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December 5th 2010
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“Emperor” I Curtis has been playing piano for over 30 years, and teaching students of every age for the past 13 years. She is the co-founder of “The Humble School of Arts and Music in Boston....

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    Drawing 101

    Posted on: December 28th, 2010 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Andrew Loomis make pen­cils fun!

    I was look­ing through my draw­ing books ear­lier this week, and I came across a really old book that was handed down to me by a rel­a­tive. I remem­ber when I was in school I thought it was a great resource, so I started look­ing through it again. It’s called Fig­ure Draw­ing for All It’s […]

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    Digital Inking 101

    Posted on: December 28th, 2010 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Dig­i­tal Arts Tutorials

    Dig­i­tal Art Tuto­ri­als was cre­ated with the goal of bring­ing industry-proven, pro­fes­sional dig­i­tal art tech­niques to the masses.  Many of our art tuto­ri­als are nar­rated by the very peo­ple who devel­oped, or piv­otal in the devel­op­ment of, the var­i­ous work­flows and dig­i­tal art tech­niques that have become indus­try standards.

    Pho­to­shop tuto­ri­als include the fields of the clas­si­cal (dig­i­tal paint­ing, dig­i­tal ink­ing, and even the hyper-popular comic col­or­ing), to pow­er­ful 3D tuto­ri­als (Poser, SketchUp, ZBrush, and more!), Dig­i­tal Art Tuto­ri­als pro­vides straight­for­ward instruc­tion and price­less inspi­ra­tion.  Our instruc­tors take great pride cre­at­ing edu­ca­tional tools that are both afford­able and acces­si­ble to ama­teur hob­by­ists, stu­dents and sea­soned pro­fes­sion­als alike.  We’re so con­vinced you will love our prod­ucts, we offer sev­eral free start-to-finish Pho­to­shop tuto­ri­als, and pre­views of all our art tuto­ri­als. See more here

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    Paint with a wacom tablet

    Posted on: December 24th, 2010 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Sam Rodriguez make dig­i­tal paint­ing look easy

    At first paint­ing on a wacom tablet seemed for­eign to me. I was not a painter and I could cer­tainly not make my dig­i­tal art work look like an oil pain­ing. This paint­ing was done using a wacom tablet pho­to­shop. As you can see for Sam Rodriguez he makes it look easy.

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    Bunshen: Draw Yours Today!

    Posted on: December 21st, 2010 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Hand let­ter­ing is one of the ways as artist we can really show our skill and give a piece a very hand done look. We know when some­thing is hand made and when it is done using tra­di­tional type­faces. We see here in this sketch that hand made typog­ra­phy can be incor­po­rated into a poster design or sim­ply a way to cre­ate an awe­some sig­na­ture.  This demo was cre­ated a few years ago by Shogun G. Cur­tis. He was able to show a for­mula to make a block font here bro­ken up into a grid, and also how to lay­out let­ters in advance and make them fit into the work­space avail­able. This image is avail­able for you

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