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The big-eyed paintings of Margaret Keane and an explanation of the true authorship of paintings once believed to have been made by her husband, Walter.

They say "The eyes are the window to the soul"

Linked to my Deviantart upload of the cave-thing I showed in class

You're right - Wal-Mart did royally screw it up. But - in that screwing up may have made it even more sinister than you had planned. Another thing - when I was looking at it in class - for some reason I was viewing it as the light being on the right side - whereas your intended orientation locates that light on top. Have you looked at it in different orientations? If so - how do those orientations affect your judgment or interpretation of the work?

A collection of images of Messerschmidt's sculptures including many of his grotesque, grimacing heads.

Rae's Deviantart page... full of good things, a few great things, and a lot of things that make me slam my head against the wall.

For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Adobe Illustrator tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.\n\nDue to this phenomenally vast amount of vector packs, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artwork and to give it any look you want.\n\nSo in today's post, you'll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, vector packs, tips & tricks and .EPS downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community.d that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.\n\n

The city is a fantastic source of beauty and inspiration, with all the glitz and glamour glistening beneath the city lights. But there is another side of the city altogether, one rife with its own kind of allure. Across the tracks, away from the dazzle of downtown, lies a darker imagination, this one looking to grunge-ridden, dilapidated architecture for inspiration. There is a beauty that pervades this kind of urban decay and captured wonderfully through a photographer's well-trained eye. These industrial city scenes are wonderfully dark and offer a glimpse of the weathered face beneath the city facade.

If you are designing something - laying out a page and you are wondering how the page would look with text but you don't want to plug in the contents of your secret diary - this is a way to get that text...

Sketch for a miniature painting of a charging elephant. Shows planning and stages, importance of sketching.

Analytical student drawiing

A student drawing where flatness is emphasized. Design, organization is of primary concern.

A student drawing that concentrates on design more than description. Shape, form is primary. Rhythm. Organization.

Example of an analytical drawing from a student. Note heavy use of line in place of shadow. Line is heavily worked - not singular or necessarily definitive. The shape is worked towards methodically and appears even appears transparent.

A very detailed and well illustrated step by step tutorial for using the pen tool in Illustrator.

A tutorial for the pen tool in Illustrator with a link to a practice file you can download.

A walk-through on InDesign master pages

bruce mau design

link to a PDF download of departmental newsletter