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- Platform: Nintendo DS
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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- Discover creative and fun ways to improve and enhance your artistic skills and even learn how to draw and paint
- Accessible portable art course for everyone, each lesson has a step by step approach
- Use the Touch Screen to paint or draw with realistic behaving paints and pencils
- Save creations on to the cartridge and use the slide show feature to view them
- Use the Free Paint to create original pieces, take pictures using Nintendo DSi cameras to use as reference
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If you dream of becoming the latest Picasso or fancy brushing up on your artistic skills, now’s your chance as the Nintendo DS Touch Screen transforms into your very own canvas. Art Academy: Learn painting and drawing techniques with step-by-step training gives both budding and experienced artists simple and creative tips and tricks to improve, enhance and even learn how to draw and paint.
Whatever your ability, you’ll find the step-by-step approach to lessons easy to follow. Art Academy offers lessons and art materials to get you started on your initial artistic journey, as well as more advanced art courses for those more adventurous artists wanting to take their art to the next level.
The helpful tutor, Vince, is on hand to show you how to use the art materials and what to draw, as well as teaching you art theory and techniques to explore independently. Some lessons are inspired by work from famous artists such as Albrecht Dürer (German), Paul Cézanne (French), Leonardo da Vinci (Italian), Jan van Huysum (Dutch), John Constable (English) and many more to get your creative juices flowing.
The Touch Screen on the Nintendo DS console enables you to effortlessly paint or draw with realistically-behaving paints and pencils. The pencils come in three different grades of lead: 2B, HB, 2H and also enable you to draw in soft or hard lines to blend and layer your pencil mark. Learn to use the eraser function to create interesting effects and, of course, unlike with a real life painting, should you make any mistakes, these can easily be erased without wasting any paper. The paint function behaves similarly to acrylic paint. The paintbrush set comes in three round or flat brushes allowing you to paint in thick or thin lines simply using your Nintendo DS stylus.
Ten paint tubes make up the game’s basic paint palette and there are 20 empty spaces for you to mix your own original colours. You can also control the amount of paint on your brush to give different effects such as dry brushing, and the level of brush wetness which will affect the transparency of paint to allow for a variety of painting effects in your artwork. Zoom in to your masterpieces to perfect the finer details close up and why not take advantage of the grid function, to help you achieve the right scale and proportions?
Use the Free Paint mode to allow you to freestyle your artwork, letting your imagination run wild and check out the material library for a wide range of stock images to get you inspired. If you are a Nintendo DSi or Nintendo DSi XL owner, why not also use your built-in camera to capture images and redraw them at leisure. With such realistic artist training, you can use your Nintendo DSi & Nintendo DSi XL to help improve painting and drawing skills in real life!
Product Description
If you dream of becoming the latest Picasso or fancy brushing up on your artistic skills, now’s your chance as the Nintendo DS Touch Screen transforms into your very own canvas. Art Academy: Learn painting and drawing techniques with step-by-step training gives both budding and experienced artists simple and creative tips and tricks to improve, enhance and even learn how to draw and paint.
Whatever your ability, you’ll find the step-by-step approach to lessons easy to follow. Art Academy offers lessons and art materials to get you started on your initial artistic journey, as well as more advanced art courses for those more adventurous artists wanting to take their art to the next level.
The helpful tutor, Vince, is on hand to show you how to use the art materials and what to draw, as well as teaching you art theory and techniques to explore independently. Some lessons are inspired by work from famous artists such as Albrecht Dürer (German), Paul Cézanne (French), Leonardo da Vinci (Italian), Jan van Huysum (Dutch), John Constable (English) and many more to get your creative juices flowing.
The Touch Screen on the Nintendo DS console enables you to effortlessly paint or draw with realistically-behaving paints and pencils. The pencils come in three different grades of lead: 2B, HB, 2H and also enable you to draw in soft or hard lines to blend and layer your pencil mark. Learn to use the eraser function to create interesting effects and, of course, unlike with a real life painting, should you make any mistakes, these can easily be erased without wasting any paper. The paint function behaves similarly to acrylic paint. The paintbrush set comes in three round or flat brushes allowing you to paint in thick or thin lines simply using your Nintendo DS stylus.
Ten paint tubes make up the game’s basic paint palette and there are 20 empty spaces for you to mix your own origi
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169 of 171 people found the following review helpful
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This is fab! A really simple but splendid idea which should appeal to a wide range of people. I am happy to go Mario Karting with the best of them, but in more reflective moments, sitting down and developing a skill (and I do feel that this game can develop a skill beyond just being good at a particular game) is great fun.
The Art Academy consists of a series of lessons which teach you the basic controls, then show you the basics of sketching and painting in different styles. You are led through the lessons step by step by Vincent the artist who demonstrates each step, then allows you to complete the step yourself. You can save the lessons at any point - some take longer than others - and your completed works of art can be saved to the game card. It's a shame that there isn't a way to get the pictures off the DS though. I have been amazed at how good the few pictures I have done so far look not because they are great works of art, but because they look something like what they are supposed to look like! My art teacher from my school days would be amazed as creativity with pencils and paint really isn't my gift!
The other part of Art Academy is the Free Painting section which allows you to really get creative. You can either choose from one of about 50 stock photos included with the game or, if you have a DSI take pictures of your own, and then use all of Art Academy's tools to make a picture.
Using the game is a surprisingly pleasing experience. You soon feel as if you are using a pencil or a paintbrush rather than a stylus. You learn how to mix colours too.
This is an excellent use of the DS - I can't think why no-one has nailed it sooner than this. My only complaint is that I'd have liked a few more lessons - there are 10 main lessons and then some mini lessons to help you practice the skills in the main lessons, perhaps more stock photos, and a means of getting images off the DS (at least on the DSI with its removable memory card). However these are no more than niggles, and certainly not enough to detract from this product's five star rating from me!
The Art Academy consists of a series of lessons which teach you the basic controls, then show you the basics of sketching and painting in different styles. You are led through the lessons step by step by Vincent the artist who demonstrates each step, then allows you to complete the step yourself. You can save the lessons at any point - some take longer than others - and your completed works of art can be saved to the game card. It's a shame that there isn't a way to get the pictures off the DS though. I have been amazed at how good the few pictures I have done so far look not because they are great works of art, but because they look something like what they are supposed to look like! My art teacher from my school days would be amazed as creativity with pencils and paint really isn't my gift!
The other part of Art Academy is the Free Painting section which allows you to really get creative. You can either choose from one of about 50 stock photos included with the game or, if you have a DSI take pictures of your own, and then use all of Art Academy's tools to make a picture.
Using the game is a surprisingly pleasing experience. You soon feel as if you are using a pencil or a paintbrush rather than a stylus. You learn how to mix colours too.
This is an excellent use of the DS - I can't think why no-one has nailed it sooner than this. My only complaint is that I'd have liked a few more lessons - there are 10 main lessons and then some mini lessons to help you practice the skills in the main lessons, perhaps more stock photos, and a means of getting images off the DS (at least on the DSI with its removable memory card). However these are no more than niggles, and certainly not enough to detract from this product's five star rating from me!
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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I recently bought this game for my 11 year old Daughter and it is great. It kept her away from my computer and entertained her for ages. AND, it actually does teach you how to draw! It's a slick little game made by a company called 'Headstrong' here in London and they've done a top job- well worth the money.
126 of 131 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I've longed to be able to draw and paint since school days, and couldn't even draw a convincing matchstick man. Within 1, yes 1 day I was painting life like objects as if I've done it for years! Now 6 days on, I'm now free-style painting landscapes, animals etc and saving them (smugly!) on the gallery on the nintendo. Tony Hart didn't put my pictures on 'Vision On', but I have my own gallery now!
Anyone would love this, but if like me you are totally rubbish at art, I recommend you buy this, you WILL be amazed. I'm even going to buy art materials now, and try it on the real thing. I agree with the reviewer who says it's the best thing to come out on the nintendo. Hope a follow up will come out?!
Anyone would love this, but if like me you are totally rubbish at art, I recommend you buy this, you WILL be amazed. I'm even going to buy art materials now, and try it on the real thing. I agree with the reviewer who says it's the best thing to come out on the nintendo. Hope a follow up will come out?!
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Best drawing game ever!
I never really knew how to draw, and when I was searching for a drawing guide, I found this Art Academy. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Rachel
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This is an amazing game. I truly believe I am more enthusiastic about it than my 7 year old whose birthday I bought it for. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Wiggi
PURE BRILLIANCE
I got this for christmas and i loved it. long story short i didnt know i could draw so well but thanks to this game i know i can draw a whole lot better . great buy a must get
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Fantastic, teaches me how to draw things I thought I never could! I have learnt to draw faces and flowers which look real.
Published 3 months ago by suzieq
Good, but finishes quickly.
I liked this game to start with, but then it got a bit boring when I had completed all the challenges. Read more
Published 3 months ago by H.Paish
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A very good product which improves artistic ability. Clear and concise instructions with demonstration. A variety of different subject selection to choose from. Read more
Published 4 months ago by dany
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This was a present for my daughter. She loves drawing and this has helped her a lot. She said it has been a great help to her. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mrs G
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Great insight to art/drawing. My Grandson loves drawing so I am sure this will keep him amused for ages.The fact that it is for his DS made it more exciting.
Published 4 months ago by L. A. McEwan
easy fun way to learn drawing
excellent way to begin to learn how to draw, however the DS screen size is a limitation for the little ones. There is only so much you can do with such a small canvas.
Published 8 months ago by Brown
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Bought this as a birthday present for an 8-year-old, they love it.
I tried it out myself and found it very rewarding (as someone who has no artistic talent whatsoever!). Read more
I tried it out myself and found it very rewarding (as someone who has no artistic talent whatsoever!). Read more
Published 8 months ago by Sally
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