techniques – Kill Art Block Now!

Kill Art Block with Cover Design

Design goes hand in hand with illustration. One effective strategy that I use to murder art block dead is to[…]

I’ve written about using 3D tools within Photoshop before. This time around, I want to share something even more useful:[…]

Foreshortening is defined “as a way to portray an object as closer than it is or having less depth or[…]

In fitness training, if you repeatedly work the same muscle group each day, you can develop fatigue – and even[…]

This week’s art block killer is integrating 3D techniques into your 2D backgrounds. We’ll focus on Photoshop’s 3D Extrusion tool.[…]

A common refrain I hear from students is “drawing backgrounds is hard”. Let’s demystify this notion once and for all[…]

Portrait warm-ups are part of many artist warm-up exercises. Today we’ll look at expanding on those warm-ups by using distinguishing[…]

Idea Generators are incredibly useful tools to help combat art block. In this post, I’ll discuss some of my favorite[…]

Drawing from reference is a go-to exercise when I’m feeling artistically stuck. But I generally don’t stop there. Often times,[…]

In an earlier post, we looked at the use of shape to work our way out of art block. This[…]