Sarah Chen•
Mastering Clay Sculpting: A Journey from Basics to Brilliance
A complete beginner's guide to clay sculpting: choosing the right clay, essential tools, armatures, texture techniques, and the mistakes worth avoiding.
Art Technique
Art Technique
Explore 21 articles in Art Technique from the Artmoments collective.
Sarah Chen•
Painting with Fine Tip Paint Markers
Fine tip paint markers trade a brush's unpredictability for precise, controlled linework, shown here across a barn, mountains, and a portrait.
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Sarah Chen•
Some Common Questions About Painting
Answers to painting's most common beginner questions, plus a tour of the signature styles of Van Gogh, Monet, Dali, Kahlo, Picasso, Rembrandt, and Matisse.
Art Technique
Marcus Rivera•
How to Draw with Your Toes
Why limit creativity to your hands? A playful poem and a handful of tips for trying the strange, surprisingly fun art of toe drawing.
Art Technique
Mila Brushwood•
How to Paint with Crayons
Crayons aren't just for kids: a step-by-step guide to blending wax crayons with watercolor for surprisingly rich, colorful paintings.
Art Technique
Marcus Rivera•
Color Theory Explained
A primer on color theory covering how red, yellow, and blue combine into every other color on the wheel, plus the drama of complementary pairs.
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Sarah Chen•
The Rule of Thirds in Photography and Design
A practical breakdown of the rule of thirds—how the classic composition grid balances a frame, and when it's worth breaking for a more dynamic shot.
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Sarah Chen•
Arts and Crafts - Simple Tips for Straightforward Projects
Straightforward, budget-friendly arts and crafts tips—repurposing toilet paper rolls, organizing supplies—for anyone starting a project at the table.
Art Technique
Sarah Chen•
Tips to Improve Your Arts and Crafts Projects
Practical arts and crafts advice—from organizing supplies to picking age-appropriate projects—for anyone looking to actually finish what they start.
Art Technique
Yuki Tanaka•
Learning About Arts and Crafts
From storing ribbon on a paper towel holder to cleaning cloudy mosaic grout, practical tips for anyone serious about arts and crafts.
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Yuki Tanaka•
How to Draw Anime the Easy Way
A beginner-friendly walkthrough for drawing anime, covering finding your style, tracing for practice, drafting, and step-by-step techniques for anime eyes.
Art Technique
Mila Brushwood•
Better Screenshots
Tired of ugly screenshots cluttering your slide decks? A roundup of tips and tutorials for capturing, cropping, and polishing cleaner ones.
Art Technique
Mila Brushwood•
Making a Cartoon Girl - Video Art Technique
This tutorial walks through drawing a cartoon girl in Corel Draw, the female counterpart to an earlier vector tutorial on a cartoon boy.
Art Technique
Mila Brushwood•
Nail Art/Marble Technique
Two video tutorials in one: applying the marble technique in nail art, followed by a look at achieving a soft watercolor effect on nails.
Art Technique
Marcus Rivera•
How to Make Shaving Cream Prints - Abstract Technique
Shaving cream and a few drops of food coloring swirl into marbled abstract prints in this quick, surprisingly easy household technique.
Art Technique
Sarah Chen•
Freestyle Art : "Caught in a Hustle"
Freestyle art rejects the rulebook entirely—spontaneous, instinct-led mark-making with close ties to abstract expressionism's emotional freedom.
Art Technique
Marcus Rivera•
Mixed Media Technique - Charcoal and India Ink
A time-lapse video pairs charcoal and India ink in a striking mixed-media technique, freestyle work shared here from the artists at budeni.com.
Art Technique
Mila Brushwood•
Hyperrealistic Art from Marcello Barenghi
Italian artist Marcello Barenghi draws astonishingly hyperrealistic images with pencils, markers, and an airbrush, no Photoshop involved.
Art Technique
Marcus Rivera•
Original Abstract Contemporary Modern Art Painting Technique by Igor Turovskiy
Igor Turovskiy demonstrates his original abstract painting technique on video, followed by a small gallery of his contemporary work.
Art Technique
Mila Brushwood•
Creating Organic Backgrounds with Saran Wrap
Wet paint and ordinary plastic wrap combine in this quick video technique for texturing organic, mottled backgrounds behind your paintings and illustrations.
Art Technique
Mila Brushwood•
Trick Crocodile
A clever anamorphic illusion of a crocodile, drawn in pencil and marker, with the trick only revealed once the video reaches its final frame.
Art Technique