In this tutorial, we learn how to draw wings. To start, use line options to make curves that bend out and turn into a long and thin wing. You can copy and paste this wing so that all the different parts of the wing are the exact same. After this, use a free hand brush to draw curved lines onto the top of the wing outline. After this, start to add circles and other details to the wing. You can fill it in with color or add in more feathers where they would be on top of the wing. To finish, save...
In this video, we learn how to do a grass silhouette effect in GIMP. First, draw a black mound and then close off your selection. After this, turn the path into a selection and fill it in with a black color. Next, select your smudge tool and use a small circle brush. Set the rate up to 95, depending on the length of grass you want. Now, use your mouse to push up on the mound and you will see wispy pieces of grass form where you are moving your mouse. Cross them over and cover as much of the a...
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a banana caramel mousse cake. Start to make a light meringue that tastes like banana. Layer this down on top of a layer of caramel, and then let it cool and get cold. After this, bake it in the oven and turn it over. When you are done with this, peel off the paper from the bottom off the cake. Next, make your caramel filling by heating caramel up and adding fresh gelatin and cream to it. Next, add in butter to the mixture and allow it to get thick. Let t...
If you're Apple computer needs a little cleaning, not the hardware, but the software, then MacKeeper is the way to go. This application will help protect your hard drive from junk and other useless data, freeing up much needed space on your Mac. Also, you can recover files, hide private files, clean up your login items, apps and plugins, and more! Watch this video to see how to use MacKeeper.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to draw a cartoon bird. Using the gray pencil tool, draw an oval shape for the body of the bird. Then create the lines for the wing and tail. Now add the details with black outlines. Then use transparent colors to fill the body, tail and wing with different shades of color. Add details to the wing by drawing some lines. The beak should be short and sharp, and the eyes should be highlighted in white. Color the branch with the brown paint tool and the l...
In this tutorial, Jenny Jones invites you into her bedroom to show you how to give yourself an easy, 6 step at-home facial. Keep your skin young and bright with these fantastic tips from America's favorite talk show host.
Ray Charles created music in the dark (literally), but somehow we doubt you'd be able to create the same magic while attempting to mold polymer clay in the dark.
Tired of hatching out the same boring triangles and squares? Want to bring your treasured shapes out of Flatland and into the third dimension? Then this tutorial is the answer to all your (drawing) problems.
In this video, we learn how to make homemade cream cheese brownie cupcakes. Start with putting a package of pre-made brownie mix inside of a mixing bowl. Now add in 3 eggs, 1/4 c water and 1/3 c of oil and mix until it's well combined. Once finished, pour batter into a cupcake pan with cupcake liners. Now, to mix the filling, grab an 8 oz package of cream cheese and mix it with 1 egg. Then, add 1/3 c sugar, 1/8 tsp salt and beat it with a mixer. Add 6 oz of chocolate chips into this mix then ...
In this Home & Garden video tutorial you will learn how to grow and juice wheatgrass. Take wheat seed in a bucket, add little bit of compost and wet it with water. Take a tray, make few holes in the bottom, put newspaper, fill the tray with compost up to halfway, spread the wheat seeds and cover the tray with newspaper. After a day or two, remove the paper and put the sprouts in shade. Wait for 8 – 10 days and the wheat grass is ready. Then cut it with love with scissors, wash it thoroughly...
In this installment of Show Me the Curry, you'll learn how to make a delicious fresh fruit tart fit to rival any made for the Red Queen. For a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough of the recipé and instructions outlined below, watch this free video cooking lesson!
In this how-to video, you will learn how to make an animated optical illusion with paper. First, start off with one ball and copy it five more times so that it goes in a line to the corner. Make sure there are six balls in total. Next, create a striped pattern shown. There are black bars with small white lines in between. One white space equals one sixth of the black space. This is essential in making the illusion work. Once both patterns are printed out in separate pieces of paper, lay the p...
hotarrows223 demonstrates how to manipulate the eye color in a photograph using the masking tool. First, you must open the image with the eyes you intend to work on with Photoshop CS3. Next.], you must zoom in on an eye. You should be at the point where the iris fills up more than half of your screen. After that, you must select the iris, outlining it with the selection tool. Then, select image>adjustments>Hue/Saturation. Make sure all the boxes are checked, then adjust the hue or color bar t...
In this video, you will find some tips on making an aerial camera to take footage from the sky. To make your own aerial camera, you will need to follow these steps: Buy some metalized nylon from balloon kits.com. Use a hot iron to see the nylon pieces together. Check for any air leaks by using a shop vac's exhaust. Patch any holes with extra nylon or duct tape. Fill the balloon with helium. Attach a box to the balloon with some mesh tape. This box will hold your camera. Allow friends to hold ...
First download Paint.net. Save the YouTube logo on your computer and then open it using Paint.net. Press S and select the "You" from YouTube, once selected press delete. Now press F and choose the white color, pain the deleted area to fill it with the white color. Press T to select the text tool, select the font Arial Narrow and choose the font size 144, press ctrl+shift+N to create a new layer. Now click on where you want to the text appears and type anything you want. Go to File and Save As...
The author demonstrates how to draw a figure of a nude woman from behind through a un-narrated short film demonstrating his drawing in real time.
In this video, the Flowergod demonstrates how to make an Asian inspired arrangement with bamboo and colorful flowers. He starts with a low pot filled with craft foam and adds some very large leaves to the bottom. He then puts a sparse branchy twig in the middle along with several tall bamboo canes. He adds purple flowers and more greenery at different levels, and a large red flower at the base. The video is speeded up so you can see every step in the process. This is a unique and beautiful ar...
Gift baskets are a great way to celebrate the holidays and special occasions. They also are a great way for you to cheer a friend up and cure their blues. In this quick guide you will learn how to put together a kind and caring gift basket for someone recovering from illness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyIh00VonzY] This is an instructional video on how to use a French press coffee maker, or a "press-pot" coffee maker. The instructor tells you that with a French press you don't need to use a filter because it is built in to the maker. You simply pour ground coffee in to the maker, and fill it with hot water. You then let the coffee brew by just letting it sit for about 3 minutes. You then press down the filter using t...
This video is a demonstration of how to create a Grecian style flower arrangement in an urn. He starts with a green urn on a pedestal and puts in some craft foam. He uses two different kinds of green foliage, one with large leaves and one with lighter green smaller leaves around the base. He then adds some pale beige stalks that drape down on all four sides. He adds some big fluffy deep yellow flowers and smaller red ones, keeping the arrangement in a low round shape. He puts in white roses a...
This video is a demonstration of how to design a parallel flower arrangement. Every step in the process is shown in high speed format. He starts with a low, square pot and adds pieces of green craft foam. Then he adds foliage that comes out in all directions at a low level. He adds some big fluffy deep yellow flowers with short stems to fill in the bottom, then puts in some tall purple and red stalks. Three yellow roses are added at different heights. Then he adds a tall stemmed gerbera daisy...
Create dramatic mask like look makeup using red, white and black color, inspired by the pantomime. Use toner to remove excess oil/grease from the face. Cover up the entire face with clown white grease paint, set the paint with white eyeshadow. Paint the outline of your face using a thick paint brush using black cake eyeliner. Remove any excess white paint outside the black line using makeup wipes. Powder eyes with white matte eyeshadow, then blend in black eyeshadow to create smoky eyes. Use ...
Maria shows how she keeps her family's tummies full by making a hearty and filling Winter Minestrone. Minestrone is an Italian based soup made up of many different vegetables. This particular soup has onions, celery, carrots and garlic. You start by heating up oil in your pot. Then you add in your vegetables and let them get soft. Season your food by sprinkling on some black pepper, salt and rosemary. The great thing about making minestrone soup you can add whatever vegetables that you have o...
Bobby Flay is going to show us how to make an amazing drink, fitting for a prestigious set of guests. This non-expensive drink, fitting for a king, is called the 'Sparkling Pear Cocktail', and who better to show us how to make it than Bobby Flay? Do this with your own champagne or sparkling wine, and its simple, only a few ingredients needed. Just your drink, a pear, and some pear nectar. Fill your glass about 1/3rd the way with pear nectar, pour slowly and let it mix, now simply slice a pear...
Miandza teaches you how to sketch a busy street. You start by drawing a horizontal line and add 2 diagonal lines, for all 3 lines to meet in the middle. Using those diagonal lines, draw vertical lines, at the same distance from each other. These will act as buildings. Also start creating the road in the middle. Add details to the buildings like doors, windows or pieces of decoration. Create trees and two large towers in the far end. The road will have a truck and the pavement should be filled...
Styropyro shows a classic demonstration of "The Vanishing Cup" experiment. Things you will need: a container, slightly larger than the Styrofoam cup, acetone and a Styrofoam cup. Place the container on a flat surface and fill it up with an acetone. Get the Styrofoam cup and Carefully place it inside the container. Watch the Styrofoam cup slowly shrinks as it touches the acetone. After a while. the Styrofoam cup turns into liquid form. Notice how much of the Styrofoam cup is left after it shri...
This video teaches the secrets of getting an edgy rock n roll look. An excellent summary is given below. First use a pearl glide eyeliner in rave and fill half side of your eyelids. Now use grease paint stick in black and apply it on the other half of your eyelids. Use a synthetic brush and blend it out on your eyelids. Now apply the same black eyeliner to your lower lids and apply some clear gloss on your upper eyelids. Now contour your face with sculpt foundation powder and blend it with a ...
This dish is perfect for dinner for two. You need two beef tenderloin fillets with the silver skin cut off, ½ package of phyllo dough, 8 oz of mushrooms, 1½ cup green onions, 2 tbsps of olive oil, 1 tbsp of butter, ¼ cup of parsley, and 2-3 tsps of lemon juice, salt and pepper, Hollandaise sauce. Pan fry the beef for a minute or two on each side if you like it more well done. For the mushroom filling, use fresh mushrooms. Chop up the mushrooms finely. Chop up green onions. Use a little bit of...
Drawing a human being doesn't have to be difficult. With a little practice, it can be as easy as pie. You'll need a sketch pen, pencil and a paper. Draw the outline of a boy and a girl. Then you can draw the eyes, nose, lips and the body structure respectively. Then give the shades on the outline to make it look more graceful.
Jolene Sugarbaker of The Trailer Park Cooking Show has a crazy new recipe that she wants to share with everyone. It's called oatmeal raisin asparagus cookies. Sounds interesting? Jolene insists that they are delicious. Learn how to make these oatmeal raisin asparagus cookies by watching this episode. These cookies are filled with essential vitamins and nutrients that you can't get from just any cookie. Your guests will never be the wiser that these cookies even contain asparagus in them. Alth...
Kevingianni shows you how to make some nacho cheese bites for your parties. These are a healthy alternative to nacho platters. Take cashews, peppers, garlic, nutritional yeast and turmeric for color. Mix your ingredients together and refrigerate. Make nacho bites by adding lettuce to a meatless filling adding some vegetable toppings and garnish. Enjoy at a party with friends for this simple raw cook-less meal. It's a quick recipe but you do need a food processor and a heavy duty blender to bl...
Did you know that even after you've emptied your Mac's trash can, the data still has not been permanently removed from your system? Anyone who knew where to look could easily unearth this data. You can prevent this by using the secure empty trash option on your Mac. Whenever you put something in the trash, instead of pressing delete, go into 'finder' up top and press 'secure empty trash'. What this will do is replace the data that is left behind on your hard drive with random ones and zeros. ...
In this video you'll learn how to make an easy and delicious home made cheesecake topped with some fresh kiwi slices. Easy and quick to eat for you and the entire family. This is a perfect desert to make for the next family function for everyone to enjoy. It's also to cook for those of you on a budget.
It can be difficult to find interesting recipes when you are looking for something that meets the requirements for raw vegan food but here as a great way to make some tasty and wonderfully healthy raw vegan bread using graded apples and ground seed flour. This video will show you clips of the process. If there is wax on your apples you will want to peel them before grading. You will then want to mix your grades olive oil, ground flax seeds, and several other flowers into a food processor. You...
YouTube nail maven MayParis shows you how to create simple, stunning nails perfect for summer. Bright colors and glitter make these nails really pop!
Check out this video tutorial on how to make your Firefox smarter using SmarterFox. Wikipedia sidebar SmarterFox adds a "related articles" sidebar to the left side of Wikipedia.
Don't let that tomato plant go too wild! This how-to video shows how to transform a wily tomato plant into a well-pruned plant. This video also shows how to train the plant to grow up a string. Start eating better tomatoes, even in a smaller space.
Learn how to follow proper netiquette rules. You may be a model of decorum in person, but a bonehead online. Check out how much you know about Internet manners.
Check out this video from Chemical Reaction Tutorials (CRTutorials). If you love filmmaking, prop making, editing and everything else that goes along with making movies, then you'll want to see what Adam has to say about ice hands.
Master the art—and it is an art—of hanging garlands and tinsel on your Christmas tree. You will need garlands and tinsel, craft wire, ribbon and a step ladder. Tip: Follow the six-six rule: Don't hang more than six strands per branch, and leave about six inches of space between tinsel decorated branches.
