Gothic lettering can look flamboyant, constricted, medieval, vampirish… always interestingly dark and spiky, though. It’s not the most difficult script to learn how to write for effect, and it’s highly adaptable to your mood – you can design your own Gothic lettering system fairly easily once you have mastered the basics!
The best way to start is by knowing and applying some details about how Gothic alphabets work.
You need a thick-and-thin calligraphy nib for all the historical forms of Gothic. A broad italic or roundhand nib is good. It’s easiest to use a calligraphy felt-pen to begin with but you will soon want to graduate onto a metal nib and, to get the real traditional feel, preferably a nib that you dip into the ink every few word...
You must be familiar with the method of One Stroke Painting. It has been cultivated for quite a few years. It is an easier way to create the marvelous designs painted by hand on so many surfaces. Painters who are not very experienced are also benefited.
When you are in the process of learning this type of technique the very first thing to be kept in your mind is to how to load your brush in a correct way. Many a time artists are scared of getting the brushes over loaded. Keep plenty of brushes with you for your drawing.
You should start with choosing any two colors of your choice for your own design. They can be contrast colors, or as you desire. Start dipping one side of that brush in the first color, and then dip the second side in another color. Start to move your...
Everyone who owns a web site will ultimately put images on it. But before you can do that you have to take steps to decrease the size of pictures, as this is of great importance on the internet.
How can you reduce the size of pictures? First of all download Gimp, which I can highly recommend, or any other photo editing software. Then install it, if you haven’t already done so.
Now you need to open the picture, which size you want to reduce, using Gimp. The first we need to reduce the size of the image in terms of pixels. Depending on what you want to use the picture for you are going to need different a different height and width of the image. For me the maximum width is always 560px, but again this depends on your needs.
In order to reduce the size you ...
In painting, you mix colors and deal with contrast. But there are much more color effects, that can’t be explained by most color theory and color wheel info. I’m an artist since 1991. Even when I didn’t use color yet, I noticed that a white painted on black gets a different look than a black painted on white. When you paint a semi-transparant white over black, it gets a cold, bluish tone. And when you paint a semi-transparent black over white, it gets a warm, brownish tone.
Years later I found, that this phenomenon can be explained by Goethes theory of color. Goethes doesn’t juggle with wavelengths, atoms or breaking indexes – instead he consciously uses only his own perception. He found that for color to appear (in for example the atmosphere),...
In this article you will learn how to make an open book in Adobe Photoshop. It will only teach you the basics. After you have made the book you can add effects of your own like adding yellow pages or burnt paper.
Step 1
Color the background black. You will need this too see the white pages at first. After that use a white foreground color and make a rectangle on the right-side of your screen using the “Rectangle Tool”.
Step 2
After you are done making the first page template, you will need to shape it with the “Pen Tool” in the layered window. Make two points on the left side of the page, halve-an-inch before the dark side. Move the top one a little to the bottom, and the bottom one a little more to the top.
Step 3...
If you are an artist using the medium of watercolor, you will want to avail yourself of the very finest surface upon which to work. This is one area you do not want to cut corners and go for cheap. It is one of the most important choices you will make before you begin your painting project.
Arches watercolor paper products have been sold since the fifteenth century (1492 to be exact). That’s over 500 years of time to develop, test, and improve the product so that, now, you and I can benefit from some of the finest painting surfaces known in the arts.
Most of the artists who use Arches watercolor paper do so because they do not like the experience of working with products that don’t match the quality of the champion. Once they have used the best, it is dif...
Painting is an art but correct techniques for acrylic painting will help you to a greater extent. First you need to plan accurately the subject of your painting. You can use the method of grid or the free hand drawing. Be very sure as your biggest hint is that you should never start with attempting to paint a person in the initial stages before you are not perfect in your pencil drawing. Like your pencil first, which will help you to like your complete drawing later.
It is easier to paint the closed mouth of a person, but to paint the open mouth will be difficult and requires constant practice because you will not only require painting the lips as in the closed mouth, but you also need to paint perfectly the teeth, gums and sometimes even the tongue. Your mouth is your most...
Let’s face it – we all can’t afford to have priceless masterpieces in our living rooms and more or less, we might have to settle for the next best thing. This of course means going in for a reproduction painting, perhaps of something that you might have seen in the museum or at some auction house. Fortunately, oil painting reproductions today have evolved to such a high degree that it is virtually impossible to differentiate the original paintings from the fakes. This should tell you that these paintings are definitely worth the money and something that you ought to be aware of.
Choosing what you want
It is not just paintings that you can reproduce now, because you can even have some photos that you have cherished from a long time converted into oil...
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