The proportions of human bodies vary widely, but these basic rules can help you keep body parts to scale. “The basic proportion of the average person is seven heads tall,” Dockery says. If you draw a front view of a standing person and you start with the head, you can measure out t...
Learn how to draw people step by step in this drawing tutorial. Get to know the human form and improve your figure-drawing skills all in one place.
Learning how to draw hair can feel like an ever-changing, daunting task at first. Hair varies so much from hairstyle to hairstyle that it requires us to be flexible in our approach. In this step by step hair drawing tutorial I'll present concepts to help you problem solve your way throug...
I want to prove to you that you can learn how to draw even if yourwritinglooks like chicken scratch! Some of the things you will learn: How to draw the smart way How to draw more realistically How to draw what you see How to shade realistically How to draw with perfect proportions And...
Realistically, I can only run two virtual machines per host computer. To run the entire network I need half as many hosts as I need guests. Had I built this with separate routers I would have needed three laptops (or one more than I'd ever want to carry). To that end, the Web ...
You need to draw from your own personal pool of images based on other things that you know. You’re creating associations. So it might not make sense to you, but, to me, it makes a great deal of sense. “Of Peleus’ son, Achilles, sing, O Muse.” Me, limping, kicking a pail ...
This will have a few benefits when you get to modeling the checkboxes that will hold these five values for selection; the drawback to using the enumerated type, of course, is that it cannot hold anything other than one of the five possible Subject values. (Languages is, at heart, a stri...
How to Draw a Winter Landscape From Scratch As an artist, you're under constant critique. It doesn't always feel good, actually, it's mostly hurtful and gives away all the pleasure of creation. The pressure to meet the standards and not to be critiqued negatively is so strong...
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You could take our previous suggestion even further by drawing someone holding the violin. This person could be drawn realistically, or they could be in a cartoon style if you prefer. Once you know the style you would like to use for this character, you could then choose who to base them...