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Johnny Broke The Siege. Story with an all lifetime lesson

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     Jonny was only five years old when he lost his father Agbeli Dzidepo. The mother’s name is Asinyo Esinam, a woman of value but unfortunately financially handicapped. Even before Mrs Esi lost her husband, life has not been easy for this household even though her husband was a teacher in Living Academy Preparatory School. Johnny was a handsome and a respectful boy who took exactly after his father’s good moral. His parents were very particular about his moral upbringing and his growth academically. Unlike children who turn out to be a disappointment even when their parents work tirelessly for their upkeep, his attitude was different. At home, he is the type that would run errands for the mother and made sure he reads his notes after and before school. Johnny learnt a very common saying one day which gingers him to aspire higher even as a child. “Reading makes the man“ and “Practice makes man perfect.“ He never went a day without saying this after his morning devotion with the mother

How do you make pointillism art? The techniques and execution strategy

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Drawing as a practice that is very useful in advertising, branding, illustration, animation and the rest has many techniques employed for different purposes. After a drawing is done, it has to be shaded to give it form so that it looks realistic or solid. When this is not done, a drawing is said to be incomplete since there will not be any explicit definition to what is drawn on the support. The above is a skull drawn and shaded with a pencil. The artist student who did this drawing made sure where there have to be shadows, the dots are more concentrated over there. Observe the eye socket, beneath the cranium, the gum and other areas. Without a good variation of the dots, the drawing would have been flat. Some shading techniques are: Pointillism Hatching Cross-hatching Mass shading Among these, we are going to look at POINTILLISM which is one of the shading or drawing techniques that is time-consuming and maybe even difficult for some to do. Even though the description of this method