In this video, I talk about how art makes a difference in people’s lives, but for some reason, not everyone sees that or believes it. I share three examples of how art has helped me and what it’s done for me as evidence to prove my point.The first example is my favorite television show, Monk….
Miss Boughton is the first dragon I repainted. She also probably had the biggest changes. As you can see I reworked the background and I like how the new one gives a better sense of the world she lives in. With Lady Delvina that art director gave me a really good critique, which was that…
I’m trying something new, or rather, new-ish.
Having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card! —From Arthur the animated series. When I was really small my mom took us to the library quite often. I loved it, and it stuck. She used to say we couldn’t get our own library cards until we were able to drive ourselves to the…
It’s okay to not know what you are doing. You know when it feels like everyone knows something that you don’t? When I was in college I had to take a few classes in digital illustration. This was a relatively new thing. When I started college in the year 2000 photoshop was ten years old…
When I was in 7th grade I had an art teacher. A good one. Her name is Syndey and this is her website. She taught us how to draw from the book “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain”, which improved my skills immensely. She also said we should keep a sketchbook, and told…
A Story about our strengths and weaknesses. “Oh my holy heck, you can draw? I wish I could draw. My brother (or mother or aunt) can draw but I didn’t get that gene.” If you are an artist you’ve definitely heard something like this before. I can’t even tell you how many times people have…
Have I mentioned how thrilling it is to sit down with a sketchbook and watch TV? It might be one of my favorite things especially if there’s chocolate. A few months ago, while I was still building this website and planning a class for illustrators I found solace in an evening of tv watching while…
It can be hard to be a freelancer. So here’s a story to help you when you know you should get paid more but you aren’t sure how to make it happen. Once upon a time my husband and I wanted to take the disposal out of our kitchen sink. Ours wasn’t running well, disposals…
What influenced you then can still influence you now. What did you love to draw when you were little? I’m assuming you loved to draw. Not because all kids love to draw, but because if you are here, on this blog, reading this post chances are pretty good you loved to draw. One thing I…