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Post Graduation Studies

Francis Vallejo

Across the world, art students are graduating from their respective programs and entering the professional world. Congrats to you all! This post is for you. Some of you have jobs lined up. Awesome. Some of you are pursuing freelance or waiting to hear back from your job applications and all of a sudden have all this time on your hands. What to do? Well, 12 years ago I was a young artist freshly graduated looking…

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10 Things… I Remember About Planning Paintings

Gregory Manchess

November 26, 2025 - -Gregory Manchess Since it's all about me...You may notice that I changed the title to 'Things I Remember", realizing that these things come from my own notes about my painting career. I'd rather avoid the preaching when possible. So the rest of these post topics will focus on my selfish perspective, and hopefully you'll be able to take something away from it to use. 1. Start small One word: thumbnails. I remember the day I realized that tiny little drawings, if designed well, will blow up into the same exact proportions. In other words, what works small, works large. Not the other way around. One problem: I hated my thumbnails. So, I spent years going through the agony of learning to draw shapes fast, and as accurately as possible. This saved tremendous grief down the…

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