Pencil Drawing and Art Thread links

by Miran on December 30, 2010

Pencil and charcoal drawings

All about drawings

Drawings tutorials and rating

Drawing techniques

Art Print, Framed Art or Original Art at Great Prices

Art in America

Abstract Art

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Comics And Manga Thread Links

by Miran on December 30, 2010

Manga online store, catalogs, wallpapers

Free online manga

How to draw manga

Free manga stream

Marvel comics

DC comics

History of comics

Comics news and reviews

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History of Comic Books, Part 3

December 29, 2010

In 1933, “Detective Dan, Secret Op. 48″ was the first comic, sold on the newsstands, with original material in it. It was written by Norman Marsh and published by Humor Publishers Corp. It had a 3 color cardboard cover and was done in black and white. It was 36 pages long, sold for 10 cents [...]

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History of Comic Books, Part 2

December 29, 2010

The Platinum age started with a book that came out in 1897 titled “The Yellow Kid in McFadden’s Flats.” It was 196 pages long and in black and white. The cost was 50 cents and was published by G. W. Dillingham Company. It was actually part of a series Dillingham did on American authors. The [...]

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History of Comic Books, Part 1

December 28, 2010

Comic books. Arguably one of the largest industries in the world. To be able to store every comic ever written you would need a city the size of New York and even then I think you would run out of room. No question, comic books are here to stay. So when did this multi billion [...]

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Value of Comic Books

December 28, 2010

The value of a particular comic depends upon what series it is, the issue and edition of the comic, and the condition or grade of the comic. In this article I’ll discuss different approaches to appraising a comic book and the advantages and disadvantages of each, allowing you to judge which approach is best for [...]

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Basic Drawing Techniques

December 27, 2010

Drawing is a lot of fun, and my life would not be nearly as enjoyable as it is now if I didn’t know how to draw. Learning to draw is not as hard as some people make it out to be, or as your own experiences might have told you. The key is to start [...]

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Drawing Wildlife, Part 2

December 26, 2010

Baroque wildlife art, 1600 to 1730. This important artistic age, encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church and the aristocracy of the time, features such well-known great artists as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Poussin, and Vermeer. Paintings of this period often use lighting effects to increase the dramatic effect. Wildlife art of this period includes a [...]

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Drawing Wildlife, Part 1

December 26, 2010

Some of the earliest of all known art (pre-historic cave and rock art) features wildlife. However, it might be more properly regarded as art about food, rather than art about wildlife as such. Then for a lot of the rest of the history of art in the western world, art depicting wildlife was mostly absent, [...]

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Museum of Buddhist Art

December 25, 2010

The Museum of Buddhist Art in Bangkok is reputed to have the biggest collection of Buddha statues, sculptures and figurines based on Buddhist art work from kingdoms dating back to the 6th century AD. The exhibits reflect the cultural heritage of the various kingdoms in Thailand and neighboring kingdoms as well. Visitors to the Museum [...]

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