The Idea Battle
Everyone has ideas. Most of us are fairly average in how we use our minds to generate them. While...
Gregory Manchess
10 Things…To Nail A Likeness
A handful of practical issues will improve your portrait work really fast. It comes from paying...
Fear of Photos
Working from photos comes up every semester I teach. The students are always concerned that it’s...
10 Things…10 Days to a Breakout Painting
Nearly every artist has a breakout painting that establishes their direction. A signature piece...
LEARNING FROM THE HALL OF FAME
Along with stellar artists Steve Brodner and Yuko Shimizu, I was recently recognized for what...
Sandy Kossin, American Illustrator
Sanford “Sandy” Kossin is one of the best. You may not remember him as he stopped working...
Painting the Foundation Series
The fiction of science, the speculation of possibilities created from scientific methods, has...
Painting Oz, Complete
Illustrating books like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz requires absorbing the text and adding your own...
Painting Oz, Cont’d
Visuals create stories. This is my mindset when developing a painting. Not just for images, but...
Character In Context Show
I’ve just experienced one of the most exciting contemporary exhibits of illustration in recent...
Recent Comments