A common refrain I hear from students is “drawing backgrounds is hard”. Let’s demystify this notion once and for all[…]
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Kill Art Block Now with Enclosed Shapes
Kill Art Block NOW with Variations on a Portrait Study
Portrait warm-ups are part of many artist warm-up exercises. Today we’ll look at expanding on those warm-ups by using distinguishing[…]
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Kill Art Block NOW with Idea Generators
Idea Generators are incredibly useful tools to help combat art block. In this post, I’ll discuss some of my favorite[…]
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Kill Art Block NOW with Themes!
Drawing from reference is a go-to exercise when I’m feeling artistically stuck. But I generally don’t stop there. Often times,[…]
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KAB.N! Interview with Victoria Ying
1. Who are you and how long have you been working as an artist?My name is Victoria Ying and I’ve been[…]
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KAB.N! Interview with Gerimi Burleigh
1. Who are you and how long have you been working as an artist? I’m Gerimi Burleigh. I’ve been working[…]
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KAB.N! Interview with Allison Perry
1. Who are you and how long have you been working as an artist?My name is Allison Perry and I’m[…]
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Kill Art Block NOW with Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee is known the world over for his success in bringing Kung Fu to the west by starring in[…]
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Kill Art Block Now with a Triangle!
Building off of our previous discussion on head shapes, let’s take a closer look at how we can push our[…]
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Kill Art Block Now with Vintage Objects
In an earlier post, we looked at the use of shape to work our way out of art block. This[…]
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