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How to Draw Elsa Frozen to Connect with My Daughter – ADAXI ARTS

https://youtu.be/2iRheHRCfHs When my daughter started to go to school, I spent less and less time with her. I feel we are not so close with each other like before. Today, I came up with an idea. I drew her favorite character Elsa, Frozen to get us closer with colored pencils. I did it! She gave me a big smile after she received it. Follow @adaxiarts to draw just a few minutes every day. And keep connecting with your kids.

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How to Draw A Gliding Butterfly with Colored Pencils – ADAXI ARTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnzdpy7v-rMToday, I try to draw a gliding butterfly for the first time with colored pencils to kill my afterwork time.​

1. Sketch the outline

2. Draw the patern on the wings

3. Create gradation from the thorax

4. Color the edge and draw the wing texture

5. The gliding butterfly is done!

Follow @adaxiarts to draw with simple strokes every day and get connected with people killing afterwork...
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How to Paint Layers with Markers – ADAXI Arts

When you paint with markers, the skills you need are not so difficult. The painting of markers feature transparency, so the effect of single layer and multiple layers are quite different.

Single Layer Painting

This painting consists of single-layer strokes and they overlap just a little part, so the color is thin and light. Draw it hard and quick, the strokes are very clear to see and you will use it to draw the ground or buildings.

Multiple Layers Painting

Draw strokes repeatedly in...
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How to Use Two Tips of Markers – ADAXI Arts

The head’s shape of the mark pen is different, so when use it, you can create different pen strokes with different skills.According to the needs of your work, choose the proper pen stoke skills of the two tips, you can be twice efficient than before. Rectangle StrokeWhile using the broad tip to draw, the head is parallel to the left edge of the paper and stick completely to the paper to create a rectangle stroke of tidy edge and even...

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How to Create Gradation Effect – ADAXI Arts

It’s a little bit difficult to create gradation effect with marker pens, which needs multiple pens of different colors. And how to choose the gradation hues is vital and requires a lot of knowledge and experience. Smooth gradation will greatly enhance your artwork, thus we need to practice more especially for art journey starters.Gradation of Same Hue Prepare 3 marker pens of same hue but different values. Here we choose blue. Draw the darkest, then the medium darkest, and the lightest...

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How to Use 0 Colorless Blender Artfully – ADAXI Arts

No. 0 mark pen has no color, whose use and effect are similar to using water in watercolor drawing, which could gradate a hue from dark to colorless. It’s also used in highlighting to create great painting effect. Prepare a No. 0 mark pen and another one of color. We’ll try light blue this time Draw some Parallelogram Strokes with light blue marker first Before it dries, repeatedly blend the edge from up to down with No. 0 mark pen. When it’s dry, it’s...

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