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Contest- The Balding Emo

For those of you who dont know.....emo's are the dudes known for their melancholy dress code, morbid body language, sad facial expressions and their taste in music.....but most of all, emo's are famous for their super floppy, vision impairing hair! Oh look! Heres a fine specimen!....This leads us to a question that perplexes the universe.....Is an EMO still an EMO if he loses his hair? I want to hear your opinion......Post your answers to this question as a text comment or a video response ...
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How to Draw Kobe Bryant: Step by Step (YOUDRAW by Merrill Kazanjian)

Link- merrillk.com Today, YOU are going to draw Kobe Bryant. It doesn't matter if you have prior art training or not. This video will break the process down in to simple steps so that anyone can do it. Grab a pencil and paper and let me show you what I mean. Remember to pause the video when you need to. Here we go. Step 1: Draw an oval shape for Kobe's head. Notice that the bottom of the oval looks like an upside down trapezoid while the top of the oval shape is rounded. Step 2: Make four ...
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Santa Claus Goes to Jail: Holiday Art Work by Merrill Kazanjian

Lets face it. Santa was asking for it........ The man: 1.) "Breaks and enters" illegally over a billion times each year........ on Jesus' birth day. 2.) Depends on exploitative labor of people under three feet tall. 3.) Could be the cause of the Polar ice caps melting. 4.) Flies without a license and at his own leisure.....while the rest of us get frisked and go through metal detectors before flying. Could the north pole be harboring terrorists? Anyway.....Its the holiday season....so ...
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MASTER- Drawing the Female Nose (How to Draw Step by Step instruction)

sites.google.com Today YOU are going to draw the female nose. Never drawn before? Thats OK. I will try to make it easy for you! ....Here we go. ......Drawing is much easier when we break things down in to shapes. So lets do that with the female nose. Notice that there are two trapezoids and an oval. These are our primary shapes with the nose..... Draw them on your paper now; and don't forget to put in the nostrils.......... Next, I will show you how to shade the nose. Don't worry, its going ...
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MASTER: Drawing the Male Nose (How to Draw the Nose Step by Step- Nostrils, Bridge, Orbit)

Link- sites.google.com Thank you for picking my nose video....UMMM....Yeah lets start over....Today I am going to teach you how to draw the male nose. Drawing is much easier when we break things down in to shapes. So lets do that with the nose. Notice that there are two trapezoids and an oval. These are our primary shapes with the nose. So grab a piece of paper and draw them now. Don't forget to put in the nostrils. Now, I will show you how to shade the nose. Don't worry, its going to be ...
NBA Morph- Lebron James + Kobe Bryant + Dwayne Wade + Chris Paul

To celebrate the start of the 2009-2010 NBA season, I merged the faces of four of the nba's biggest stars ( lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat and Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets). I used both Photoshop CS3 and Paint Shop Pro 9 to make this "artmorph". I basically made digital cut outs from Creative Commons (CC) Photos. I used the blending tool a bit, the digital scissor (scalpel), I also used a very helpful light/dark tool ...
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Chiclets Bubble Gum Sculpture (Pop Art?)- Stop Motion Animation

Really random??? YES! I was curious if I could turn chicklets gum from a stop motion object into a sculptural object. My last video was a tutorial on traditional painting....This one was as far from traditional painting as you could get. But I learned a lot doing it. For instance, you can layer gum like you layer paint and interestingly enough, gum gives an artist a medium that 1.) dries and solidifies 2.) can be used translucently or applied opaque (different thicknesses) 3.) can be layered ...
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Painting Tips- Glazing: Finishing a Painting with Transparent Oil Paint

What is Glazing? The technical answer is 1.) multiple thin layers of transparent oil paint (applied at the end of a painting)....but what I want YOU to remember is 2.) Glazing is pure magic 3.) Knowing how to glaze will take your painting abilities to the next level. 1.) Why glazing is an important painting strategy 2.) (We will touch a little bit on) The science of refracted light 3.) Which paints to use. (How can you tell if a paint is a glazing color?) 4.) Which brushes to use for glazing ...
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