Month: August 2018

So you’ve started out learning or teaching yourself how to draw cartoons and want to draw cartoons of those little critters. You’d like to capture those funny stances that kids take up – like when staring into a jam jar containing some tiny grubs they have found in the back yard. Or maybe it’s that happy-go-lucky look that spreads infectiously across their face . The one that makes you smile too!

I hope you are taking the trouble to do a little practice every day – even if it is a little as drawing some simple shapes for a few moments. Getting your lines to flow well and smoothly is the first technique to master.

Before going on do remember that drawing cartoons is not a search for representative likeness, but the capturing of the essence of a picture in as few lines and colors as possible. This doesn’t mean that they are achieved easily, as identifying that essence and capturing it well are real skills. All it takes is a bit of practice correctly carried thru.

But the practice needs direction and that comes from careful and analytical observation. When you are training yourself pick a single topic for a practice session. Depending upon your choice you could pick the overall impressions, face shapes, hands (some find this tricky), feet or specific features such as noses or eyes.

Drawing cartoon of children set specific challenges.

Firstly, note the difference in the body proportions of a kid compared to a grown up. Kids have a significantly larger head in proportion to their torso size and the cartoonist does well to exaggerate that. These proportions help to show your viewers that this is a child.

Next time you see a baby check out how short its arms and legs are next to to the length of its body trunk. At the age of a few months they are very short and over the coming years they lengthen to reach the adult proportions. As before this indicates age to your viewer so helping them to understand the cartoon and so should be in harmony with your other proportions.

Next, children have smoother skin than older people. Use gentle curves and minimal lines to get your effect. No wrinkles here, but maybe a few freckles to complement that impish grin?

One of the beauties of cartooning is that you can play games with these proportions. At an extreme the caricaturist draws a head and face that is enormous compared to the body size as that’s the bit that’s important to them. But generally the rest of the body is on proportion to itself, even though still tiny compared to the head. As you become skilled you will discover for yourself where you can play games like this to suit your own style.

Remember, the more you practice the easier it is and the better you become. As you work on a new bit you may take a step or two backwards, but do not be discouraged. That backwards step is the platform for the next leap forwards. Do a little every day – but set yourself a purpose every session.

In construction industry steel detailing services plays an important role, with the help of steel detailing drawing you can create accurate building structure. Detail drawings of any building construction represent the members of each assembly and contain step by step instructions on how to fabricate each and every piece.

Steel detailing drawing requires skills in drafting, logic, reasoning, spatial visualization, and communication. A basic knowledge of general engineering principles and the methods of structural and steel fabrication are essential to the practice of this discipline. A computer-aided detailer also requires skills in using computers and an understanding of the specific CAD software he has to use.

Detailed structure shop drawing is the involvement of experienced engineers, architects and general contractor. A good steel detailer will work closely with a wide range of professionals so they can work to provide its customers a superior product. Shop drawing structure is also a necessary thing. It is not possible for us to construct buildings without them, but these drawings are very confusing, and it requires a special staff for the shop-drawing services within the time limit.

The structural detailer should also have knowledge of wind and gravity loads and material stresses. He must be familiar with different type of steel and other materials, architectural details of construction and be able to produce various types of beam-beam or column-column connections. Shop drawing structure is very useful in a whole range of manufacturing and construction businesses like plants, building construction, shipbuilding and naval and marine, and other similar industries.

The shop drawing structure must also be checked for accuracy and completeness by another detailer. During checking comments arising from approval and corrections must be resolved, and the original drawing must be updated accordingly. After this, the drawing may be released for use in construction.

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Chiang Mai situated in Thailands northern part is home to our planets most professional and skilful pencil drawing artists. This majestic provincial capital also houses the incredibly popular Night Bazaar, which steadily ranks amongst Asias greatest shopping places. This bustling night market draws huge crowds of international travellers looking for artistic pencil drawings, handicrafts, travel bags, DVDs, jewellery, clothing, sportswear and electronic gadgets.

The Chiang Mai night market is crammed with little street stalls selling a wide range of cheaply-priced products such as trendy sunglasses, football shirts of numerous clubs, Rolex watches, computer games, Zippo cigarette lighters, CDs, DVDs, T-Shirts, travel accessories, baseball caps, lifelike charcoal portraits, electronic goods, handicrafts, woodcarvings, silverware and many other goodies.

In addition, the most visited night market in the Land of Smiles, is home to some of the most experienced and skilful charcoal painters. The majority of the portraitists creating lifelike black and white charcoal paintings from photos in Chiang Mai are to be found across the Night Bazaars covered area, as well as throughout the nearby surroundings.

Few holidaymakers visiting the city, which is rightfully nicknamed Rose of the North wont leave Chiang Mai without some entirely handmade charcoal pencil portraits in their luggage. Charcoal portrait painters based in this exciting provincial capital rank among the most artistic on our planet and most portraitists painting and drawing artworks here enjoyed the nations finest art education.

Visiting tourists exploring Chiang Mai should not miss strolling around the night market buildings many fine art galleries and observing some of the highly skilled pencil portraits artists in action, while witnessing the creation of magnificent black and white portrait art right onsite.

The art galleries and painting ateliers here display lifelike charcoal pencil portraits from photographs, such as from world-famous persons including: Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bob Marley and Che Guevara, as well as charcoal portraits of animals and Northern Thailands colourful hill tribe peoples.

Most visitors wont be able seeing the difference between the charcoal pencil reproduction and the original photo, it could be a copy! Fortunately, a recently launched website offers value for money charcoal portraits online. Art gifts online include custom portraits from photos, paintings of rural landscapes and orchids, Buddha paintings and psychedelic art.

Lovers of portraiture wishing to order art gifts online can simply upload an image or picture that has captured that special moment directly from their computer to the site. Delivering online art gifts at the customers postal address will usually take no longer than 14 working days.

In order to draw the human figure well, you need to have a good knowledge of human anatomy. Yet many artists today still hang on to the myth that good figure drawing does not involve studying anatomy. Perhaps the reason so many artists feel this way is because they never saw first hand what a big difference a little anatomical detail can make to their sketches.

In this article, I’d like to give you some quick but important points about the human body and how they pertains to your figure drawing.

Of all the aspects of human anatomy, the muscles will undoubtedly have the most impact on how your drawings look, as it is at the very surface. One thing to remember about muscles is that they always pull; every movement that you make is the direct result of one or more muscles contracting and pulling on your bones. What this means is that when the figure you are drawing is engaged in dynamic action, you must pay attention to the muscles involved and depict them accordingly.

For example, if you are drawing a boxer who is throwing a right hook, you must ask yourself, “Which muscles are pulling in order to make this action possible?” Then you would draw those muscles as flexing. In this case, the flexing muscles would be the pectoralis major, the deltoid, and the biceps, to name a few. In most cases, a particular movement will involve multiple muscle groups and the more muscles you can depict, the more convincing your drawings will be. Without this, your drawings will look static and lifeless.

Your ability to recognize and draw these muscles will improve as your knowledge of anatomy increases. As a beginner, you might only be able to draw big muscles like the bicep or shoulder, but as you progress in your study of anatomy, you’ll be able to add in finer details like the supinator longus and the anconeus. This will give your drawing an extra dimension of realism.

Just a light knowledge of anatomy can do wonders for your drawing. For example, there are many muscles in the neck but there is one particular muscle that artists should pay attention to. It is the sternocleidomastoid. It connects behind the ear and attaches to the collar bone. This muscle is very prominent and can be seen on almost everyone. Simply by adding this one muscle to your drawings of the neck, you can instantly make it ten times more realistic. This should show you how useful human anatomy is to the figure drawing artist.

Children need to have a direct experience to the world, in order to learn and grow from their explorations. One way is to provide them with toys which can help stimulate their learning processes. Great toys not only drive their learning development but also aid in enhancing their emotional growth. Play is an inherent part of a child’s life. It is a vital activity that not only gives the child a sense of fun and joy but also helps the child to develop his capabilities and personality.

With this is mind, Child’s Own greatly supports the capacity of a child to design and create his own toys. How? By transforming your child’s drawings to custom dolls.

Different children have different play and activity preferences based on their age and temperaments, but almost all children appreciate plush toys, especially ones that they’ve designed themselves. Child’s Own creates the soft plush toy that your child designed himself. These unique soft toys build on a child’s self-esteem and are cherished for a lifetime.

Girls and boys love to draw. As a parent, it is such a delight just seeing how a child’s imagination can produce wonderful drawings. Your child’s imagination is also at its most endearing, with their unique world view. Ask them about their drawing and you will be amazed and amused by their sometimes complex narratives. This is their imagination going full throttle.

At Child’s Own, any child’s drawing can be transformed into a custom plush toy. All you have to do is send a drawing that your child has proudly produced. From animals, to people, to their favorite cartoon character, your child’s drawing will come to life! The more elaborate the drawing, the more elaborate is the doll. We can create almost anything, based on your child’s drawing.

Once we receive the drawing, we can start the doll-making process. These soft toys are made from a variety of fabrics which we thoughtfully select to transform the drawing into the most marvelously huggable creature. The toys are filled with hypoallergenic polyester fiberfill, and finally finished with the details as per the child’s drawing. In addition, we can further personalize the soft toy by adding a photo of a loved one or adding a pocket into which a special note can be tucked. The soft toy is then carefully wrapped and sent off to its rightful and happy owner.

These child-designed soft toys would make a terrific gift for any upcoming birthdays as well as the holiday season.

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