Toilet Paper Tube Craft #3

 I wasn't sure what to call the craft, but, it is basically another way to wrap small presents or prizes for a game. Your supplies: one toilet paper tube, present/small item(s), tape, and a piece of paper or wrapping paper.

 Flip your paper over so that the side you want to be showing is not facing you.

Then, put the tube at the top of your paper, as center as you can get it.

Then roll it up.

It should look like this.

 Then tape it closed.

 Twist or tie up one of the ends.

 Then insert the small item(s).

Lastly, tie or twist off the other end.

Passion Fruit Drawing

So, taking a break from making crafts. I decided to post a picture of one of my more recent pictures. This is the first of my fruit pictures (I was going to make a few more). As the picture shows, I tried (not sure how well I did) to do some shading and lighting. Just in case you are not familiar to shading and lighting, I will try to explain. Shading is simple, just use your pencil to darken different parts of the picture (works best if you are holding the pencil so that the end of the pencil is flat on your drawing. I'll try to add pictures some time to better explain). As for the lighting. I held my pencil the same way I do when shading, and slowly put less pressure on it. Resulting in a lighter spot on the fruit.

Toilet Paper Tube Napkin Rings

 You start out with a toilet paper tube.

And unless you want a really long napkin ring, cut the tube in half (they don't have to be perfectly even).

(optional) Then cut out a strip of paper that is the same height as the half tube and can go all the way around.

 Now glue it onto the tube.

 As you can see, mine were not the same size.

Then decorate. You could draw on it, cut out slots, or anything you like.

Paper Towel Tube, Ball Gun

 For people who save up toilet paper tubes and paper towel tubes to make projects out of, these next few posts will be just what you need. For the first project, I will make a paper towel tube gun that shoots balls (make sure that the ball can easily go through a paper towel tube).

 Start by punching a hole through the paper towel tube (there should be one on each side).

 Then cut a nice long rubber band so it looks like a string.

 Put both ends through your holes and tie them together on the outside (don't cover up the open ends).

 Then cut a toilet paper tube in half vertically.

 (like this).

Then cut that in half (vertically).

 Glue one of the pieces into the open end that doesn't have the rubber band (this gives the ball more tension on the rubber band).

 (optional) while it is drying, you can tie a string to the rubber band so the rubber band doesn't get stuck in the middle of the tube every time.

 (like this). Then you will put the ball in the half of toilet paper tube and stretch the rubber band on it. Then, let go. (If the ball gets stuck in the tube, try to shorten the paper towel tube).

Thicker and Darker Lines

When you look at this picture, what stands out the most? To most people, it is probably the vines. It could be that, they are the biggest or have more components. But another thing that makes it stand out, are the dark and thick lines. The bush also has dark lines, but they are not very thick. The grass, which doesn't stand out very much at all, has neither dark or thick lines.

Scribble Drawings

 You might have made scribble drawings before. But if you haven't it is a good way to use up spare time. You start out, by simply making scribbles all over your paper.

 Then you look through your scribbles for an outline (mine is a rabbit).

Then you erase the scribbles inside the outline (you don't have to if you don't want to).

 Then you add basic features, like eyes, a nose, and a tail (if you are making an animal).

Then you can add other features, such as legs.

 Then you can add markings (optional).

 Then color in your outline (if you leave the scribbles inside the outline, you can color it in like how I will do the background).

 You start off by coloring in a few of the open areas.

 Then some more with a different color or different shade of the same color.

 Then you keep on filling in the holes.

 

Until you are done.

Clay Hedgehog Pencil Holder

 I made this a few months ago (2-3). As you can plainly see, it has lots of cracks in it. That is because it blew up in the kiln and I glued it back together. To make a hedgehog pencil holder, you start out with an oval of clay for the body (you could use polymer clay if you had enough of it). Then you make four feet (attach very well so they don't fall off). Then you make the head out of a stretched oval. After that, you make the eyes, nose, and ears. After you attach everything securely you make the pencil holes and it you are not using polymer clay, you dig out the center (so that it doesn't blow up). I will add a better tutorial if I make one out of polymer clay.

Running Horse Drawing

For this post, I will explain how I did some of the picture. Since I have already done a horse head tutorial, you should know how to make it. For the rest of the horse, I will try to get a tutorial sooner or later. For the sky, I used chalk pastels (I probably could have used something else, but I was seeing how they worked). To make the sunset, you have to add different layers of color. For example, red, orange, yellow, pink. Or if you wanted a more orange sunset, you could have just done different shades of orange. For the grass, I picked out multiple shades or green and some oranges. After making little lines of each color (yes this will take a while), I colored the entire grass area with lime green (to get rid of white spots).

How to Make an Animated Movie with Pictures

How to make a movie like this (below). And sorry about the outline of the hand getting thicker.

Drawing With Effects

 If you can't decide what to draw, but you want to draw something. You might have made something like these before. They are easy to do and make good backgrounds for things like computer backgrounds or blog backgrounds. To make one, all you have to do is make a bunch of scribbles, and use your drawing programs effects (if you only have MS paint, you can always just do scribbles). The first picture that I made (to the left), could look like a tunnel with different layers.

 Not sure what this one looks like (maybe something with scales?)

And this one has more of a comic book look.

Shading

 Shading adds extra dimension to almost any picture. To see the difference, I have a picture of an alligator that I drew before and after shading.


This is my first one, I did a bit of shading, but not much.

This is my second picture. As you can see I did more shading (and my room was a bit darker when I took this picture.

Origami Inflatable Rabbit

Notebook Covers

Maybe you need a notebook, but the only one you have has an annoying cover. Instead of going and buying a new one, why not make it a new cover? It is easy and cheaper (it might be best to make the paper the size of the front of the notebook before drawing, since it might not fit right). You can also make a back for it (I'm working on it now). You could also make a bunch of smaller pictures and glue them all too the front instead.

Wolf Picture

Right now, I am working on two pictures for an art contest at the airport I go to (I can only enter one picture, but I am making two to decide between). My first picture is of a wolf (almost done) and I will also be making an alligator. If you have any ideas for what colors to use for my wolf picture background, let me know.