(In part one I’m going to talk about Reference in general. In part two I’ll get specific on how to use it as a step in the process of creating a painting.)
It seems most artists are ashamed of it. They keep it hidden away afraid the viewer will pull back the curtain and realize that [...]
Finally finished. I’m happy with the result but as always the picture in my head was 10 times better. That’s progress as I can remember a time not so long ago with the pictures in my head were easily 1,000 times better when what my hands produced.
After the inks were dry I broke out my [...]
I’ve always wanted to be an art teacher. Then I looked into the salaries that most teachers make and it wasn’t a pretty picture. The past few weeks I’ve been working on projects that I can’t post yet and might not be able to for a little while and I thought what can I do [...]
I stumbled upon a post over at Penciljack.com by Caanan, a wonderfully talented artist. He was messing around, with some fabulous results, in Adobe Illustrator. I’ve heard and read some things over the years about being able to ink comics and do some wonderful vector illustration with the program and while I use it daily, [...]

