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Try it! Tutorials: Hands-on Learning

Drawing, Collage, Altered Books, and More

Welcome to Creativity Portal's Try it! Tutorials. The goal of these tutorials is to break a basic art or craft technique down into simple steps with visuals to help spark your creativity and lead you off into your own artistic direction. Use these ideas for your own projects or to supplement your creative experiments.


Drawing Tutorials

Free Cartoony Drawing Tutorial Lessons
By Chris Dunmire
If you're new to the world of drawing, using a simple cartoon-style approach of rendering is one way to teach yourself how to draw. These fun drawing lessons focus on using line, shape, and other easy techniques to understand object structure and proportion.

Whimsical Drawing Lessons for Kids and Adults
By Joy Sikorski
Author of How to Draw a Cup of Coffee, Squeaky Chalk, and several other how to drawing books, explore Joy's whimsical drawing lessons and unique sense of creativity.


Collage and Assemblage Tutorials

Collage Fundamentals by Creativity Portal

A primer for beginner collage artists. Demonstrates magazine collage, assemblage, and mixed media collage. Also features background and texture ideas, book cover collage, and gallery of collage art.

Part 1: Simple Magazine Collage
Here's a great place to begin experimenting with collage art. Arrange torn or cut papers from magazines into a nifty design.

Part 2: Assemblage Collage
Take your magazine collage a step further by adding found 3D objects to create an assemblage.

Part 3: Mixed Media Collage
Add paint or any other medium (charcoal, markers, pastels) to your collage and the result is a mixed media project.

Part 4: Book Cover Collage
Examples of book cover collage, a stepping stone into the world of altered books.

Part 5: Experimental Textures
By using a variety of materials and techniques, you can discover "happy accidents" in texture design that adds to the appeal of your collage.

Part 6: Collage Combinations
Several more examples of background texture with magazine collage and other found elements to produce interesting collage art.

Advanced Collage Techniques

Collage Cubies by Chris Dunmire

How to Create Innovative Collage Cubies
By Chris Dunmire
A step-by-step tutorial demonstrating how to transform ordinary collage art into extraordinary 3D Collage Cubie sculptures. Includes a free downloadable box/cube template to accompany the project.

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Origami Swing Set Project
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