We first got into the blogging world with our website blog “We Are not Freelancers“. The site is a combo of the “Ten Pixel Method” and hand drawn characters and letters.
A lot of people who we have met say they wish they could create something similar but will not because they can’t draw.
We say anyone can draw if you use a simple technique.
David gives you a quick lesson on how to create a hand drawn website using the ‘don’t lift the pencil‘ technique.
Hand drawn technique video tip
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Supporting Elements
There are also few more hand drawn elements within the footer and header design.
Author of this post: David Perel
David Perel is the founder of South African web design company 'OBOX-Design'. He is also a co-host of the Web 2.0 Show 'From the Couch' and designer/author of the blog 'We Are not Freelancers'. David enjoys giving his opinion on anything happening on the web and is often not shy of speaking his mind online. See all posts by: David Perel
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I Thank you for the blog post. It was a really good read.t.
This is the one blog which I visit from last two weeks and I really like this and it helps …
Easy to understand,I like it!
Its great to have everyone who loves art possible to go into any site and understand and learn new things about drawing and paintings, thank you for this post.
Great articles & Nice a site
I found your blog when I was searching on google, and it brought me right to what I was looking for. I’m going to add your rss feed to my Google Reader, I look forward to reading more of your thoughts
thank you for posting do you have feed here? I’d like to subscribe
Hi, i must say fantastic site you have, i stumbled across it in Yahoo. Does you get much traffic?
This is a wonderful idea. I am sure many people will find this useful. Singapore Photography
This is a wonderful idea. I am sure many people will find this useful. Singapore Photography
I don’t comment on blogs too often, but I like this post and theme – just wanted you to know that!
Thanks!
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I have numerous troubles with my web browser LYNX on your website. The chimpanzees are still in the page :-(.
the video loads like snail…possible for a download link?
The hand drawn style has been very popular lately, and rightfully so – it can look awesome. The real matter will be to see how it stands the test of time. Is this going to be a phase, or will this trend hold its own? Only time will tell…
Either way, nice post!
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Hand drawings are everywhere and they look great on websites. Using hand drawn design elements gives a website a unique look and personality. Nice list you have here!
Dunno why, but I have always imagined that hand drawing is something hard to do. Well, it doesnt look that way no more. Thanks for a nice tutorial ;]
@Zach – Great stuff. I hope you come up with something awesome!
@Srikanth – Glad you liked it!
@Nic – Pleasure ;)
Thank you so much! It’s great to see something simple and different.
Hi, I am a 3d artist.This tutorial on line drawing was really great,
a good start up to become an artist, it helped me to start drawing, I need a perspective drawing i hope i can get a video on this.
Thank u
How to download this video ?
I nice insight into another way of creating graphics for a web site. I am not a big fan of their type of drawing but, it does move away from what everyone else is doing. I’ll try to implement the technique into one of my future projects.
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Thanks for this! You’ve inspired me to dust off my Wacom and get to drawing. It makes line art a whole lot easier!
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