Arts Crafts Shack Blog

Well we have finally moved house and all our belonging are still packed away in boxes.

Luckily I do have my laptop so I can continue with my Blog.

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May 18, 2025

AI Drawings

Let's talk about AI and Images.

If you scroll to the bottom of the Easy Dog Drawing Tutorial, you will come across something I have been playing around with.

Now don't get me wrong, at the moment I'm not sure if AI is a good thing or not for us Artists, you see a lot of images on facebook where people are saying 'look at the picture I took' when you can quite clearly see it is AI rendered.

So, I let AI move my drawing and I was quite impressed with the way it done that, I then added a bit of sound to it, anyway go have a look and see what you think.

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Apr 24, 2025

Are Horses Hard to Draw?

Horses are big and strong, they have a lot of muscles on their bodies and legs, they have fluffy tails, manes and a beautiful face, so yes they are complicated to draw.

Free Tutorial

This may be a bit scary for beginner artists or those of you who are just starting out, but here is the thing, we have made an especially easy drawing of a horse for beginners.

Don’t give up here, have a look at it, you will change your mind and want to have a go at it.

We have made this tutorial as easy as can be for you, it is not detailed in any way, but it is still a lovely drawing of a horse and, if you do draw it, it will bump your confidence way up high.

The best part of this horse drawing tutorial is, it’s totally ‘FREE’.

So follow the link below, visit the page and see if you fancy having a go.

Finished Drawings

Once you have finished your fabulous horse drawing, why not share it with us and let us know how you got on, we would love to see it.

You can find the Upload Your Drawing at the bottom of the tutorial page.

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Dec 11, 2024

Moving House Pt 2

OMG boxes everywhere, 2 containers full up, all my crafts packed away, this has all been since May this year and it is now December and I so need to move and get my life back in order and start the fabulous Donkey Drawing.

We are still waiting for people above us on the chain to sort themselves out so I don't know how much longer it will take.

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas which is just around the corner now, I seriously thought we would be in our new house by Christmas, but oh no that's not happening.

Take care, speak soon...

May 08, 2024

Moving House

Did you get your free May 2024 Calendar Page? If not it's over on the Free Gifts Tab on the Home Page.

We haven't been able to start the Donkey Drawing just yet as we are right in the middle of selling our house and moving to a bigger one with more rooms to accommodate our Arts & Crafts.

If you have ever been through this you will know what it is like, everything packed away in boxes.

As soon as we move house and get everything in place, we will start the Donkey Drawing.

We will be doing a really easy version and a full on pucker version which will be fun, look forward to doing that.

So stay with us and have patience until we get started again.

Apr 23, 2024

May's Free Calendar

Wow, April is nearly over, time flies by so quick.

We have uploaded the May 2024 Calendar to our site, you just have to go to the Free Gifts page and scroll down, you will find the link in the paragraph under the orange box for the Shadow Dog photograph.