The Secret to Painting Pen & Ink Artwork Digitally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9g9zMO5BQc

How do you digitally paint traditional pen and ink artwork?

That’s what No Chipmunks sort of asked me after last week’s video about scanning artwork for picture books – https://youtu.be/yVVCHv62QsM

The secret is to clean up your scan, as I showed last week, and then convert the artwork layer to Multiply. Then the black stays black and the white becomes magically transparent.

You can also use layers with opacity set right down to add shade over the top in a non destructive way.

Have fun! Any other problems let me know

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How to Draw a Magnet Real Easy – spoken instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnqJlSo9ZVc

Learn to draw a Magnet real easy with this easy to follow, spoken tutorial video. Find all the hundred’s of DrawStuffRealEasy drawing videos on one page by clicking here.

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How Pi was discovered!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFf9d7U2tVA

I’m a visual thinker. I need to see to be able to understand.

Mathematics is so based on faith. Someone says, “This axiom is true, so everything that follows is true. All you have to do is accept that and have faith.”

Well, that never worked for me growing up. I tried to work out some geometry in ways that satisfied me and this is how I understand Pi.

You may think it’s a crazy way of understanding it, but for many people this is a revelation.

We do not all think the same way or see the world in the same way.