Tutorials & Project Ideas

Art School

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How to Prepare an Art School Portfolio for College Admission

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How to Critique Art: Strategies for Teachers & Students
upcoming

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How to Use a Sketchbook
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Drawing  

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Draw an Imaginary Tree with Pen, Ink, & Markers
upcoming

Tutorial
Marker Drawing & Collage in Guangzhou, China

Tutorial
How to Draw Cats with Colored Pencils & Markers

Tutorial
Drawing with Brush Pens in Taiwan

Tutorial
Still Life Crayon Drawing

Tutorial
Marker Drawing Techniques

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Crayon Drawing:
How to Draw a Self-Portrait

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Charcoal Drawing:
How to Draw a Self-Portrait

Project Idea
How to Sketch People in Public: Urban Scribbles

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Drawing Marathon:
Human Anatomy

Project Idea
Design a Bicycle for Dogs: Pen & Marker Illustrations

Painting 

Tutorial
Watercolor Painting &
Brush Pen in Utah

upcoming

Tutorial
Introduction to Gouache Painting

Tutorial
Introduction to Oil Painting

Tutorial
Mixed Media Acrylic Painting

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Acrylic Painting Techniques: White on White

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NYT Crossword Puzzle: Artist Books with Gouache 

Illustration  

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Ink Drawing Techniques:
Road Kill Illustrations

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Rapidograph Pen & Ink Wash Drawing: Historical Illustrations

Tutorial
How to Draw a Cartoon of Yourself with a Felt Tip Pen

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Creature Design with Ballpoint Pen, Colored Pencils, & Watercolor

Tutorial
Character Design with Ink & Photoshop

Tutorial
How to Draw an Imaginary Environment with Ballpoint Pen & Watercolor

upcoming

Project Idea
Creature Creation Illustrations

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NYT Cooking: Recipe Illustrations

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Collaborative Comics: Comics Jam

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How to Draw a Comic Strip: Birthday Parties

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Ink Wash Drawings: Modern Myth Illustrations

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NYT Metropolitan Diary: Pen & Ink Illustrations

3D  

Tutorial
How to Sculpt a Portrait with Air Dry Clay

Tutorial
Meandering & Lotus Fold
Artist Books

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How to Sculpt a Figure with Air Dry Clay

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Coptic Stitch Bookbinding: Handmade Artist Books

Tutorial
How to Carve a Balsa Wood Sculpture

Tutorial
Introduction to Copper Tooling Techniques

Tutorial
Chipboard Personality Sculptures

Project Idea
How to Construct a Foam Board Staircase Sculpture

Film 

Project Idea
Film Interview: Tell Me a Story

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Produce a Short Film: Portrait of a Place

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How to Create Video in Photoshop: Cinemagraphs

Digital Media 

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Digital Sky Paintings

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Digital Painting: Texture Cubes

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NYT Editorial Illustrations:
Traditional Media to Digital Media

Tutorial
Digital Painting:
Brainstorming an Illustration

Animation  

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Animation Transformations

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How to Animate a Person: Pixilation

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NYT Social Q’s: Gif Animations

Tutorial
Introduction to Stop Motion Animation with Air Dry Clay

Tutorial
Easy Animation with Paint Markers on an Eggplant

Tutorial
How to Animate a Charcoal Drawing

Printmaking 

Tutorial
Linoleum Printmaking: Editorial Illustration

Tutorial
Gelli Plate Printmaking: Monochromatic Monotypes

Tutorial
How to Carve Custom Rubber Stamps

Project Idea
NYT Travel Postmarks: Carving Rubber Stamps

Collage 

Project Idea
Mixed Media Collages: Illustrating Your Fears

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Painted Paper Collage

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NYT Obituaries:
Mixed Media Collages

Project Idea
NYT Paper Trail:
Traditional & Digital Collages

Tutorial
Mixed Media Collage & Drawing: Visual Journaling

Student Responses

Charcoal Self-Portrait:
Nikoletta T

Charcoal Self-Portrait Drawing
Donna Bar-Peled

Crayon Self-Portrait Drawing
Sole Afra Martines

Crayon Self-Portrait Drawing
Mick Hart

Still Life Crayon Drawing
Mick Hart

Still Life Crayon Drawing
Hanna Bordewijk

Still Life Crayon Drawing:
Emma Heyes

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