Art & Photography
How to Buy Art
Need artwork for your home but don’t know where to start? These guidelines will help.
How to Choose the Right Lens for Your DSLR Camera
A DSLR camera can be a great tool, but only if wielded properly. With the right knowledge and lenses, you can snap the perfect picture.
Choosing the Right Lens for Your Photography
It’s a good idea to fully understand the advantages and disadvantages of your lenses and how different lens use will affect your photographs.More…
Choosing the Right Typeface for Your Graphic Design Project
In this guide, you will learn the anatomy of type, and what you need to consider when choosing typefaces. More…
Creating a Concept for Your Graphic Design Project
Whatever you’re working on, having an overall concept for the project before you start is crucial. More…
Creating Visual Hierarchy for Your Graphic Design Project
Figuring out a visual hierarchy (making design elements on a page appear to the viewer in the order of importance) is one of the most crucial aspects of a design project. More…
How to Draw a Basic Manga Figure
As eager as you might be to jump into things and start drawing manga faces and figures, panels, and pages, one thing you are going to realize is that becoming a good artist does not happen overnight. It takes practice, and lots of it. More…
How to Draw a Caricature
Caricatures are the ticket to amusing and entertaining people with your artistic skills, a way to make political statements, or simply a fun drawing exercise.
How to Draw Manga: Basic Female Body Shapes
In our guide, How to Draw a Basic Manga Figure we learned the shapes that make up a figure. Naturally, females have a different body shape from males, even as different females have varying body shapes from one another. More…
How to Draw Manga: Basic Male Body Shapes
In our guide, How to Draw a Basic Manga Figure we learned the shapes that make up a figure. Naturally, males have a different body shape from females, even as different males have varying body shapes from one another. More…
Drawing 101: Seeing Light and Shadows
In this guide, you’ll learn how to see the lights and shadows and how to transfer what you see to the paper. More…
Drawing 101: Shading Techniques
When you understand how shading works you can begin to draw the illusion of depth. More…
Formal Italic Calligraphy: Writing the Lowercase Alphabet
Italic is considered by many calligraphers to be the most beautiful lettering style. In this guide, you’ll learn how to write the letters of the lowercase alphabet. More…
Formal Italic Calligraphy: Writing the Uppercase Alphabet
Italic is considered by many calligraphers to be the most beautiful lettering style. In this guide, you’ll learn how to write the letters of the uppercase alphabet. More…
Getting the Right Color Balance in Your Digital Photography
Digital photographs shot in JPEG format must be “balanced” in the same way that film is in order to have the best possible color rendition. More…
Graphic Design: Principles and Elements of Design
Starting a new graphic design project can be a little overwhelming. Don’t worry—help is on the way! More…
How to Lighten and Darken in Photoshop
You can make most of your lightening and darkening adjustments, even before you learn more complex Photoshop features like curves and levels. Here’s how.
How to Make Japanese Calligraphy Art
If your walls are begging for an Asian touch, this guide will help you decorate like the Far East on a shoestring budget.
How to Make a Stop-Motion Animation Brick Film
By stringing together individually photographed frames, stop-motion animation brick films create the illusion that toys are moving on their own.
How to Make a Story Board
Making a storyboard before shooting a movie is like drawing a blueprint before grabbing a hammer and nails. Do it well, and make sure your film is structurally sound.
How to Make Your Own Oil Paints
Making your own oil paints is a lot like growing your own vegetables—homemade is always better than store-bought.
How to Paint with a Palette Knife
Sometimes painting with a brush can be a pain in the neck. Try painting with your palette knife instead.
Photograph People and Take Portraits Like a Pro
Sure, you can take a whole bunch of pictures of people posing and mugging for the camera, but if you don’t apply some solid techniques when shooting portraits and people, chances are that many of these shots will simply be a hodgepodge of snapshots. More…
Photography 101: Aperture and F-Stop
In this guide, we’ll look at what these terms mean, how they work, and how you use them in your photography.More…
Photography 101: The Basic Conventions of Composition
Figuring out how to frame the image, what parts of the picture should be the focus, and other concerns can seem overwhelming. More…
How to Plan the Panels for Your Graphic Novel
One of the most important aspects of writing a graphic novel is planning out your panels—it’s the storyboard of your work. A panel is a tricky thing, full of possibilities and limitations. In this guide, we’ll show you how to plan your novel for the best pacing and storytelling.More…
How to Stretch a Canvas
If you’re a starving artist, you can save a few bucks and hone your carpentry skills by stretching your own canvas.
How to Tag Like a Real Graffiti Artist
Think you’ve got what it takes to be an urban graffiti artist? Follow these steps to become da ’hood’s next da Vinci.
How to Take Great Pictures with Your Cell Phone
You might not be composing award-winning photos, but if you cross paths with the right celebrity at the right moment, you’ll want to know how to make your shot a tabloid-worthy one.
How to Take Self Portraits
Self-portraits offer a convenient way to experiment in portraiture, and photography with a digital camera makes taking them a snap.
How to Transfer Super 8mm Film to Your Computer
Do you have reels of home movies lying around? Here’s how you can easily transfer that old film to your computer without breaking the bank.