Try it! Tutorials: Hands-on Learning
Drawing, Collage, Altered Books, and More
Welcome to Creativity Portal's Try it! Tutorials. The goal of these tutorials
is to break a basic art or craft technique down into simple steps with visuals
to help spark your creativity and lead you off into your own artistic direction.
Use these ideas for your own projects or to supplement your creative experiments.
Drawing Tutorials
Free Cartoony
Drawing Tutorial Lessons
By Chris Dunmire
If you're new to the world of drawing, using a simple cartoon-style approach
of rendering is one way to teach yourself how to draw. These fun drawing lessons
focus on using line, shape, and other easy techniques to understand object structure
and proportion.
Whimsical
Drawing
Lessons for Kids and Adults
By Joy Sikorski
Author of How to Draw a Cup of Coffee, Squeaky Chalk, and several
other how to drawing books, explore Joy's whimsical drawing lessons and unique
sense of creativity.
Collage
and Assemblage Tutorials Collage Fundamentals by Creativity Portal
A primer for beginner collage artists.
Demonstrates magazine collage, assemblage, and mixed media collage. Also
features background
and
texture ideas,
book cover
collage, and gallery of collage art.
Part 1: Simple Magazine Collage
Here's a great place to begin experimenting with collage art. Arrange torn
or cut papers from magazines into a nifty design.
Part 2: Assemblage Collage
Take your magazine collage a step further by adding found 3D objects to create
an assemblage.
Part 3: Mixed Media Collage
Add paint or any other medium (charcoal, markers, pastels) to your collage
and the result is a mixed media project.
Part 4: Book Cover Collage
Examples of book cover collage, a stepping stone into the world of altered
books.
Part 5: Experimental Textures
By using a variety of materials and techniques, you can discover "happy
accidents" in texture design that adds to the appeal of your collage.
Part 6: Collage Combinations
Several more examples of background texture with magazine collage and other
found elements to produce interesting collage art.
Advanced Collage Techniques
How to Create Innovative
Collage Cubies
By Chris Dunmire
A step-by-step tutorial demonstrating how to transform ordinary
collage art into extraordinary 3D Collage Cubie sculptures. Includes
a free downloadable box/cube template to accompany the project.
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