How to Draw With Perspective

If you want to take your drawings to the next level, give them realistic depth. Drawing in perspective will make your subject appear to have space within the page. You do this by first identifying the vanishing points on the horizon of your drawing. There are a couple different vanishing points that you can choose...

An Artist’s Bucket List – Pieces to See in This Lifetime

Bucket List Concept 2 - by Jon Hamilton Over the course of history, creative minds have built an ever-expanding portfolio of amazing works that attract the eye and make us question our possibilities. Granted, "Good Artwork" is a phrase that is very opinionated among each of us individually. However, cumulatively, we have surrounded pieces that...

What is Creative Expression?

Back to the Wild Illustration - By tubik.arts Many of us remember making art as small children. Building out our 'masterpiece' on the floor or kitchen table or classroom and losing ourselves as we became engulfed in the task at hand. Immersed in a world of paints, crayons, construction paper, brown paper bags and Popsicle...

Fun Holidays That Might Be Worth Taking Part In

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Adobe Suite – Use It/Don’t Pay For It

Many of us love Adobe's creative suite (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, etc.) and use it for almost all of the digital works that we create. What we don't love about it is the price that comes with it. There are a great deal of expenses that artists encounter in their process. I believe that making the...

A look into the graphic design world – Best Of

The global community of graphic designers today is immensely vast and saturated with experts from all areas. I have spent the passed few days curating a list of those that I personally find to be of the best out there. These artists make their livings changing the way that the rest of us see the...

Characteristics every successful artist maintain

The Persistence of Memoryby Zhemin Wang Persistence Persistence is the quality that allows someone to continue doing something or trying to do something even though it is difficult or opposed by other people. Persistence helps artists with: Improving and perfecting skillsLearn new skillsFinish individual pieces of artBuild a successful art careerSustain an art career If an...

5 Ways to Render a Building:

From the beginning of time buildings were drawn by hand: Prehistoric The goal of the artist/architect has been to share his envisioned design, including important details, with others who would build it.  Hand sketching/drawing allowed options to be quickly explored: Michelangelo, Florence Once the design was sufficiently developed then hard line drawings including plans elevations and...

How to Get Past a Blank Canvas – And Where To Start

By Michael Szeto How do we get over the fear of the Great White? The big empty space? That white paper or white canvas that is staring at us, blinding us into submission and freezing us to the spot. Unable to move we have no idea how to get started. Where to put that brush mark....

Looking to build a Webspace? Here are some things to consider:

At some point in our lives we all will make something or be a part of something that we want to promote publicly. In this day and age we are given a digital platform that is perfect for curating ideas and spreading awareness. The hardest part is making the most out of the resources available...