Have you ever heard about idrawgirls? I discovered this fantastic place some years ago, when I started learning more about digital painting and drawing. At that time I was looking for video tutorials and lessons to learn the basic of figure drawing and I accidentally found this site… what a surprise! I found tons of video tutorials about… everything!

But first let’s talk about the author, the artist who’s behind this project. His name is Xia Taptara, aka idrawgirls, a Concept/3D Artist living in Seattle, WA, United States. As he states in his website, he founded “idrawgirls” during 2007, to motivate himself to draw better, refine his skill, experiment and to be free to draw everything he wants.

Anatomy is one of the greater challenge for an artist. Understanding better how human and animal anatomy works require a lot of patience, time and practice.

There are a lot of theories and studies, lots of techniques you can learn to draw a human ody perfectly. Of course you don’t need to master all of these, but it’s important to learn them and use them to fix your own style. In this period I’m focusing a lot on human anatomy, because I truly need to improve on this side. And today I’ve found on Deviantart this amazing tutorial series concerning anatomy. This is a tutorial by BittersweetDisease and it is splitted in 7 parts. It sums up the most important bases and fundamentions of drawing human anatomy, in a really humorous way: it’s a pleasure to read it!

Below you can read about the various parts content, and you will find the links to the tutorials! Have fun!

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Wacom, the leader of digital tablet, announces a new product that will help artists to create art: Inkling. It is a special pen that you can use to sketch your drawings on paper; at the same time Inkling captures your sketch and makes it digital for you. So you can easily transfer your sketch on your computer and edit them in photoshop or other softwares as vector graphic. It’s great right?

Below, a demostration video of this fantastic pen!

Judith is another great masterpiece from Marta Dahlig. It receives the

Excellence Award in the last Exposè 7 book, by Ballistic Publishing. Now, CGSociety released her free tutorial about the making of this fantastic piece, along with a free 320 mb Video Tutorial of Marta working on it, from the beginning to the very end. It is a great opportunity of seeing how Marta works, even you can find her other video tutorials only in ImagineFX DVD.

She also upload the video on Youtube, so you can watch it below in this article.

Yesterday, browsing my DA Message Center, I discovered a new interesting deviation by Dan Luvisi, known as Adonhis. He’s a talented digital concept artist, who works in the video-game and comic books industry. If you take a look at his gallery, you can immediatly see the complexity and dynamism of his illustrations, the effects he achieves and the realism of his conceptual images!

Well, yesterday he decided to share with the Artists Community at DeviantArt his own Custom Brush Pack, so that everyone can try it! This can be a great occasion to learn something new from a great digital illustrator.

In this article you will find a link to the download, an image with the brushes preview and their description by Dan Luvisi.