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How to Address When An Artist Feels Stuck and Unable to Keep Up

Ron Lemen

Although I gave myself a timed limit to this, this is my typical approach to something complex, falling into a pattern of what I would usually do when sketching on location.  It is not very exciting and is certainly not exploring the subject from a creative angle.   As artists, it can sometimes feel like the walls are closing in as new technologies and tools appear faster than we can fully understand them and feel…

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How to Draw Folds and Study Drapery

Ron Lemen

December 22, 2025 - Happy holidays.Despite the craziness in the world today, I hope you’re still finding some quiet refuge in your creative space. I have a small gift for you this Christmas. I’m sharing the beginning of a new video series on how to draw folds and drapery like a boss. With CGMA no longer active, I now have full creative control over this material and wanted to make it available directly to you. This course was consistently regarded as one of the strongest deep dives on the subject, and I’m excited to finally share it freely with everyone. Folds and drapery are one of those fundamentals that play a big part in gesture, form, action, and more. In this series, I cover all nine fold types (not seven), material types and how to differentiate them convincingly, the…

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