manga character.
This video is a drawing lesson, demonstrating how to draw a garden starting with simple geometric forms and slowing elaborating them step-by-step until a beautiful final product emerges. All you need is a pencil, paper, and some patience to create this relaxing, perspective-laden image and improve your art skills.
Drawingnow.com not only shows you how to draw the moon, but also shows what could be described as, drawing everything but the moon. Since your paper is white and so is the moon you will start off by drawing your circle and adding light shading in the bottom half of your moon. Now you can start with your black marker, pastel or drawing instrument of your choice, blacking out the rest of the paper around the moon. With the rest of your page blacked out, it really accentuates your moon and almos...
This video illustrate us how to draw a manga animated angel. Here are the following steps: Step 1:First of all take a sheet of paper and pencil and start drawing the character.
In this how-to video, you will learn how to easily draw hands step by step. First, you will need a pencil and a piece of paper. Next, draw the top outlines of the fingers. Follow this with the folds of the skin at the joint of the fingers. Next, move on down to the thumb of the hand. Once you make the basic outline, move on to the rest of the hand. This includes the knuckles and the finger nail details. Go into the fingers to create more wrinkles and shading. Do this for the thumb as well. Ne...
If you want to draw and paint a robot Mecha style you should first make a square and color this in a dark gray. Draw a silhouette in a darker gray color. You should draw basic body parts such as the head, arms and limbs and shoulder. You should draw this with simple dark layers. In the face, you can draw a different or cool complex design. You can also make the background darker and make shadows. To distinguish the figure from the background color the figure a dark dull blue. Now you need to ...
There are many types of flames you can draw, this video will show you how to draw some long, wavy flames. You can start by coping what is done and then as you recreate them you can start to create whatever style flame you would like . You might want to do the long and defined flames or a fast and sloppy overlapping flame.
Gordon Bruce shows an easy and speedy way to draw and paint a superman. First draw the head portion with a oval face and add eyes, nose etc,. Now come to the body portion which have big muscled arms and a thin body, having the triangle with S symbol at the center. Now draw the leg portion. Draw belt and other attractive features. Now give the outline with acrylic black color. Now add red color to the gown part and blue color to the body. Give yellow shade to belt and triangle and red to the S...
After you start drawing people, you will undoubtedly want to dress them. Drawing clothing is all about knowing how clothes fall, fold and wrinkle. Check out this tutorial, and you will be drawing realistic folks in no time.
This video from Drawing Now outlines how to draw Mike from Monsters, Inc. There is no audio in the video. To being, draw a tear-shaped oval with a rounded top. Draw a half moon that faces down, with the top of the rounded end of the “moon” touching the top of the tear shape. This will be the eyelid. Below the eyelid, draw a big circle for the iris, with a smaller circle inside it for the pupil. To start the arms and legs, add them in stick form. The arm has two segments and the hand and the l...
In this video you will learn how to draw a Dragon. To do that just follow these steps and instructions: The first thing that you need to draw is the head of the dragon. Make the eyes, nose, ears and all the other face details. Now continue with the body and with the arms. Make the wings of the dragon big and draw the claws too. Now make all the details of the body and complete the sketch. You can try to color the dragon and you can try to make some flames too. In the end you will create a gre...
A female body is the most beautiful body in the world. Let's try to draw a female figure. First draw the basic shapes of the female posture. A good body is generally in 'S' shape. The curves have to be drawn properly like the legs, breast, stomach and then the face. When one feels that the body is coming in shape, darken the outlines and give some shadows. This will help in your drawing skills as well as understanding the human anatomy
This video explains about how to easily draw cartoon characters. Wizard demonstrates the process. The step-by-step procedure is as follows:
It takes a lot of skill and practice to draw portraits freehand and have the proportions turn out accurately. It takes time to learn facial proportions. In this multi-part video, you'll learn how to sketch in the proportions of the face so you'll always draw faces accurately.
This a simple drawing video targeted for and taught by a young girl. The instructor demonstrates how she sketches out female figures, either little girls or women, on her drawing board. She makes additional remarks about hoe to modify and personalize these renderings. So gather up some pens or pencils and paper, and check out this cute little video. You'll learn how to sketch people in no time!
The foundation of most fine arts educations begins with the drawing of the human figure. These human figure drawing tutorials are brought to you by Cy Porter of solomation.com. Search WonderHowTo for more figure drawing tutorials by Cy.
Watch this instructional drawing video to begin drawing with a mental philosophy. Drawing is not like photography. You have to decide what is important to you and what details you will include in your drawing. Every line you draw is important only in relation to the other lines you have drawn. Here is an explanation of what might go through your head as you learn to draw.
Check out this tutorial for a detailed tutorial for how to draw a rockstar type cartoon character using the program, Toon Boom Animate. These days, all animation is drawn on a computer and with this video, you can get started and join the digital revolution. This clip is well over an hour in length, so you will get everything you need to know here, for sure.
Illustration markers might be hard to use if you're not accustomed to them. You're prone to mistakes and indecisiveness. But that's probably because you don't know how to use them properly. You have to be completely comfortable with them.
Now that the "Avengers" movie and the "Captain America" movie starring Chris Evans have been confirmed, fanboy hype about Marvel heroes has officially reached fever pitch. Though shooting for "Captain America" has just begun, pictures of Evans wearing his Captain American costume have surfaced, showing a very body contouring costume and a very fit Evans.
Anger is one of the emotions most prominently featured in manga, especially "boy" manga. Thus, knowing how to draw an angry male manga face is an important skill to master if you want to create your own manga-style art. This video demonstrates how to do just that in pencil, starting with the outline of a head. It offers detailed instructions that should enable any budding manga artist to replicate it themselves.
This drawing demonstration of intermediate difficulty features the sketching, shading, and rendering of a portrait of a human face. With copious instructions on creating effective light sources and other technical aspects, this video is indispensable for the intermediate artist.
This tutorial demonstrates for the budding digital artist how to draw a realistic face in Paint on their computer. The figure still has a bit of an amine / manga look about its eyes, but the other facial proportions are spot-on and sure to impress, especially when attached to a body.
Marvel comics have been a major inspiration to a whole generation of artists, particularly graphic novel and comic-inclined artists working in pen and pencil or digital mediums. This video demonstrates some cool techniques for drawing hands in Paint on the computer, with a focus on how to properly use lines to make the hands look more realistic.
A pine tree is an excellent addition to landscape renderings. This video demonstrates how to draw stylized pine trees using a basic charcoal pencil. First start with the frame or trunk of the tree, then add slight branches. Using your charcoal pencil, shade in the branches with careful strokes to represent pine needles.
Shoo Rayner demonstrates how to draw a realistic bat that can be scary, funny, or friendly for children's books. You will need a pencil, pen, and eraser to help you achieve texture. With a light pencil sketch, draw a round head and an oval body. But don't worry too much about accuracy, because there are many types of bats that look different from each other. Your bat needs large ears, a tail, a short forearm and a long upper arm. But most of the bat's wing is its three fingers and a thumb. Th...
Ever since Supergirl was introduced in the DC world of comics she has always been the youthful, ambitious protagonist that everyone knew to respect. Her strength and value made her entrance on the scene a remarkable one, even though she never got too much limelight. This video is focusing on portrait of female character design for manga, video game, and comics basic. The process shows BASIC drawing and sketching video series of comic book characters that will help you gain knowledge of anatom...
Watch this tutorial to learn how to draw a hand giving a thumbs up. Make sure to pause the video after each step and look at the screen every few seconds while you are drawing.
This video tutorial with Hamid Reza Ebrahimi, shows you how to write the letter N in calligraphy copperplate. The video illustrates step-by-step how to write this letter in the most accurate way possible. To begin, you draw a thin slanted downward stroke with a moderately curled tail. Then you create a stoke tangent to the first stroke with a tapered thickness in the middle. To complete the capital N you draw a tangent line upward that is thin and has a large looping tail. For the small case ...
Using graphite and pastel on tinted paper is a great way to give drawings depth and weight. Used right, these materials can really make a drawing pop. In this video tutorial, the artist walks you through the process and discusses the various steps involved.
Characters in Japanese manga tend to have very expressive mouths, ranging from a smirky little line on one page to a giant "O" mouth on the next page. In this video, "Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley shows how to draw mouths the manga way. And we won't just learn to draw one sort of mouth, we'll learn four different styles.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for a Snow Scene. This video lesson was first broadcast fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render this snow-covered road landscape picture.
Jon Gnagy, "America's Original Television Art Teacher," guides us through a drawing tutorial for an Ocean Liner. This video lesson was first broadcast fifty years ago, in 1956. Watch this video sketching tutorial and learn how to render this ocean liner marine landscape picture.
Mark Crilley, creator of the manga anime series "Miki Falls," shows how to sketch hands for characters. Hands can be complicated to sketch, but follow along with this cartoon and comic drawing tutorial and learn how to render hands in no time!
Celebrated and award-winning children's illustrator, Jan Brett, shows how to sketch an okapi, an endangered, African mammal, in this fun demonstrational video. Learn how to draw this beautiful and unusual animal by following Jan's simple instructions that go from making easy shapes to the finished product. Even kids unfamiliar with Jan's work will enjoy sketching along.
Celebrated and award-winning children's illustrator, Jan Brett, shows how to sketch a guinea hen and a zebra. Learn from this video tutorial how to draw and paint these exotic, African animals by following Jan's simple instructions that go from making easy shapes to the finished product. Fun for kids to follow along as well.
