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Category: Tools and Techniques

  • Feng Zhu

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    Feng Zhu creates concept art for feature films, games, theme park rides and toy designs. The Gallery contains images in a variety of styles and degrees of finish. Feng Zhu also teaches industrial design at Gnomon Workshop and Art Center College of Design in California. He and his studio have produced industrial design training DVDs…

  • Practical Painting

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    This is an unpretentious little how-to artists magazine created by an individual artist (identified only as “Denise”). The site features compact, informative articles on art technique and tool basics such as choosing canvas, colors and brushes. Her “What Paint Colors do I Need” article, for example, is a quick introduction to choosing a split-primary color…

  • William Whitaker

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    William Whitaker ia s contemporary American realist who paints mostly portraits and full length figures of women in a refined painterly technique. The paintings are sometimes accompanied by nice detail images. The galleries are somewhat awkwardly arranged but it’s worth clicking around. The Retrospective Galleries are kind of tucked away and they contain 50 works.…

  • Color Scheme Generator

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    Part of the WellStyled.com web design workshop, the functionality of this color scheme generator is primarily aimed at web designers, but this is fascinating and fun for anyone who likes to immerse themselves in color and color relationships. Click on the color wheel to choose a hue, choose a scheme (Contrast, Triad, Tetrad, etc) below…

  • The Drafting Pencil Museum

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    Attention art materials snobs and wooden pencil purists: if you like pencil drawing but you’ve never tried drawing with drafting pencil (commonly called a leadholder), you’re missing out. Not to be confused with a “mechanical pencil”, which dispenses a thin lead (.03 – .07mm) that doesn’t vary or require sharpening, a leadholder provides a beautiful,…

  • Ryan Church

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    Ryan Church is a Senior Art Director at ILM and was a Concept Design Supervisor for Star Wars Episode 2 and Episode 3. There are lots of eye-candy concept pieces for those movies on the site. As good as his professional concept art is (and it is very good indeed), many of my favorites here…