How To Draw 3D Cartoons Quickly and Easily

I love drawing cartoons. When I was younger drawing Cartoon characters was my favorite pastime. I believe we as artist become so focused on the complected things in life that we forget about the one thing that inspire us to create a great work of art. Maybe your favorite was
Drawing fruit, or a picture of a place you visited, or simply just a loved one. whatever it is find it and remember to use it whenever you feel like your stuck or bored. -Jerald Polk

Drawing cartoons is not the most difficult thin in the world but it isn't very easy either. You need time, imagination and sense of proportions to provide vivid character and make your drawings look three-dimensional.

Color and shades have a decisive role in the business but the lines and curves you use for the contour constitute the basic element. The art of adding shadows can be learned by studying objects in different places of your room if you can count on natural light. Otherwise, a lamp may used to detect the difference that light makes in the appearance of an object. Grab a funny toy that you have in the house and a little lamp and start learning. Move the lamp around the toy and make it a visual note of what happens each time.

Now take a pencil and a piece of paper and try putting down your toy character. Draw the contour and when you think it looks like your toy may use a black color pencil to add firmness to contour.

Next step: color your character without thinking of shadows; they will come soon. As soon as you have filled the contour you will have to find the appropriate color pencil to make shadows with. Use darker shade or whatever Color your character is. Don't use gray or black, they will make your drawing look artificial.

With animal cartoon characters, the expression of the eyes and the proper shading are the basic elements that make them 'live'. The only thing to keep in mind is the head, which must be bigger for a baby animal. Yet, when you wan to create people, proportions are a lot more important than colors. When we watch a film we usually concentrate on the face of an adult human character, but the general appearance can be easily noticed by the way it moves.

Looking at the a photo of yours or at your six year old brother playing with toys in a bedroom will not help. There is nothing funny in real-life proportions. What you should do is exggerate more or less in order to make your cartoon character amusing. A kid character will have a body twice the height of the head. While the adult character will look perfect with body twice the height of the head.

Once you have created a set of animal and human cartoon character (preferably on a graphic tablet with a stylus) and saved them in your computer, you may start preparing for a more difficult activity: creating 3D animations. There are several programs you can use to learn
http://drawings-made-simple.com/ is one of them, also Truespace for instance is free and if you read the tutorial thoroughly and spend a couple of months of you life learning and testing the wide variety of options that the program includes, you may turn into an artist before you can notice. Nothing is easy when you try for the first time, but with a little patience and lot of passion you can make it Believe me, animation is a lot of fun. otherwise there wouldn't be so many adults doing it for pleasure. It is challenging and very rewarding.
Try it yourself. Trevor Johnson

Find Your Place Of Peace

Yeah, that maybe hard to find but I think when it comes to getting away from the hustle of life and just unwind, It's makes all the perfect sense.

Do you ever hated it when you get off of work and your tired, but the only thing you want to do is go home but wait the kids are there waiting to play with you, and all you want is a place of peace. What if your a college student that just got off the 'midterm' train and your exhausted, hungry and tried but you have to come home to a dormitory filled with people who do not know when to stop partying. Or maybe you would like to just find a place of peace to let the inner artist in you come and dazzle the canvas. I know I've been there too...

The first thing I do is clear my mind of every little bit of noise and and get in the car or a quiet place like a cafe, or library (yes they still exist), and just relax and think of the last place where you found that is peaceful and calm. Now envision yourself there for about an hour or so, just long enough so you can rest and be able to enjoy the rest of your afternoon as well.

You can also try this technique before you start drawing and sketching I found that focusing you thoughts on paper and not somewhere before you started drawing will help you enhance your ability to become a better artist. Trust me it works, try it out for yourself and tell me what do you think.

Digital Art By Peter Emerson

The Face of art is ever changing . In this century, it takes the form of digital art. but what exactly is digital art an how is developed?.... It's okay, read on to satisfy your curiosity.

Digital art defined

Digital art is made using a Computer in digital (binary) form.in strict terms, 'digital art' only refers to the art that has been 'non-trivially' modified using a computer. Text data, raw audio and video recordings are not considered digital art per Se. Digital art can be purely computer-generated (like fractals) or derived from another source like scanned photographs or lithographs, to create something totally different and new. digital art can refer to images using a mouse or graphics tablet.

The definition of digital art started to expand and now includes all artwork that uses digital technology as either the product (actual work) or as the process (artwork made by use of digital means). Art experts consider artwork that uses digital technology as their subject as digital art, regardless of how the work was created. In some sense an oil painting of a digital character like the Tomb Raider is considered digital art.

Power of digital art

Technology has made digital art very versatile. Digital manipulation software is widely available and is adding new features everyday. Artist use 'electronic forms ' of traditional painting tools, such as brushes, filters and enlargers, creating images impossible to create though standard art tools

Three-dimensional graphics can be created in a few clicks with the help of digital manipulation software. Digital media is relatively easy to use and gives instant results. This is why mainstream media use various digital art forms in their advertisements. Digital art has made its way into movies, as films are now edited digitally.