Tips To Be Followed While Drawing A Portrait

April 11th, 2011

Art workers and painters use different methods to present their work. The one which most of them would want to try is to draw a portrait of a person. They should depict not only the face but also the character of the personality through expressions. Though there are some rules to draw a portrait, a striking portrait only comes when some of the rule are broken. To make your portrait appear unique and special, there are certain things to be kept in mind.

The first point would be to alter the perspective. Usually the arts, 3D/2D graphic images and portraits are drawn with reference photographs. Taking the photograph from a different angle rather than usual would enhance the beauty of it. Next is the eye contact of the person in the portrait. The eyes should be drawn in such a way that it should look at something out of the frame. It would make the viewers curious about what are they looking at and what is making that character react his way?.

When the eyes are looking at something inside the frame, then the relationship between the character and the thing should be given importance. Breaking the rule of placing the subject in the centre and placing in right end or left end can sometimes evoke the interest of the viewers. Another element of gathering the attention is to introduce light effects to your portraits and experiment them. There are almost unlimited possibilities when it comes to using light in portraits. Lighting can create mood.

Next are the posed shots. Sometimes people don’t look good in a posed environment and so switching to a candid type can work. Draw the character while they are at work, with family or doing something that they love. We might end up getting some special shots with them reacting naturally to the situation that they are in. Sometimes drawing the portrait with a property can add special effect and intrigue ness to the portrait.

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Oil Paintings and Acrylic Paintings – Differences

October 21st, 2010

Painting is basically a graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface. Here are the differences between Oil Paintings and Acrylic paintings.

Oil Paintings Acrylic Paintings
Oil paint is made up of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, and takes much longer to dry relative to other kinds of paint Acrylic paint is a paint that includes pigment suspended in an acrylic polymer emulsion with an added quality of fast drying
Linseed oil is the main ingredient that binds oil paint Water is the main ingredient that binds acrylic paint
Oil paint is “oil based” Acrylic paint is “water based.”
Oils take relatively more time to dry, typically several weeks, depending on the ingredients used. Acrylic paint remains the choice of those artists who believe in quick results, since only a couple of hours are required for the paint to dry.
When we use oil paint, we need a solvent such as turpentine to thin the paint and clean up the work space, which has its disadvantages because turpentine has toxic qualities. Retarders can be added to acrylic paint to slow the drying process, allowing water to be added to make the paint more workable.
During the passage of time, oil paint can look yellowish and turn brittle and crack Acrylic is typically more versatile in nature to use for the average artist, although because of its faster drying time, the painter is not able to blend colors or use the wet-in-wet technique available to oil paint.
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Learn and Excel Oil Paintings – Instructions

October 1st, 2010

Behind the beauty of essential oil paintings is the difficult labor of the artist. Paintings are one of the most stunning creation of human beings.  Oil paintings are extremely popular type of portrait that is used all over the earth.

At first to start your painting,  You will need to invest in good paint, brushes, canvas primer, thinners/solvents for cleaning and some canvas.  Color pigments and binders would be the constituents with the essential oil paints. Linseed oils, poppy seed oils, safflower oils and walnut oils would be the oils to be mixed with the pigments. Brushes made up of different fibers are utilized to paint.

Oil paintings wont dry quickly. So it is necessary for the artist to wait until it get dried up. However he can be able to make changes throughout the dry period, which cant be done with watercolor paintings.  Oil paintings do no dry via evaporation, they’ve to become oxidized.

Since brushes are the most important part of painting,  I suggest to use hog’s hair brush, since it lasts long with oil paints. You have to try all the different sizes and kinds of brushes untill you find which one is suitable for you. Another important factor you should consider is thinner for cleaning in between colors and choosing quality paints.

Nowadays, you can find more more superior resources to produce oil paintings such as drinking water miscible oil paints. These water miscible essential oil paints decrease the deep odor of toxic chemicals. All the preventative measures to protect the art from the poisonous nature of the paints are much less needed in these modern days.

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Watercolor Arts Tips and Techniques

September 21st, 2010

There are lots of watercolor tips and techniques available. Eventhough some techniques are quite simple, Most of the techniques will take so many years to learn and expertise.  Some of the tips and techniques to enhance the elegance of your paintings are as follows.

  • It is necessary to use the high quality paints in the market to get the accurate imaginable art in your mind as the output. Cheap paints make your paints look dull and mundane.
  • You need to use the correct paper for your artwork, so that the color of the paper gets reflected into your paint, you apply.
  • If you want to give more brightness to the artwork, it can be done easily using watercolor paints.
  • Bring light to your arts by placing a piece of tissue on the canvas of your painting, when it is wet. With this piece of tissue, you are going to want to pat the paint lightly.
  • If the paint that you have chosen to use dries fairly quickly, you can still take a stiff damp brush across the paint in order to help lighten out the colors shown on your painting canvas.
  • You need to apply some light colors before including darker shades. You may also choose to mix different colors to get darker shades for your paintings.

Have  a look at this watercolor paintings gallery and Submit your paintings too. Enhance your imagination and thoughts and express them through the path of watercolor paintings.

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3D Computer Graphics

September 16th, 2010

You may wonder, when you watch some movies like “Toy Story II” or play a game like Tomb Raider. You will be taken into the totally unbelievable three dimensional world. The magic has been done by 3D computer graphics. 3D is widely used in many industries like medical field, films, video game, science, architecture, engineering and so on.

3 dimensional or 3D graphics is nothing but a representation of an object displayed in three dimensions such as length, depth and height. Most popular 3D softwares presently used are 3D MAX, Maya, Mudbox, Zbrush, LightWave 3D and so on. Have a look at this 3D digital arts to understand clearly.

The creation of 3D objects is quite a difficult task. The process of creating 3D graphics is partitioned into the following tasks for easy understanding.

  1. 3D Modeling is similar to sculpting. It denotes the creation of the 3D model.
  2. The models obtained are illuminated with real world objects.
  3. Materials are applied to the 3D model and texture can be modified.
  4. Applying special effects.
  5. Animation using the software.
  6. Rendering the images.
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2D Graphics Arts

September 2nd, 2010

Computer graphics are basically the graphics created using the computer,  which is generally obtained by means of depiction and handling of images by the computer.  The emergence of computer graphics facilitated the better understandability and interpretation of data,  reforming the fields of animation, movies and video games.

2D graphics Arts are basically the digital images generated by the computer based on the two dimensional geometric models like image compositions, pixel art, digital art, photographs, and text.  Nowadays, they are used on traditional printing and drawing.  There are two kinds of 2d computer graphics namely, raster and vector graphics. Raster graphics or bitmaps are composed of arrays of pixels which are used on most old computer and video games, graphing calculator games  and many mobile phone games. Vector graphics are composed of paths which are mainly used on photographic images..

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Download Free Pictures here!!

August 16th, 2010

Everyone like the stuff when it is given free of cost.  We normally search into many websites to download pictures for free.  It may be difficult for us to find out desired images in an easier way.  It will be of great usage if we can get all kinds of pictures in a single place.

Spillink is the place where you can get all kinds of  graphics images or photos. They are available under different categories like animals, fashion, business, nature, sports, food, education etc.  Spillink provides you with the simple way of downloading the images at free of cost.

There is no need for registration to download these images for your usage.  You can view the preview of the image as well as the original image before you can download the image. Download the image by simply clicking on the download button. You can also copy and paste the code under every picture to use the image in your web page.  Get these images to save in your webpage or use in your mails.

If you want to add any image to these free images, just register with spillink. Registration is simple and free. After logging in, you can easily upload the image in the specified category. Upload your images for free by browsing through the path where your image is located.

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Online Art Galleries

August 16th, 2010

Art Galleries are the places where the creative works of the artists are exhibited.  Art galleries are used purely to promote the appreciation of the arts. They act as the platform between the artists and the world.  Nowadays, there are many art galleries available online.

Spillink is one of the the online art galleries  purely dedicated to the world of arts and artists.  It helps all the artists throughout the world to get good exposure and recognition.  In spillink, there wont be any selling of arts.  It acts as an  online art exhibition to show all your innovative creations to the world.

Register with spillink in a easiest way and start  uploading your images or artworks.  Registration to spillink.com is totally free. Uploading of images can be done at free of cost.  Others can use your images from this gallery only, if you permits to do so.   Get ready to enhance your imagination and thoughts in this world of arts.

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Submit your Image / Art

June 18th, 2010

Stock images are an online database of images that can be used for specific purposes. If they are downloaded and used by the user without any costs,  it is known as royalty free images. Hiring a professional designer or a photographer for an image proves to be very costly.  Spillink.com is art gallery which is the place to  download the images of your choice free and to upload your artworks.

Images included in this website are uploaded by users that are vector images. Most of these images are innovated out of the creativity of users. People who are not comfortable or completely illiterate about designing images can use these photographs. Only excellent images adorning a website or a blog can attract the visitors.

Use spillink.com to download the images of your choice to decorate your website or applications. To respect the rights of artists, Spillink allows the users to download the artworks, only if the artists permits to do so. All the images displayed are high resolution and are of standard size. Each and every image is displayed under a unique category out of the list of categories.

Artworks created using water color, oil color, 2D, 3D can also be uploaded. Millions of users can view these art works. In case of water, oil color art works, they have to be digitized before uploading.  Downloaded images and artworks can be modified and used by the users as per the requirement.

So spillink.com is the website for any designer either to download images, publish their art works, finally to learn expert’s tricks in designing.  Simply use this free resource website to fine tune the designing skills on par with the experts.

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