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When I first embarked into the digital art world about seven years ago, I had no idea how amazing it was going to be.  I got my first digital camera and I was ecstatic that I didn't have to buy film and take it to the photo lab anymore.  And now all the excitement is back again with the arrival of my new Bamboo pen tablet.  I felt like a five-year-old on Christmas Day as I opened the box and unwrapped this little tool.  It's the little things that make me happy :)

With this pen tablet I can create freehand digital drawings and hand-write notes which can be turned into text documents in Word (although I still prefer to type...much faster).  There's a great deal of other stuff I can do with this pen tablet that I haven't explored yet.  However, the main reason I bought it was to draw freehand in Photoshop.  I bought the small version, but I know pretty soon I'll want to go "pro" and get a bigger one.

So I unleashed the creative juices today and created a couple pieces which I turned into Mother's Day greeting cards.  They're available at my CafePress shop.  Stay tuned for more!

Well, now it's back to the "drawing board" for more practice so I can start creating art like this "Cherry Blossoms" piece by Esther Kirby...



Buy your own Bamboo pen tablet at Amazon.com

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When I took a drawing class in college, there was one subject that I always had a difficult time with - facial features.  My pictures always looked like “Patient 8C” in these before and after rhinoplasty photos.

One of my goals in the next couple months is to know how to draw people’s faces, so I’ve started some research and found these tips:

The Legacy Project has a great tutorial and offers some general rules of thumb:

• The eyes are halfway between the top of the head and the chin.
• The bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and the chin.
• The mouth is halfway between the nose and the chin.
• The corners of the mouth line up with the centers of the eyes.
• The top of the ears line up with the center of the eyes.
• The bottom of the ears line up with the bottom of the nose.
  

I also came across this video tutorial over at YouTube on how to draw the profile of a man’s face.

What I eventually would love to do is learn how to draw and paint digitally…like this artist who painted the Mona Lisa in MS Paint…

Other resources to look into:

• How to Draw What You See
• How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs
  

Photo Credit:  HomeSchoolArts.com

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