TODAY'S FEATURED POST
“Presearch” — Part 1 of 3
Amazing Spider-Man #638, Cover. 2010 Watercolor and gouache on Illustration Board, 11 x 17". Part 1: Why do we need reference? — Refining searches through specificity — Today begins a 3-part post on "referential" advice. I will include a smattering of links that some of you may find useful, but my main purpose is to convey my thought process — in particular, the way in which I increase the depth of my knowledge…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Sifting through the Treasure Trove
December 31, 2024 - For this last day of 2024, I had the idea of sharing my top-10 articles of the year. This is a treasure trove of a website, but with 4500+ posts, I need to bookmark the ones that I expect to revisit. With 253 just this year it proved impossible to narrow it down to just 10 (even with me re-reading all of them in the last month!), especially with the variety of resources amongst them. Instead, today I share 10 MC articles of 2024 that have had the greatest impact on me. Tools, techniques, reviews, etc are very useful, but I seem to have a bias toward the articles that make me think differently about how I approach my art, and fire me up to get back in front of the easel. Art &…
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