How to Paint Something You Suck At

This isn’t going to be a painting tutorial, this is just something I’ve been trying to figure out. I’ve written on this topic before. This can be attributed to any artist in any medium, but for argument’s sake, I’m going to be talking about painters. Both traditional and digital. Many artists are good at painting

Daily Digital Challenge: Day 7

Hey, everybody. Didn’t post yesterday because it was my husband’s birthday. That being said, I still made him this for his birthday gift: Okay, so let’s go over how this morning went: 60 Minutes Learning Here are a couple objectives I want to reach with this challenge: Character Design Consistency with character design Bad habit

30 Day Digital Challenge Day 5

Good morning, and happy belated Easter! Before I begin, Days 1-4 are not here because I didn’t really have a clear goal or system in mind yet. I’m borrowing from my 3 Hour Workday Challenge, only geared at digital art. Why Digital Art? Why should you make digital art? What about the feel of the

Art as a Spiritual Practice

Lent started a couple weeks ago. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s 40 days where Catholics (and I know for sure Lutheran, but I don’t know so much about other sects of Christianity), commemorate the 40 days Jesus was in the desert. We usually give up something (typically something diet

Finding Joy in Art

Maybe the reason why I feel motivated to write a happy article is because of how happy I feel right now. As of this morning, I posted page 4 of Dragon Rider’s Dance on time! I realize I didn’t mention this in my last journal entry, but I’m going to be posting every Tuesdays and

Should You Draw Things You Hate?

No! I mean yes! Well, maybe… I dunno.

So I Started a Webcomic…

Alright, so in my last blog post, I was going to try doing a digital art challenge to improve my digital painting skills, but right after that, I got a really bad flu, then went on vacation right afterwords. After all that, I’m finally back at 100% and getting back to my normal routine. For

2020 Self Portrait Project: Half Photo/ Half Painting

New self portrait project for 2020! As well as half-mad musings about the relationship between digital and traditional painting.