drawing tips
Do As Many Things As Possible!
This week, I will argue that you should consider doing many different things instead and not stick to doing one thing.More
Stick To Doing Only One Thing!
You know link trees: Instagram, and many other platforms, allow you to have one link in your bio. But you do so much! You have a YouTube channel. An Etsy shop! A website! And more!!!More
Should You Go To Art Academy?
Should You Go To Art Academy? Here are my thoughts on that.More
Make Many Drawings Instead Of Trying To Make A Few Good Ones
The other half was instructed just to make as much as they could.More
Heinrich Kley - Leut und Viecher, published 1912 - high-resolution scans
Look at what I was able to get my hands on!More
Do What Makes You Happy!
You choose which of the two is more applicable to you.More
Make For An Audience!
If you want to make money with your art, or if you are just out for admiration from an audience (and it is a good idea, to be honest about that, to know what drives you), you need to make something they need.More
Do You Do What's Popular, Or Do What Makes You Happy?
All I can do that could be of value to you is lay out the advantages and disadvantages of each.More
Learning To Draw: The Top-Down Versus The Bottom-Up Approach
Forty-two years ago—I might as well tell you that I am an old man—my father started teaching me how to program. We had an Osborne computer, and my father taught me how to program in Basic, the programming language you had on all these computers back then.More
Work LESS efficiently!
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Work MORE efficiently!
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Rembrandt Did Not Have A PlayStation
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The BEST Introduction To Perspective Ever--And It's FREE!
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The Free Figure Drawing Bootcamp You MUST Check out!
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Expand The Definition Of What You Do Creatively!
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Why Is It So Hard To Draw Every Day?
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Artists: Measure Your Ignorance!
In another life, I was a team leader at a technology company. We were developing a new geographical mapping dataset, and we hired a young student who had an affinity with maps to look over them to find out if there were mistakes in them.More
Optimal Conditions For Creating Art
Caravaggio lived before and was an inspiration to Rembrandt. He made these still-life paintings of fruit, giving each a different texture to brag about his skills.More
Question Your Assumptions
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Composition Yin And Yang
In the past, artists would make these portrait drawings, drawing the facial features with excruciating detail. Artists would then draw the clothes with loose lines that suggested the texture of the fabric. The contrast makes the illustration much more interesting.More
Artists! Take Breaks!
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Are You Too Old To Become An Artist?
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Should You Draw Every Day?
Often you hear people say that you should draw every day if you want to become good, but is this true?More
Creating Art With Social Media In Mind?
The topic for today: you shouldn’t make art just for social media. Social media, if you let it, will just gobble up all of your time.More
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