#866: True Colors
Thursday • February 17th 2022 • 9:07:56 pm • 2KB
While colors can be stylized,and in some ways made better. It is best to start with true colors,and add the enhancements later. The enhanced color palette,can rest on a separate layer. Thus allowing for multiple color themes,to exist in one file. At some...
#865: How To Become An Artist And Enjoy Every Step
Wednesday • February 16th 2022 • 10:10:35 pm • 4KB
Art has finally forced me to rest a little while,I still did a quarter of a realistic painting today. A realistic continuation of the Lady and Her Dog,but at a much slower pace. Using Reference Images Tool,as a tracing and color guide. By stretching it...
#864: Three Weeks With Pop Surrealism: First Impressions Of The Absurd
Tuesday • February 15th 2022 • 2:16:36 pm • 2KB
It has been three weeks since I drew the Hoistu Cat,and last week I added the realism component that makes lowbrow so fascinating. I think the biggest lesson that I have learned is to keep things simple,the absurd can quickly get out of control. It is...
#863: Impressionism 2022
Monday • February 14th 2022 • 3:42:31 pm • 3KB
There is art that is meant for Galleries and Museums,but also there is simpler and smaller art, that is for business. It is probably not a lot of money,but it will pay for healthy snacks, and an occasional doodad-thingamajig. Which brings us to the topic...
#862: Art Is For All
Sunday • February 13th 2022 • 9:15:09 pm • 1KB
Art is something we all adore,but it has always been at war. The greatest creators,and machine inventors. Versus the Free Hand,who call machines contraband. Renascence was born of machines,born to impress Royal Queens. But, no one ever says anything,and a...
#861: The Portrait Artist
Sunday • February 13th 2022 • 7:52:20 pm • 3KB
Coralie Clément (Art Music) Jak zacząć malować po numerach? (Paint by number) Jak zacząć malować obrazy - jak zostać artystą w 10 krokach How to Turn a Room into a Camera Obscura The Camera Obscura Dark Room Best Digital projector for Artists in 2021 (Top...
#860: The Cat Pea Technique: The Digital Portrait Experiment Is A Success
Saturday • February 12th 2022 • 9:14:47 pm • 4KB
I was getting around to painting my favorite gym photo,but I still had a problem with painting eyes. So I felt like I needed one more practice test,I remembered "Reddit Gets Drawn" from my days of I will never draw like that... And while I am not a fan of...
#859: The Cat Pea Technique: Passionately Tracing And Coloring In Krita
Friday • February 11th 2022 • 1:39:02 pm • 3KB
I worry that my first poem is not enough to announce that gateways to art,have opened to all now - there are no more barriers left. Maybe, probably,it is the first thing everybody learns at the Art Academy - but they don't seem to share. This isn't really...
#858: Caricatures!
Thursday • February 10th 2022 • 8:42:05 pm • 4KB
Somehow male and female faceseach have their own caricature. Ladies have bigger eyes, smaller, (though not shorter) noses, and small lips,and they are squished together towards the bottom. Germs on the other hand have their eyes bigger, noses shortened,and...
#857: You Are An Artist
Wednesday • February 9th 2022 • 4:47:03 pm • 2KB
Off the top of my head I can think of,Krita's Reference Image Picking, Wall Projectors, Graphite Paper, Tracing, Pouncing, Dark Room, and Perspectographs. All of this techniques,are beautiful and ingenious - and they are art. Krita, has a feature called...
#856: Get Mad And Turn Everyone Into A Bobblehead
Tuesday • February 8th 2022 • 6:11:39 pm • 4KB
The thing to do is to learn for real,learn things that provide results despite education's faults. There is something rotten within the state of school,and that is just not very cool. They should teach you programming and digital art,doing anything else is...
#855: Education As A Quest For New Talents
Monday • February 7th 2022 • 3:38:25 pm • 3KB
It would be so nice if we could hope to repair High School,but there is too much paperwork, and far too many broken promises. The minds of the Students and the younger generations,are far too precious to even consider staining with ineffective education. ...
#854: Don't Try To Paint The Whole Mona Lisa In One Go
Sunday • February 6th 2022 • 8:16:19 pm • 4KB
All the tutorials show you how,some mention how many sittings (or painting sessions). But few tell you that you just paint one part a day,and sometimes you shouldn't even finish. The aim must never be to paint a Mona Lisa,but rather to have a wonderful...
#853: The Art Punk
Sunday • February 6th 2022 • 11:30:56 am • 2KB
Biopunk Weyland's 2023 TED Talk Introducing the David HR Giger interview Gruyeres Switzerland The Art of H. R. Giger The Alien Movie Saga Finally Explained Tears in Rain Yesterday's Dreams, Today's Reality R'ha Venom Eats Carnage Nanopunk Nanite Apocalypse...
#852: The Discovery And Practice Of Lowbrow Art
Saturday • February 5th 2022 • 8:47:01 pm • 3KB
Years ago,in my Art adventures, I'd put on the classy Coralie Clémentand drive to the Biggest Bookstore I found. Looking at pencil drawing tutorials,taught me the importance of creating Art Books. And looking thorough reference graphics for designers,was...
#851: An Anonymous Open Letter To All The World's Teenagers
Friday • February 4th 2022 • 2:31:24 pm • 11KB
I will introduce you to a clock,that you can use as a measuring stick. I will show that Universal Income,and Real Education solve the problems you will soon face. And I will ask you to stage a protest,and build a real school, where people can learn for...
#850: The Electric Blanket
Thursday • February 3rd 2022 • 10:40:30 pm • 1KB
Hey, you may not need extra tights,for the coldest wintry nights. Because there is something you can get,and it is called: Electric Blanket. It is one of our greatest inventions,and it always deserves extra mentions. So, if it is that winter cold that you...
#849: Groundhog Day: Six More Weeks Of Winter
Wednesday • February 2nd 2022 • 3:50:49 pm • 831B
There is a strange animal that kind of speaks,and it is in charge of Winter ... usually wanting six more weeks. It's thoughts do not usually run very deep,he merely wants winter so that he can sleep. Truth be told,he looks as tired, as old. And he is as...
#848: The Propaganda Poster Challenge: Or, All You Need For Your First Art Show, And Then Some
Tuesday • February 1st 2022 • 3:03:44 pm • 12KB
An Art Show is a few days,of where you make your art speak. You can make it yell,you can make it whisper. You can make it relevant,or it can be totally retro. Please, understand,being shy is beautiful. And you will be beautiful,for being shy. There is no...
#847: Mona Lisa's Eyes
Monday • January 31st 2022 • 6:02:45 pm • 2KB
Mona Lisa is a great teacher,the portrait is very simple and friendly. Leonardo does a great job showing us,the essentials without sacrificing beauty. The more time you spend with Mona,the more inviting copying her will seem. As the saying goes,eyes are...
#846: The Conservationist
Sunday • January 30th 2022 • 4:05:30 pm • 3KB
Greta Thunberg Connects Climate, Ecological, and Health Crises The Tiger Story The missing piece in wildlife conservation | Deborah McCauley How a Wildlife Conservationist is Born The Value of Environmental Education Modern day wildlife conservation | Nick...
#845: Wisdom: Our Most Natural And Greatest Superpower
Sunday • January 30th 2022 • 10:13:05 am • 3KB
The name of species is crowned with the word:wise, as in Wise Beings. Wisdom separates us,from all the other animals. Without wisdom we are almost lost,we are forced into confusion, and reliance of most basic skills. Throughout history, it was well known...
#844: A Letter To Brand New Artists: Mona Lisa Calls To You
Saturday • January 29th 2022 • 7:05:12 pm • 3KB
Sometimes it feels like the whole world is against you,and in a way that is true. But when you don't know what to do,let Mona Lisa Come to you. Get a Pen Tablet and learn GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Blender, and to use an Ender,speed thy slowly, and don't let...
#843: Art Is Something Else
Friday • January 28th 2022 • 10:07:53 pm • 2KB
Each time you learn something new,new ideas will come and find you. And I would venture,that most times artist learn by adventure. They work on their thing,and when done new ideas spring. And they keep going round and round,until all the ideas are found. ...