To save the avatar you want, just right click on the image and press ‘Save Image As…’, to save it directly on your computer.

Enjoy!

So, for the greenest day of all, and partially for my upcoming birthday (1 month away, close enough..), I decided to create a quick tutorial for drawing a clover leaf. This one is really simple, here it goes:

(I’m not so strong with the leaf parts name, but I think you’ll handle this even without the official names)

1. Draw the little branch that holds the leaf, and than draw 4 semi heart shapes that are coming out from the tip of thie little branch.

Notice that each leaf has a ‘spine’ line starting from it’s bottom and continuing along its middle line. The 4 heart shaped leafs make a square cross with their ‘spines’:

2. Add some nice colors – make sure that the inside (the base of each heart shaped leaf) is darker than the outside.

That’s it. Simple and quick :)

Well, I know, it’s not the best ‘how to draw’… You can’t really understand the shading and stuff, right? Well, to compensate on that, I promise to upload an owl tutorial soon, with some more steps.

P.S.

This reminded me of the Transformer Owl: (be patient, it stats to be interesting after 36 seconds)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCgbYnNAbSM

Another P.S.

P.S.

I tried to find the origin of this wonderful owl, and failed*. However, what I did find was another amazing tutorial, possibly created by the same artist:

* 29.12.10 -- Update -- the artist found me!! Hooray! His name is Steven Hill, and he is the talented creator of the ‘How to draw an owl’ meme. lovely!

You can find his work here: http://stevenhillgraphicdesign.tumblr.com/,

and also here -- I especially loved the posters: http://cargocollective.com/stevenhill/#555350/Merchandise-Designs

Thanks for the owl Steven! :)

This time, I chose to draw the tutorial manually, with the good old pen and paper method. I find it not only easier, but also a method that eventually provide better results (I don’t know about you, but that’s true for me).

After this tutorial you’ll be able to draw this lovely stilleto shoe:

So – How do you draw stilletto shoes?

Drawing shoes, in general, isn’t easy for me. You have to perfectly understand the proportions of the foot parts, and imagen how they fit inside the shoe.

To make things easier, we’ll use the ‘step by step’ method, basing our drawing on simple shapes:

1. Create a circle for the heel, a flat circle for the toes, and connect them with 2 line, as showed in the image on the left.

2. Then, add the high hill itself – somewhat of a narrow rectangle, starting at the right side of the heel base. The bottom part of it should be aligned with the ‘flat toes circle’ bottom side.

3. Now you have the basic shape of the shoe. Start creating the outlines of the shoe – the bottom part of the shoe usually covers the toes only, the the upper part of the shoe covers 3/4 of the heel. Obviously, it’s your shoe, and you can create your own shoe design. :)

4. Remove unnecessary lines from your drawing – the circles you used in the first steps.

And this is your stiletto shoe:

Now that it’s all back to normal, it was really nice to see the great traffic coming to HowToDrawA.net, without any new post. Thank you readers! It was really great to see that escalating traffic graph :)

So, enough with the talking – let’s start the drawing!

In this post I’ll show you how to draw a very very simple electric guitar drawing. I selected the guitar that Steve Vai is playing – Ibanez Jem505. My husband loves his music. I love the shape of his guitar.

I’m going to show how to draw Steve Vai’s electric guitar in the step by step method, based on the actual picture of the guitar. You can practice by placing a thin white paper over a guitar picture, and do the same as I will show in this tutorial. You can also print the exact guitar I’m using.

1. Start by drawing the main parts, which are the easiest as well – I look at the guitar and see just a rectangle (the guitar neck) and a ’roundy’ shaped guitar body. That’s why I started by going over these parts, whilte the body itself was divided to 2 circle-like parts:

2.  Once we’re done with the easy part, let’s go over the other significant parts of the guitar, which are slightly more difficult to draw.

• Go over the outlines, without getting into details. First focus on getting a shape which is close enough to the final image you’re trying to achieve, and then add the extra details.

3. Now we have the main outline of the guitar. Remove the guitar image – from this point and on it’s no longer Steve’s guitar, but your guitar, and you can do with it whatever you want! Add the final details – In this case I simply forgot to draw the sides of the guitar body when drawing the outline, so I just added it on this point. It turned out to be with a similar shape to the original one, but not exactly the same. That’s what ‘creativity’ is all about (well, it’s a great excuse fot a not-so-much-alike drawing…)

4. You can get into details as much as you’d like. I want my guitar simple, without too many details. I just added a few extra details, and painted it red. It’s different from the original, but I like it this way  :)

In the following few posts I’ll try to give some eye-drawing tips, which I hope will help you improve your eye drawing skills.

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Drawing a simple cartoon eye

1. Start with a simple round circle. The circle doesn’t have to be perfect, but the rounder – the better.

2. Eyelids – draw the upper and lower eyelids as  simple curves on the top and the bottom of the first circle. Notice that in the below example I don’t draw them on the exact outline of the circle – their middle part is inside the circle, but close to the outline.

• Why not around the circle? Just take a look at the mirror – you’ll immidietly see that the eyelids are covering the eyeball, but to keep it inside safely they are covering it top and bottom parts.

3.  Iris and pupil area – go over the circle lines which are between the eyelids. Erase the rest of the circle.

4. Pupil – draw a small circle inside the iris area (between the inside lines).

5. Fill our the pupil with color, leaving a small while circle for the light reflection inside the eye. The white circle should be drawn in the side from which the light is directed.

6. Refine the eyelids and add additional 2 lines at the sides of the eye, which will declare where the eyeball ends, and the ‘pink stuff’ inside the eye starts.

7. Eye color – color the entire Iris, except for the pupil of course, with a single color.

8. Extra touch – you can make the eye coloring look more authentic by simple adding light lines which appear to be coming from inside the pupil.

Basically, that’s it. One eye is complete! In the next post I’ll show how to easily draw the second eye, and also make it look similar to the first one. Something like this:

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If your eyes are more like ping pongs with a black spot…

First, don’t worry, you’re not alone. Eyes aren’t an easy thing to draw, and practice is the key. Don’t give up.

But – if you’re really hopeless, you can use some easy tricks to avoid showing the world your poor eye-drawing skills. Just wait for the last ‘How to draw an eye’ post, in which I’ll give some tips made especially for your kind…