Making use of multiple modifiers and projection painting this tutorial covers the entire process of modeling and texturing an old, wooden barrel in Blender. Whether you're new to the Blender Foundation's popular open-source 3D computer graphics application or are a seasoned digital artist merely on the lookout for new tips and tricks, you're sure to be well served by this free video software tutorial from the folks at CG Cookie. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, take ...
If you own any bored reptiles and want to zest up their terrarium environment on a budget, this video will teach you how to make a cool waterfall for their terrarium using basic materials. It should take a couple of hours, and the results are very pretty (depending on your painting skills) and sure to entertain any small-to-medium-sized lizard. Not recommended for dinosaurs.
In this video, artist Henry Li, shows you how to draw nine goldfish in a free hand, loose style. He demonstrates proper hand placement, and technique in order to achieve a fluid motion to the piece. Nine goldfish is a good omen for Chinese, it suggest best fortune. Watch the magic happen as he shows you exactly how to achieve this excellent work of art.
Attention aspiring horror movie makers! Have an interest in making fake heads to use as your gory extras? BITY Mold Supply has supplied the world with this great tutorial on how to cast a silicone head or face from Gel-10 and Polyfoam. In the later half of this video, BITY lends great tips on how to paint your finished silicone face for a realistic look.
You can’t expect to paint a masterpiece on untreated cloth. Here’s how to gesso, or prime, a homemade canvas in a hurry. You will need gesso, water, a plastic mixing bowl, a drop cloth, fine grit sandpaper and a house paintbrush. Tip: some painters prefer to use a squeegee to apply gesso, instead of a brush. The edges of your canvas will drip a little, so use a smaller brush to work the excess gesso back into the sides.
Want to learn how to paint your nails flawlessly & create beautiful nail art? Watch this manicure instructional video to create this brick motif. May Paris gives helpful nail polish tips on creating this beautiful design. Be creative! Have some fun & learn how to give yourself a pretty manicure with this nail tutorial.
Want to learn how to paint your nails flawlessly? Watch this manicure instructional video to create this double fading style look. May Paris gives helpful nail polish tips on creating this beautiful design. Be creative! Have some fun & learn how to give yourself a pretty manicure.
This image editing software tutorial shows you how to create a cool watercolor or ink blot effect on photos in Photoshop. This is a simple and cool effect to make your photos look like they have been painted or made out of an ink/watercolour mark. See how to get painterly in Photoshop.
This video tutorial offers tips on various illustration techniques. Illustrate with watercolor and colored pencil in black and white for practical purposes. When drawing professional illustrations, there is not a lot of room for mistakes. Use water color, ink and colored pencil to begin fleshing out your drawings with light layers or paint and ink.
Here are some examples of brickwork for dioramas or war game terrain. Create a fine grit coating for foam carvings using a mixture of white glue, paint and fine sand. Press in brick patterns into foam, or if working in smaller scale, you can coat cardboard with a thin coat of plaster. Find old pieces of dry flat wood to create miniature slats of wood for sides of a barn or haunted house.
Scary Dave, leatherworking master craftsmen, shows how to make this painted and etched leather cuff bracelet. Follow along with these step by step directions and learn how to craft a beautiful leather bracelet with a feather pattern.
This tutorial shows you how to make a fun boffer shield out of foam and cardboard. You'll need four pieces of corrugated cardboard cut into 18 inch diameter circles, a craft razor, spray adhesive and paint.
Beautify those plain white sheets with master designer Todd Oldham. Watch Susan Sarandon discover the wonders of the modern age, by custom printing those bed sheets with fabric paints.
You can make a great picture effect with just an ordinary shoe box, some paint, a magnifying glass, and a piece of plastic. Try this for a great camera lens trick.
This video demonstrates how to make your own icon and use it in Windows. To do this, just make the graphic in Paint, save it as the right format, and create a shortcut using the icon you made.
It's not brain surgery, but teeth whitening systems still hits the pocket books hard. However, there is a cheaper alternative to have the whitest teeth in the neighborhood, and it's called Photoshop. With Adobe Photoshop, you can have whiter teeth in seconds! Really. It's definitely the best tooth whitening remedy for those behind the camera lens. But remember… Photoshop is only a digital cure. You still might have to hide that smile in public… or consult a dentist.
In order to make a tiger mask with makeup for Halloween, you will need the following: moisturizer, white and black liner pencils, black liquid liner, eye shadows, blush, and lipstick.
In this video, we learn how to apply a glitter makeup masquerade mask for Halloween. Start off by applying primer to the eyes, then a dark pink eyeshadow up to the crease. Next, apply purple to the lower lids, blue to the crease, and white underneath the eyebrow. After this, take a darker blue to the outside of the eye and blend together with the pink in the middle. Next, apply the blue shadow to the lower lash line, then apply eyeliner on the top and bottom of the eye in black. Now, you will...
In this how to video, you will learn how create glowing eyes in the darkness using Photoshop. First, open your image in Photoshop. Next, duplicate the background layer. Go to hue and saturation and make the image really dark by turning down the lightness and saturation. Next, select a paintbrush for the eraser and start erasing around the eyes. Once this is done, make a selection around the pupils. Create a new layer and paint the selection red. Next, lower the flow of the paint brush and cho...
In order to make Cardstock roses, you will need the following: cardstock, stencils, scissors or cutting utensil, a cutting mat, color glimmer, a hole puncher, and acrylic paint.
Leona from Artists Resource shows us how to decorate cushion covers with a beautiful multi-colored leaf design. You will need textile paint, metallic pens, scissors, glue, paintbrushes, masking tape, a marker pen, cardboard, scrap paper, and some cling film.
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 ...
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...
In this video you will learn how to do an autumn nail design. To start out, you will need 5 nail colors of your choice. First, you paint your nails in a background color. In this video the woman chooses Mandarin by Icing, a pretty peach color. The next color she uses is a vibrant green called Money Tree, also by Icing. Do 5 slashes with the green or other color of your choice, anywhere on the nail you want. Next she uses a gold color to paint one slash in the middle. With a dark brown color, ...
This video helps you to draw a boat. First draw the base with double lines. Then draw a cabin and a wheel. Next draw small circles on the base. Now paint the entire lines with black. Next draw spokes on the wheel. Shade the base of the boat with a lighter brown color and over-coat it with a dark brown. Paint the cabin with orange and brown color as shown in the video. Give a dark brown to the outer area of the circles in the base and fill the inner areas with black color. Give a white line to...
Love4Nails teaches viewers how to paint nails with a blue, white and gold nail art design! First, you need to apply your background color. This color will be a blue nail color. You should let this dry. Now, take a black nail art polish and do 3 stripes, that start at the bottom corner and go up slanted. You do not have to go all the way to the top. Next, get a white nail art polish and start the stripes at the opposite corner and paint two across - these two stripes will touch at the corner. ...
This video describes how to create intricate nail painting designs. The first step is to choose a background color. You can either choose a lighter background color so the darker designs you paint over it will stand out, or a darker background color so the lighter-colored designs will stand out. For this specific design consisting of 3 flowers and a few dots, the former will be used. Next, take globbing paper and glob it with some white polish. Use a nail dotter to apply the polish from the p...
This video demonstrates how to make a miniature ceramics mold using resin. The object being made is a small saucepan for a doll house. A product called "AMAZING Mold Putty" is used. It is non toxic and can even be used for food. It comes in two tubes. One is yellow and one is white. Take a blob from each tube and make sure they are of equal size. Blend the two blobs together. You must work fast because the material becomes completely hard in 30 minutes. You probably have only three or four mi...
We need a plaster roll, some vaseline,and a hair band. Put some vaseline under the eyes. Plaster the strips to 1/3 of an inch, dip it in the water and place it across the nose. Then take another strip, dip it in the water and place it across the earlier one. Take a larger strip, dip it in the water and put it on the forehead, and two more on the cheeks. Now take a pair of scissors and cut pieces accordingly and place it all on your face after dipping it in water. You need to cover the face, l...
Microsoft Paint has the capability to allow you to draw an awesome realistic car. This video will show the line and filling tools that someone uses to make a sporty car. You can make whatever alterations and adjustments to create your own unique dream car. Draw in wheels of the car first. Unless you plan to draw a perfect side view of a car, you need to use perspective. Using the circle shape tool, draw two circles for wheels. One circle should be slightly lower on your screen, and that circl...
This video shows the secret of painting beach nails and light pink color with white nail. First apply the base coat, then a light purple color on it and let it dry. Now use white color and make some design by drawing small stripes criss-cross as shown. Use a glitter polish and apply it in the space between the lines. For the beach nails apply pink color polish to the bottom half of the nail. Now make a thick horizontal stripe next to the pink color using a dark blue color polish. Use a black ...
Looking for a new DIY project? Follow the steps in this video to get a great view of big blooms and colorful posies with box planters hung beneath your windows.
Feeling lost inside a library? The Dewey Decimal System is a logical and popular book classification system for libraries and schools helping you to easily locate any book or periodical you need. Fool these steps to better understand the Dewey Decimal System.
Fingerboards are miniature skateboards that have become popular collectibles. They first hit stores in the 1970s, and today there are fingerboarding contests, fairs and workshops all over the world. You can buy fingerboards, or you can get creative and make them yourself. In the following video, you'll learn how to make fingerboards using simple index cards.
Make your underwater dreams come true by turning yourself into a bona fide swimming mermaid. If mermaids did exist, you would be the perfect candidate to transform into the mythical creature. So check out this video tutorial form Little Orca to learn how to make your own mermaid tail costume.
While drywall is an inexpensive building material, it's not the sturdiest. Luckily, repairing the inevitable holes is a quick and easy process.
By using LEDs that only put out a little light the eyes can be lit in dim room light but still appear white, the moment the eyes are in shadow they glow bright red. Watch this video tutorial to see how to make glowing LED creature costume eyes for your film or costume project.
Ever wanted a large scale abstract painting for your home or office? Learn how to create your own abstract masterpiece in this free online video series about painting abstract murals taught by expert painter David A. Clemen.
In this auto body repair tutorial, learn from insurance adjuster Lyndon Graves how professional mechanics fix wrecked cars. Lyndon will show you how the pros evaluate the cost of auto body repair, how bent car frames are straightened, how to replace the inner panel of a wrecked car, how to pull dents out of a wrecked car, how car paint is matched to repaint a car, how a car is prepped for painting, and how the pros repair a car paint job.
This video will instruct you on how you can properly hold your Chinese calligraphy brush and how you can properly sit while painting Chinese calligraphy, and painting in the Chinese style.
