#41 - 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.

#40 - Work LESS efficiently!

#39 - Work MORE efficiently!

#38 - Rembrandt Did Not Have A PlayStation

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#36 - The Free Figure Drawing Bootcamp You MUST Check out!

#35 - Expand The Definition Of What You Do Creatively!

#34 - Why Is It So Hard To Draw Every Day?

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#33 - 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.

#32 - 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.

#31 - Question Your Assumptions

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#30 - 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.

#29 - Artists! Take Breaks!

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#28 - Are You Too Old To Become An Artist?

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#27 - 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?

#26 - 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.

#25 - Measuring Art Skills

I find that there are five skill levels, and for any single skill, you are somewhere on that scale.

#24 - Testing Your Art?

The story goes that one day, Leonardo Da Vinci wanted to find out if the anatomy books were correct. So he went out in the night and stole dead bodies from the morgue, and he dissected them.

#23 - Know The Rules Before You Can Break Them?

It’s not that he couldn’t paint symmetric fruit bowls; he had proper training at an art academy. He was perfectly capable of painting a perfectly symmetric fruit bowl.

#22 - For Artists, Input Is Output

I soon figured out that it wasn’t for me. To be an editorial cartoonist, you have to make yourself angry every day, and I am just not like that.

#21 - New Year's Resolution? Do This Instead!

For years, I would have cool ideas—or so I thought—and then I would enthusiastically pile things on, which I could add to that idea until I ran the idea into the ground!

#20 - Why Artists Should Create Campaigns

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#19 - Gamify Your Art Creation Process!

I recently decided to let go of producing output and just focusing on the process. Just have fun drawing, you know? Fill sketchbooks and such.

#18 - Listening While Making Art?

In her remarkable book ‘Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain,’ Betty Edwards explains how you should shut out words from your mind while drawing.
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