see also: Graphics Programs - Tutorials
- About: Drawing/Sketching
Pages of information about drawing and sketching techniques, with links to other sites.
- AG Design
"A Graphic Design education directory with resources ... including a Design forum, blog, graphics software tips, graphic design jobs, ... and much more."
- Calligraphy: Beautiful Writing
"Detailed steps explain how to use the calligraphy pen, how to write calligraphy letters, how to plan a calligraphy project and how to decorate your calligraphy project."
- Color Theory Tutorial
" If you are involved in the creation or design of visual documents, an understanding of color will help when incorporating it into your own designs." Useful for artists and webdesigners alike.
- Dmitry's Design Lab
"Design essentials as color, fonts, shape, texture, dynamism, the principles of using artwork, photography, and animation, plus some more specific issues such as web site navigation or logo design, are treated in detail and illustrated by case web design projects."
- Drawn! The Illustration Blog
This is a collaborative blog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, etc. Each image is posted with commentary ranging from a sentence to a couple of paragraphs.
- The Figure Drawing Lab
"This site is devoted to better understanding of the elements that make up the human figure and how to better portray them. It is intended as a resource for artists and art students who work with the human form."
- How To Make Pen and Ink Drawings from Stills
"This course gives step-by-step tutorial for one technique to produce pen and ink drawings by hand, in the likeness of a photograph portrait which you have available."
- Learn To Draw
"Interactive, easy to follow, lessons featuring Macromedia's Flash technology makes learning how to draw enjoyable and leisurely."
- My French Easel
A blog with "art tips for oil, watercolour and pastel."
- Portrait Artist.org
"This is a portrait art tutorial site, with lessons on sketching and drawing faces, tutorials on digital art, an overview of art and drawing techniques, art supplies, book recommendations, anatomy, and much more."
- Teach Yourself Graphic Design
"If you would like to learn graphic design from the ground up, through self directed study, then this article lists some great resources that will get you started with your design education."
- Watercolor Online - Articles and Tutorials
Links to articles about some watercolor techniques.
- Watercolor Painting - Learning Center
Reference materials and tutorials on watercolor painting techniques, materials, and artists.
- WB Originals
Warner Brothers has produced this site devoted to cartoons and animation techniques. (requires Flash)
- What's Its Color?
"An image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image's primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image. Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image."
