This holiday season, become a wrap artist! Learn how to make every Christmas present look festive, no matter what shape or size. Wrapping Christmas gifts can be quite the bore, but when you add a little artfulness, it could be more fun than ripping it off and finding your present.
Honey, as a treatment for acne, acts as a natural antibiotic to kill the impurities in the skin. Use honey to treat acne with tips from a professional makeup artist in this free instructional video on skin care. Honey is a good home remedy for treating acne and softening skin!
Popularized by artists like Son House and Skip James, Delta blues is not only one of the oldest forms of blues music, it is among the most stylistically distinct and technically rewarding to play. In this video guitar lesson from YouTube user deltabluestips, you'll learn the basics of Delta-style rhythm playing. While this lesson is geared more toward intermediate and advanced guitarists, this means beginning players merely have all the more to learn. Get started using Delta Blues-style rhyth...
Popularized by artists like Son House and Skip James, Delta blues is not only one of the oldest forms of blues music, it is among the most stylistically distinct and technically rewarding to play. In this video guitar lesson from YouTube user deltabluestips, you'll learn how to play a Delta blues-style slide riff on the guitar. While this lesson is geared more toward intermediate and advanced guitarists, this means beginning players merely have all the more to learn. Get started using Delta B...
Popularized by artists like Son House and Skip James, Delta blues is not only one of the oldest forms of blues music, it is among the most stylistically distinct and technically rewarding to play. In this one-two video guitar lesson from YouTube user deltabluestips, you'll learn the basics of Delta-style strumming and picking. While this lesson is geared more toward intermediate and advanced guitarists, this means beginning players merely have all the more to learn. Get started using Delta Bl...
Take heart, aspiring timbaleros and timbaleras. Eguie Castrillo, having played with everyone from Tito Puente to Steve Winwood, is one of the world's most prolific timbale artists. In this installment of his video tutorial series on the fundamentals of timbale playing, Eguie will walk you through some basic tricks and techniques for playing the clave.
The smokey eye is a staple of makeup and eyeshadow artists everywhere. This tutorial makeup video will teach you how to do a fast and easy smokey eye.
The Gratefulthread has unique apparel and fine yarns. Our fiber artists can crochet, weave and knit. This video crocheting tutorial provides instruction for how to do the basics of crochet. Learn how to make a beginning loop, crochet a chain, and how to add rows.
In this how to video brought to you by ELLEgirl, a professional makeup artist shows you how to highlight your cheekbones. Contour your face and get that sexy flushed look with this makeup tutorial.
This is one of the ways that artist Merrill Kazanjian makes his caricatures. He shows the viewer how to make a traditional/digital hybrid (tradigital) collage portrait. Look for interesting eyes, noses and mouths from different photographs. Make an oval for the head and paste down the facial features. Watch to learn more.
Balloon artist Ori Livney shows you how to fashion a Valentine's Day heart from balloons.
Balloon artist Ori Livney presents another installment in his reef series: this time, learn how to make a starfish from inflated balloons!
Artist Merrill Kazanjian breaks down the process of drawing from a photograph and simplifies it in to three steps. A time lapse demonstration is done at the end. It is a great video to see if you want to impove your portrait drawing skills. This video covers, contour drawing, drawing from observation, crosshatching, tones, breaking drawings in to shapes to simplify the drawing process and drawing the features of the human face. It is an instructional, traditional drawing, video.
This is a video demonstration of an artist airbrushing a portrait of The Hulk from start to finish.
Breakout the black eyeliner! The dark drawn eyes that Edie Sedgwick made hot in the sixties is very in for the Fall. Makeup artist, Mariah Nicole, and SpinDaily.com's Katherine Kendall show you how to do a subtle cat eye and a not so subtle look. Which one do you want to prance around with? Meow!
Heres a quick video on tips for packing your makeup products when flying to a gig, specially if you're a makeup artist, or just plain Janes (and Joes) traveling with loads of makeup.
Paint up some pretty drama using layers of color and texture. From clothing to the makeup, Impressionism was celebrated on the spring runways by mixing textures and colors to create light and movement. Here, catch up with makeup artist Sylvia Del Orto for the skinny on how to score this gorgeous look.
Luminess Air trainer, John (head makeup artist for Desperate Housewives) teaches Hollywood secret for mature skin. Learn how to erase 15 years in 10 minutes while airbrushing to get a natural younger look. Airbrushing is easy and this lesson goes into deep Hollywood secrets on looking younger.
Check out this 1959 instructional film on how to manually set type on a letterpress. You can use these techniques to create posters, chapbooks, artist prints, and all kinds of D.I.Y. old school printing fun. All graphic designers and anyone working in the printing should check this out. The video demonstrates basic principles of typesetting and distribution. The film stresses the correct way of manipulating the type, spotting letters before they are chosen and the importance of following copy...
Demonstrated by expert artists, it is a comprehensive guide to all the basic skills and materials needed to paint a wide range of popular subjects, and packed with practical hints and tips.
This video demonstrates the process of glass bead-making with artist Gail Kop. You'll need a torch, a mold and glass pieces.
If you're a beginner artist, it's best to start off with simple line drawings at first, like this one! In the following video, I show you how to draw a slightly sleepy-looking cartoon bat. He's pretty easy to create - give it a go and see for yourself! :-)
This is a simple drawing tutorial, in which I show you a super easy way to draw a cute cartoon owl! It's a basic line drawing, so it's perfect for beginner artists - enjoy! :-)
Toronto artist, Julia McNeely, shows you how to make a 3D collage with your children. If you are looking for indoor activities for your kids, this is for you.
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VCAD instructor Glen Kennedy, who has worked for several large studios throughout his career, including Disney, Universal Studios and Marvel Productions, introduces fundamental drawing techniques to encourage young artists to develop and hone their drawing skills. In this five-part drawing series, viewers can follow along with Glen to learn how to sketch a boat in two-point perspective.
Toronto artist Julia McNeely, demonstrates the basic techniques of creating a 3D Painting.
I go over how to Draw Pikachu as a vampire. if pikachu was bitten, how would Pikachu look as a vampire. Drawing sites are great. How to Draw All Pokemon, Support an artists cause by going here : http://howtodrawfantasyart.blogspot.com/
I love music. And Art. So when this hit the web, you bet it was inspiring.
Giclee art reproduction gives artists more options for selling their artwork. Learn how to prepare your images from a professional artist in this giclee art reproduction video series.
In this video, we learn how to make iPhone ringtones for free with iTunes. First, open up iTunes and open up the song you want to make a ringtone out of. After this, right click and click "create an aac version". It will start to convert, then once that's done right click on the new song and click "get info". Now you can adjust the start and end time of the song, depending on what you want your tone to be. When finished, click "ok", then create an aac version of this new song. Delete the firs...
The Fennec Fox is a beautiful animal native to Northern Africa. This video art tutorial from Drawing Now demonstrates how draw a cartoony, adorable little example of on yourself. Here are the artist's instructions:
Basic bust drawing : Starting with the standard ball and crossed lines for the face. The artist fleshes out the chin before moving onto the eyes, giving them the general feel of the face. The nose and mouth follow suite. The tribal marking on the characters face are added next and shaded darkly.
Self-tattoo before tattooing a client: the real tattoo artist uses him- or herself as the first canvas. Watch a tattoo artist demonstrate self-tattoo methods in this free self- tattoo video series.
Artists have used watercolor paints for over 500 years for it's soft textures and tones. Increase your understanding of this beautiful medium of art with tips from an experienced artist in this free video series.
Giclee art reproduction gives artists more options for selling their artwork. Learn how to stretch canvas giclees from a professional artist in this giclee art reproduction video series.
