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Calling All Artists: Check Out These Drawing Tips and Tutorials on Pinterest!

April 17, 2015 by

You love to draw, but taking an art class might be too time-consuming. Just like with most things, you can find everything you need to improve your art skills right on the Internet! Pinterest boasts a number of drawing tutorials, painting tips, and other ways to connect with experienced artists without leaving the comforts of your own laptop.

Drawing Tutorials
If you’re a visual learner looking for a bit of assistance improving your sketches, the Drawing Tutorials board on Pinterest can help. This board is filled with links to videos that will show you the mechanics of drawing landscapes, sketching the details of a person’s lips, and even creating beautiful drawings on a chalkboard.

Draw
You don’t particularly need to watch instructional videos, but you could use a bit of guidance when it comes to drawing. This board contains endless sources of drawing inspiration, as well as diagrams and daily assignments to help you improve your drawing skills. You can also use the additional tabs at the top to browse the Draw board by doodles, anime, sketches, or whichever type of drawing that you’re most interested in.

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Newly Betrothed? Don’t Miss These Wedding Boards on Pinterest!

December 5, 2014 by

You can't stop admiring that brand-new ring on your finger, but now it’s time for the real fun to begin. Even if you’ve been dreaming of that fairy tale wedding since before you can remember, things can get a bit overwhelming once it comes time for the actual planning. Here are three Pinterest boards that offer hours of wedding inspiration, while also helping to keep you on schedule—and on budget!

Wedding Ideas
Are you planning a shabby chic wedding, or is your style more glitz and glamor? Whatever type of nuptials you have in mind, this Pinterest board is filled with ideas to help plan your dream wedding. Creative honeymoon funds, fun wedding favors, and simple, handmade decorations will make your big day even more special.

Weddings
Browse Pinterest’s main wedding board by categories like wedding photography, flowers, and invitation inspiration to find tips and tricks for every aspect of planning a wedding. There are even printable checklists and calendars to help you stay organized along the way.

Romantic Weddings
Whether you’re actually planning a wedding or if you just love looking at ideas for that day far off in your future, the Romantic Weddings board is an endless source of dreamy inspiration. Best of all, this board is filled with photos from real weddings to offer a sneak peek of real life couples’ special days.

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What is Pinterest?

October 18, 2012 by
Have you heard the online buzz about “Pinterest” and found yourself wondering what exactly it is? Read on to learn about this exciting photo sharing website that is has been rapidly gaining in popularity since its launch in 2010:
 
An Overview of Pinterest
Pinterest is a social photo sharing website with a pinboard-style format that enables users to create and organize image collections based on specific themes – for example, certain events, interests, holidays, and hobbies. As a Pinterest user, you can browse other people’s photo pinboards, hit “like” on photos you admire, and “re-pin” other people’s images so that they will appear in your own collection. Both Twitter and Facebook have options that allow you to share your Pinterest “pins.” Essentially, Pinterest acts as a personalized media platform in which users’ content can be browsed on the main page.
 
Background of Pinterest
Development of Pinterest began in December 2009 and started with small test group of invitation-only members. Just nine months after the website was officially launched, it had over 10,000 users, and shortly after that it was named Time Magazine’s August 2011 issue as one of the “50 Best Websites of 2011.” By December of that same year, Pinterest had become one of the largest social networking services on the web, with over ten million visits per week, and shortly after that it was recorded as having 11.7 million unique users, which made it the fastest site in history to break through the ten million unique visitor mark. The popularity of Pinterest has continued to spread at a rapid pace and it is now the third largest social network website in the United States. 
 
Using Pinterest
How do people use Pinterest? In a nutshell, the site is designed so that you can connect with others around the world over imagery that relates to mutual interests. So Pinterest essentially serves two main functions, a personal one and a social one. On the personal front, it provides a forum for the preservation, archiving, organization, and displaying of photos that matter to you, arranged around themes of your choosing – like a virtual version of your own family albums. On the social front, its purpose is that it allows you to share those images with other users and also interact with those users’ photos, connecting with others based on similar interests. 
 
Getting Started With Pinterest
To register a new Pinterest account, you can either receive an invitation from a friend already registered or go to the Pinterest site and directly request an invitation. You can also establish and access a Pinterest account by linking Pinterest to a Twitter or Facebook account – however, it’s important to note that, in order to interact with Pinterest on Facebook, you need to have the new Facebook Timeline format activated. In addition, once you have a Pinterest account, you can get the Pinterest app for iPhone (which was recently updated with exciting new features) and the company now has an iPad app in development. If you’re a non-iPhone user, you can use Pinterest Mobile to access the site from your mobile device.
 
Other Useful Aspects of Pinterest
Pinterest is designed to help you connect with things and people that interest you. Here’s how it works – on the main Pinterest page, a “pin feed” appears, displaying the chronological activity from the Pinterest boards that you have chosen to follow. To help you find new boards and pins that might compel you, you can visit a “Tastemakers” page that recommends content to you (based on your past pins, etc). There are presently four central sections to browse, under the following titles: everything, videos, popular, and gifts. These categories are in place to help you connect as quickly and conveniently as possible with pins and boards relevant to your taste and interests. 
 
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