I should probably write another life journal, but you voted I feature things whenever I find something cool so I have to do this. First off, let me introduce my new journal CSS, created by `nokari and edited slightly to fit my taste. Isn't it beautiful? The CSS I'm using to feature stuff is written by `thespook and edited slightly to fit with my journal. Thank god for skilled and helpful seniors. Well, here comes the features:

The Antialiasing Tutorial

This is for pixel artists (which also includes emoticonists who wants to hand shade). It's an anti aliasing (AA) tutorial, but not like any other. I'm sure many of you know approximately how to apply manual anti aliasing, what shades to pick and where to place the pixels, but have you ever wondered why? Why does that particular shade look good in that particular corner?

I also included two examples of what this pixel artist can do with his skills.

Big Guide to Drawing the Body

I am aware that this tutorial is in over 10,000 deviants' favorites already, but it is a damn useful tutorial. It explains the anatomy of the human body, it helps you remember the proportions of the body parts, shows the differences between genders and ages, points out where our muscles are located... All in all, it's a wonderful resource for anyone who wants to draw realistic bodies (whether for comics or paintings doesn't matter). And if you like this one, make sure to check out her other tutorials about various animals' anatomy, or more in-depth about the human body.

Strangely enough she doesn't have a lot of impressive pictures of the human body in her gallery, mainly because it consists of comic pages and photography, so here's what I found. Pretty ladies.

Scribbly and Ink Tutorial

This tutorial does not teach you any important basics at all, it's just a suggestion of how you can draw backgrounds in a different way. I tried it years ago with colored pencils and I must say it was a very fun way to draw. It shows how you can experiment with mixing different colors together, and the result can be both creepy or playful depending on how you use it in your picture.

I also included the end result of the tutorial, and the now quite famous Biting Pear of Salamanca. With such a big gallery, you'll find lots of examples of her skills with colored pencils, and her creativity (imagination) is both cute and strange.

Glossy Button Tutorial

This tutorial is for the moderately skilled Photoshop user, the basics are skipped so if you're a beginner with Photoshop this might be too difficult for you. It teaches you how to use layer styles and effects to create a glossy button, something what will fit in with most modern websites. I haven't actually looked at the rest of the gallery (seeing as it's only tutorials and I prefer browsing art), but you can see the button I made from this tutorial below. If you try his other tutorials and find something nice, let me know? :)

Journal CSS by `nokari and `thespook