Actually do try it! If you have any artistic talent at all, a Wacom Graphics Tablet and a layered art or retouching program like Photoshop can make you better quicker than drawing with pencil and paper.

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Over the course of eighteen years, Mark Story photographed people who had lived past the ripe old age of 100. The resulting portraits and profiles can be seen on his site. Beautiful.

(found via Neatorama)

Kaziah paints portraits of our fallen soldiers, free of charge for the families of the fallen.

Painter and cartoonist Dave Cooper has posted a bunch of photos to Flickr documenting his painting process.

This can be a nerve-wracking stage, but it’s usually pretty straightforward. i use an antique projector (that you can see in my “some of my favourite artnerd things” set) and a cheap brush pen. the image that’s in the projector isn’t the original pencil drawing but rather a smaller print-out. the final painting will be about 7′ wide! as you can see, i work on unstretched canvas stapled to the wall. it’s only once the painting is finished and photographed that i stretch it onto a custom made stretcher. Link (Via, Drawn!)

Painter and cartoonist Dave Cooper has posted a bunch of photos to Flickr documenting his painting process.

This can be a nerve-wracking stage, but it’s usually pretty straightforward. i use an antique projector (that you can see in my “some of my favourite artnerd things” set) and a cheap brush pen. the image that’s in the projector isn’t the original pencil drawing but rather a smaller print-out. the final painting will be about 7′ wide! as you can see, i work on unstretched canvas stapled to the wall. it’s only once the painting is finished and photographed that i stretch it onto a custom made stretcher. Link (Via, Drawn!)

Painter and cartoonist Dave Cooper has posted a bunch of photos to Flickr documenting his painting process.

This can be a nerve-wracking stage, but it’s usually pretty straightforward. i use an antique projector (that you can see in my “some of my favourite artnerd things” set) and a cheap brush pen. the image that’s in the projector isn’t the original pencil drawing but rather a smaller print-out. the final painting will be about 7′ wide! as you can see, i work on unstretched canvas stapled to the wall. it’s only once the painting is finished and photographed that i stretch it onto a custom made stretcher. Link (Via, Drawn!)

A brush with africa

By using the unusual medium of Tea and Dry Ochre pigment, East African born Simon Stevenson has managed to capture the colour, mood and shimmering beauty of this incredible continent.