Great Tutorial on Computer Drawing

This Youtube tutorial is an excellent way to learn how to use Photoshop to draw and importantly color in your drawing.

Express Yourself, Uh Huh!

Just when you thought you had seen it all, along comes something to make you rethink.

Ever seen someone paint a picture with McDonalds ketchup and french fries?

Nope me neither until a moment ago.

This video just goes to show you that it is not what you draw but how you draw it that gets people's attention. A couple of million youtube viewers can't be wrong.

How To Draw A Vargas Girl

This image is an illustration I did some years ago now back in the day before the advent of the personal computer. Back in a time when illustrations were ALL done by hand.

The technique of choice for me in the 1980's and early 1990's was Airbrush.

You could achieve ultra realism by the smooth flow of paint that you could produce. But like all tools, fairly useless in the hands of the unskilled. This meant many, many, many hours studying other artists, reading books, and practicing before being able to produce anything worthwhile looking at let alone showing to another living being.

So what do you think?

Would you like to learn how to do this? Leave a comment.

Wow You Are Such A Good Drawer Honey!

If you were encouraged as a child to keep on drawing because your drawings were good, then it probably went something like this...

"Wow (insert your name here) that is a really good drawing darling! It looks just like your kindergarten teacher Ms Nesbit! You have to take that to school and put it up on the board"

Sometime later followed by...

"Your art is really good, you should consider a career as a commercial artist."

And then this one when you got your first job...

"Wow a commericial artist -  so you are working in an area you love, that must be so much fun!"

And of course this one...

"You get paid to do that 

(pointing at one of your paintings/cartoons/illustrations). 

You are so lucky to be able to draw like that. Gee I wish I could do that too."

Well, following is a video of Artist Graeme Biddle  a personal friend of mine busy at work (yeah right Graeme you call that work?) who has been doing the "art for money thing" for over 30 years now and has made somewhere between $2- $3 million dollars doing so.

Not bad work if you can get!

Enjoy.