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10 Illustration Rules I Learned the Hard Way

Dan dos Santos

  Many will say that there are no rules in art. And that's true when it comes to creation. But when it comes to the business of Illustration, I do have a set of hard rules that I never break... mostly because I've learned the hard way not to. I thought I'd share with you some of those rules in the hopes that you can avoid the same suffering.     1. If you paint…

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“The Frog Bard” Digital Demo for Huion

Justin Gerard

April 15, 2025 -   I was recently given the opportunity to test drive the new Huion Kamvas 24 4K digital tablet and I have the results to share with you today. Most of the painting was done live, and if you'd like to see it, you can check out the first VOD where we came up with the design based on ideas from the chat: The Frog Bard Drawing (Youtube) In the second part we dive into the painting to see how well the device performs when working in color: The Frog Bard Painting (Youtube)   I don't tend to like drawing digitally that much. (There is nothing quite like the feel of old school graphite on paper!) But the Huion was actually excellent to work on and I felt like it solved a lot of the problems…

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