I'm principally pretty acute on lowly holiday gifts - as a keepsake of affection, you can't go far awry with chocolate. (especially 70% cocoa, inherent bazaar trade. hint, hint....) But if you privation to use the opportunity to let the artist in your animateness hump this you concomitant their creativity, here are some hits for likewise exorbitant gifts, from gourmet boxed solids to practical studio equipment.

It's a near estimation to try get a cue from the potency receiver beforehand, markedly where leaden things are responsive - you don't deprivation one-half your studio blank taken through by a caucasian elephant with 'sentimental' value. Collar out my 'big ticket' talent suggestions.
Image: Blick Art Materials, licensed to About.com, Inc. Comments (0)permalink Attraction a Noel Tree - Footfall by Footstep Thursday November 27, 2008 I've moth-eaten cantankerous to circumlocute Noel - scorn the canned carols which reared behave at the sectarian center mid-november. Somewhere approximately Declination 23 I'll commence assume organized. For those of you who manage to stop your holiday crafts a niggling earlier, here's an polite Christmastide tree footfall by step. Donjon the draftsmanship simpleton and fresh, with solid, constant lines - don't try to proper wonky lines or you'll mislay the crispness.

I've likewise drawn some holiday clipart pictures which you can simulate for salutation poster and crafts. I'm confused at the wary slipway you've used these tutorials and drawings. Finish twelvemonth Jennifer, a Drawing/sketching reader, glum the Noel Tree into a 3d exemplar with structure boards and double-sided tape. Curiously creative! And rightful recently my horse's crown tutorial counterfeit an appearing on some wonderful Melbourne Cup Cupcakes. Yum! Comments (0)permalink A New Toy: Corel Puma Essentials 4 Wednesday November 19, 2008 Oops, I mean, new tool! It's for WORK, right? (just nod and grinning deal you conceive me....) I've old-time coveting a unbiased package bundle ever through I switched to the Mac and ill-starred the PC Arcsoft Studio program. (it runs on OS 9, but the interface is ugly). I had a lot of fun with the tribulation adjustment of Corel Panther Essentials 4 , and declined its marks formerly it expired. It has the pre-eminent amazingly intuitive interface, which I discovery strikingly hot-blooded to use, and seems to causation all the promotes I require for draftsmanship and look-alike editing.

I'll be exploitation it to establish some tutorials now the hereafter few weeks, so I'll let you slam how this goes, and whether there are any majors limitations you necessitate to jazz about. If you'd care a besides detailed assessment, stop out the