Archive for August, 2009
Over the past few years the internet has made its presence felt almost in all areas. It has widely captured the attention of all music and movie lovers from all across the world and allowed them watch their favorite music videos or celebrity video clips online. The growth in online music videos and songs has wrecked the barrier of language, society and country.
Today with the spread of Internet global accessing, watching celebrity video clips have become very popular online. With new websites bouncing up focusing entirely on offering free video clip to users, these days there are millions of online clips available online. Besides this, many established and media sites or news sites are adding celebrity video content to their websites. While most of this content is non-exclusive and available on competing sites, some websites produce all their own videos and certainly do not rely on the work of outside amateurs.
In recent years, the glamour and glitz in film and music industry have made everyone of us crazy. Many of us secretly or openly wish to live a life like our favorite film or music stars and celebrities. Besides this, there are many of us who even seriously care about celebrities and just wait in the long queue to have a better glimpse of our favorite actor. Moreover, there are even some who also purchase magazines on weekly or monthly basis to gain information about celebrities, recent films and music reviews. But subscribing to theses magazines can be very costly option as one has to pay huge amount of money for these magazines. Acting as a better alternative, online music videos and celebrity clips are emerging as ideal options.
If you’re a determined pastel artist with some experience, isn’t it time you stepped up and produced a pastel artwork that’s truly great? There’s nothing wrong with ambition! Here are some tips on using pastels to create a masterpiece:
1. It all begins with a thumbnail
Thumbnail sketching is simply one of the best ways to begin a pastel masterpiece. And what is a thumbnail sketch? It’s a tiny sketch, on a separate piece of paper, of the main features of your composition. Thumbnail sketches are usually about one inch square or a little larger (say around the size of a credit card). You should vary the size depending on how big the full-size painting is going to be. You should spend no more than five minutes on your thumbnail sketch.
The big, big benefit of thumbnail sketches is that they force you to simplify something that might seem overwhelmingly complex into just its main components. Without any room for details, your brain won’t get sidetracked. This is invaluable, as it reveals the fundamental nature of what you’re trying to do, and you can carry this through into working on your main surface.
Note that you can (and should) also sketch out your composition on your main surface after you’ve completed your thumbnail sketch.
2. Shadows
Shadows and highlights are two key areas of any artwork, as they are the bookends of the tonal range. Of the two, it’s shadows that are the harder to get right, but as they give the impression of volume (’3-Dness’), they’re also the more important.
In a pastel painting, you’re likely to have shadowed sides of elements in your composition, and shadows cast by those elements as well. Mark these areas when you’re sketching out your composition, and delineate the two.