art lesson

I finally got to finish the 3-HR speed paint I was working on last weekend. I had to knock off some time from my regular grind to do it. The image was inspired by the latest illustration that Anna Podedwarna did for MTG. I don’t know what it was with that particular image, but it […]

This week’s tempo felt really nice. Not too busy, not too lazy. I felt like I could have pushed some more work in the digital front… but then again it won’t really matter if I did or not. If I had done a lot in the digital front, part of me will still feel like […]

I have not had an art tantrum in forever. Yes, art tantrums are a real thing… and yes, adult professional artists suffer art tantrums. There’s a Donald Duck cartoon that shows Donald frustrated with his artwork that he would crumple up what he’s doing and throw it behind him… just like the way real artists […]

I ran into this little cutie pie in my hard drive today; I remember my friends making fun of this illustration the first time I showed them. They couldn’t make sense of it. Guess what? Neither can I really… I honestly don’t know what the original inspiration for this speed paint is. All I know […]

This week’s throwback takes us back to an artwork from last year; This is by no means a good looking digital sculpt. In all honesty, it’s not all that great. But what I love best about it is the circumstances surrounding my process of this gem. I haven’t done a digital sculpt in about a […]

So typically I post images in throwback Thursday that is not part of my public portfolio. Either the images are too dated for me to put in my juried portfolio or that I don’t like it much. Today I figured I would take a look back at an image I did that to this day, […]

Updates are going to be a bit slower and lower in quantity starting from now. I’ll explain why later. The good news is that I’m still producing, so there’s at least something to look forward to. Here are this week’s art updates; What’s really worth taking a look at is my seven-hour version of “Nothing […]