art lesson

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 […]

The featured image for this article is so painful to look at. By the time I made this piece it was already 2010. I have been digitally painting for about three to four years by the time I made this work, albeit I didn’t have a daily art practice yet. It’s no surprise then that […]

It wasn’t too long ago that I posted one of my first digital paintings. It was a portrait of Ellen Pompeo, and in that post, I talked about how much of a noob I was back then because I used a small brush throughout the painting. That wasn’t very smart of me. Today I ran […]

So to basically start this article on the right foot, I have to lay down some terms so we are all on the same page. The words “speed painting” gets misconstrued a lot. According to Wikipedia, “speed painting is an artistic technique where the artist has a limited time to finish the work.” The key […]

Why? Why oh why oh why? Seriously I don’t know what I was thinking when I made this picture back in 2010; In hindsight, it’s actually not that bad rendering wise. How I decided where the main light source will be coming from is actually brilliant. The lighting scheme created form shadows on the main […]

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