IT’S SUNNY AND NOT FREEZING ALL THE TIME YAY. I’m pretty proud of having made it half way in this challenge! These gouache paintings are the highlights of my days, and I just enjoy them so much! I’m looking forward to having all 30 at the end of the month. My goal for the… Read More 30 Day Challenge Wk 2: March of OCs
Here’s another gouache painting! I enjoyed the blue-ish hair in the last post, so I decided to do again for this fella! He was originally (back in 2000) blonde, but whatever! For my next video, I will finally break away from the soft pastel colors! I was nervous, but I think I pulled it off.… Read More VIDEO Gouache Timelapse | Lefores
As an artist, there are a lot of things that I say to myself (sometimes without noticing) that make it really hard to work. It’s a habit of psychological “nagging” that cuts down on my productivity, but also my confidence. While I’ve gotten a little bit better at it over the years (as I get… Read More The 5 Worst Excuses I Give Myself
These first 5 are day-to-day practices that I want to implement/get better at. Warm ups – I typically don’t do warm-up sketches or writing, but over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to do better… and it really works. My brain starts working, my hands start moving, and everything falls into an effective flow.… Read More 10 Good Habits for Artists and Writers
I’ve been trying to identify and correct bad habits I have as an artist. “And correct” is kind of the important part, and it’s the part I usually forget. I am generally pretty quick to point out (to myself and a few “lucky” others) what I’ve done wrong in a drawing, but I generally “fix” it… Read More Visual Library: A Vocabulary of Pictures
Virtually all of us have a natural instinct for telling stories, and it comes out in day-to-day conversation. When your car breaks down and you’re telling your friends about it, you don’t simply say, “I ran out of gas this morning. But my mom picked me up, and nothing else really happened, so I’m fine.”… Read More The Case for Storytelling
I put “fartsy” in a blog title. Ha. In a previous blog post, I talked about asking the right question. I think that’s an easier concept for writers to think about questions. Visual artists have a harder time because they’re answering visual questions. For us, our questions don’t have “?” at the end, they just… Read More Artsy-Fartsy Questions
