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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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Check List For Evaluating Sketches

Kirbi Fagan

December 30, 2025 - Hi artists and makers, I’m sharing with you an in-depth checklist to look through to push your sketches and concepts as far as they can go. Wherever you are in your illustration journey, I hope this list makes an impact in your flow. Intention is critical no matter what making, especially’s in today’s AI curious world. Understanding how I’m using the word sketch will help you get the most out of it. This list is for professionals, students and mentees to evaluate their sketches before moving to the next phase of the project. This may or may not include a client, deepening on the work you do. While you can apply these reminders to one sketch, many of the questions are evaluating about 3 sketches for a single concept. For example, in the composition section…

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