Whitney Houston: Some artistic Tributes.

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. The shine of her talent is beautifully reflected through a huge list of awards she gained in her whole career. Her awards include two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards in her lifetime. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. But alas, On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, of causes not immediately known.(source Wikipedia)

Today in this post I'm showcasing some beautiful artworks in memory of Whitney Houston. And pray she "Rest in Peace".

2002 repaint VIOLET DOLL channels WHITNEY HOUSTON by *noeling

5 sites to know top search keywords on web.

Getting traffic on your site is not an easy task. One need to think very logically about the different measures available for a single task before choosing the most prominent solution. One of the most important tool that are required for a high ranking of your website is "Keyword". A wisely chosen keyword can provide you with a very high traffic flow. And when there is a question for finding the topic for your post instead of keyword for your post, you need some extra help. In this post I'm going to enlist some most helpful sites on web that can help to find out what  topic is being searched the most and what is hip. So let's begin.

• Google Trends: With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.

• Google Zeitgeist: This take a look at the biggest events, news, and people who shaped the last year. This tool analyzed the billions of queries that were typed into Google over the year to give you a glimpse of last year.

• AOL Hot Searches: This shows top queries within a particular time span and particular categories.

• Lycos 50: This service shows top searches at Lycos each week.

• Yahoo Buzz Index:  It show the hot searches on yahoo search everyday.

I hope these sites will help you in finding a perfect topic for your post. Please Comment and Share. Enjoy.

The secret to life in two words.

The secret to life in two words shows the real and courageous way of controlling your life and stop resisting the bad circumstances. Even though it is challenging but the outcome is highly satisfying and life changing.


     

5 Mind-blowing Tree based Digital Paintings.

Digital world is very wide. There's merely any topic or subject remaining in world on which artists have not shown their talents. Out of those subjects there's one subject on which I'll showcase some awesome works of brilliant artists around world. The name of that topic is "Tree". Even though this is a very normal subject but when it meets to the imagination of an artist something amazing happens as shown below:

The Tree


             

Beauty on the wall: brilliant examples of wall graffiti.

When an idea hit their mind artists find their own ways to express their imagination. One of the great example of this is Street art and Graffiti. When some artists prefer to impress their art on paper,canvas or computer screen, few chose the walls of different buildings and architecture as their canvas and put their masterpiece in them. In today's post I'm showcasing some of the great graffiti around.

EndEndStudio by ~szc:

12 fantastic Assassin Creed artworks.

Currently one of the most admired and regarded game in industry is Assassin's Creed. Not only because of the super cool action and adventure packed game-play that is full of awesome fighting strategies and weapons but also the story line that raise it to a respected position. Today I'm going to show you some of the most fantastic Assassin's Creed inspired artworks that shows the real love of artists to this game.
Please don't forget to share.

Assassin's Creed Fanart by *kerembeyit:

Black Swan inspired, 11 awesome portraits and artworks.

I think most of us  know about Black Swan movie. But those who don't know:

From IMDB: "A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan."

This movie rate 8.2/10 on IMDB rating and that's very cool. But the cooler is when artists takes inspiration from this movie and create something more awesome, and that's why in today's post I'm going to show some of the very beautiful black swan portraits and artworks on web. Enjoy and don't forget to share.


Black Swan by ~iyesmoke:

sofia boutella hung up EX - StumbleUpon

sofia boutella hung up EX - StumbleUpon

15 most awesome anime/manga drawings.

I'm a huge fan of Anime and Manga. And today I want to share my love with you people too. Following are some really amazing and beautiful Anime manga drawings that I found on worlds largest online art community deviantart.com. So enjoy and share my love with your friends too.

CAT2 cover by *cellar-fcp:

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10 most beautiful objective Macro photographs.

According to wikipedia:

"Macrophotography is close-up photography, usually of very small subjects. Classically a macro-photograph is one in which the size of the subject on the negative is greater than life size. However in modern use it refers to a finished photograph of a subject at greater than life size."

According to me this is the most beautiful way of photography i've ever experienced. The artistic approach in this style of photography touches the max level. It present in front of us the details of the object captured in such a higher details that makes our jaws dropped to earth. Now without boring you anymore with my talks I present on your computer screens some of the best objective macro photographs ever taken.

wermadeofCARBON by =roseonthegrey

Infolinks & Linkbucks : Online money without ruining your blog.

Now a days there is a vast majority of sites and services that provide you money for keeping their ads in your blog or website. One most famous example is Google's Adsence service. With this service you can put Text based, Banners, Flyer, and other custom ads on your website or blog. But one most disturbing drawback of such ads is that they ruin the beauty of your blog totally. No matter how wisely you adjust them according to your website's environment they will keep messing with the design and theme of your blog or website. People who are more conscious about their site's look find it really hard to adjust with such ads. But internet as usual is full of opportunities and support. There are some sites that provide  a quite different type of ad based online money service. These sites utilizes the in-link text ads technique.

This technique actually create links of the ads and place them in your blog or website's actual text in such a way that it mingles with the basic layout. So whenever a user clicks on any of such links you get paid without ruining the look of your site.

11 most astonishing Dragon Artworks.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. -Cornelia Funke
Dragons always been a part of our stories, art and literature. In my childhood , the fantasy dragon created in my mind, in my heart is far beyond any other creature. The thrill, the excitement, the amazement dragon stories and folklore produce even today is undeniable. It used to make me visualize those creatures in my mind. Now With the change of time the ways of expression of thoughts and ideas changed too. Artists of today are now trying to relive their fantasy through their art, they are trying to blow life in those myths and stories through their art. And that's what this article going to show you today.

Steampunk Dragon by *kerembeyit : This artist pushed his imaginations to a fairly different dimensions . Awesome Dragon art on SteamPunk Theme.

Learn the Easiest way of Eye colorization with Gimp.

Well eye colorization is a well discussed and well known technique in photo-manipulation and photo- retouching. One can make his artwork or manipulation a way more fantastic and catching with this method. Out of a huge number of tutorials available for eye-colorization some are for beginners some are for pros, but the technique I'm going to explain in this tutorial  is suitable for all ranges of readers and very easy to follow too. So let's get started with out tutorial.
First a look on the results we are going to achieve through this method:

10 Most awesome Tech Brushes for Gimp and Photoshop.

Want to create a futuristic movie poster or a sci-fi movie scene. Well than you'll need some cool sci-fi and tech brushes to accomplish this task. Today I'm going to enlist some of the best tech and sci-fi brushes available. So explore the list below to acquire the brush of your choice.

Z-Design Tech Brushes Set-5: These brushes are so awesome. According to one critic review " This tech / interface brush set is what I would call the best tech brush set on the entire internet. The set brings forth both inspiration and endless tech/sci-fi uses.". Download

Create awesome typography portrait in just 5 steps with Gimp.

Now a days there's a boom in artistic, sophisticated and outstanding portraits and profile pictures. Every one is showing of his artistic talent in their portraits. But as a beginner it is kind of hard task to create and establish your own style so early. But this does not mean that you can not stand shoulder by shoulder with those people. Actually with a little inspiration+imagination you can create something heavy to ignore even  by the great artists. But to do this first you need to get your basics rock solid so that you can have a firm base when you move further. So in today's tutorial I'm going to introduce you with a very basic but important technique to create typographic portrait or other artworks. You can learn more about typography HERE.

So let's get started with this tutorial but first a look at the result that we are going to achieve with this process.

Easiest way to create Instant Sketch with Gimp.

Even though there's a load of ways to create sketches in Gimp but the plugin that i'm going to discuss with you is special cause it not just provide you with the most realistic result but it is easiest to use too.
This plugin is provided by Fx-foundry plugin set which you can download with the help of This Tutorial.
Now let's check out this plugin...

Resources:
Gimp 2.6 or better with Fx-Foundry installed. Check out THIS tutorial to learn the method to install the Fx-Foundry and other plugins in Gimp.
An image you want to convert to sketch.

Step 1: Load your image in Gimp.

Create realistic stickers out of any cutout images with Gimp.

Last night when I was shorting out my childhood memory box I found a bag of our(me and my younger brother) collection of anime stickers, tattoos, trump cards, and other stuff. From there I got this idea for creating a tutorial on Stickers. I don't know whether you will be able to stick them on your Fridge or Room wall but for your desktop, blog or website they can be a beautiful eye-candy. As it is a beginner level tutorial you don't need to have a great knowledge of Gimp functionality just basic computer handling knowledge and you are good to go. For learning there's a lot of things like Path Selection, Stroke Path, Grow Selection,   So let's get started with our tutorial....

Some Examples of the results we can achieve...

Easiest way to create realistic water drops in Gimp.

I can't believe that this technique was lying just under my nose and I was ignoring it for so long. Actually last night when I was trying to find out some new technique for my new tutorial I accidentally came across this plugin of Gimp Fx-Foundry which is basically related to Logo making but can be used some other places also as I know now. Name of this plugin is Liquid-Water Effect which falls under the Alpha to Logo category of Gimp Fx-Foundry. I won't talk too much about the history of this effect as believe on action that words but you can still check it out HERE. and download it from HERE.

So I think we should start with the tutorial, but first take look on the result we are about to achieve today...