art lessons

I did a face sculpt this weekend that got me heavily thinking about my many weaknesses when it comes to sculpting. The majority of my problem lies within the eyes. The eyes are literally a major decision bottleneck for me. Two of the issues that seriously confound me are a) what exactly is the size […]

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 […]

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 […]

Looking back at this particular piece gave me some memories; Not too long ago I posted an artwork that set me on the path to doing drippy acrylic paintings. This is one of the paintings from that particular set. I honestly love this particular painting, even though now I consider it “immature.” As I had […]