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ART/VIDEO – Sketchbook Tour 04

Once I got over the first breakthrough art hump, my sketchbook drawings began to look a more consistent.  Not everything is great.  However the exploration in drawing began taking shape and something experiments produced some interesting results.

In this sketchbook tour you’ll find a lot of experimenting with exaggeration.  You’ll see me design and develop some interesting comic ideas, as well as the origin of my Black Terror Kid comic.

I also draw some fellow artists in it and draw their original characters. The link to the artist are below.

I hope you enjoy this tour as much as I enjoyed looking through it.

Artist Mentioned In This Video

Javier Hernandez and El Muerto: https://javiersblog.blogspot.com/

Raul Aguirre: https://manvsart.com/

Jim Lujan: https://www.youtube.com/user/jimlujan

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ART/VIDEO – Postcard Giveaway, Knowing You Plateau, And More Patreon Rewards Dec 2018

In this month’s video, I talk about quite a few things about developing and improving as an artist.  Not only that but all my patrons get mentioned today by name.

The topics I’ll cover in the this are:

• Comic updates
• Character designs
• Knowing when you’ve hit an art plateau
• Getting worse before you get better when exploring new approaches to drawing
• Postcard giveaway.

Enjoy!

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ART/VIDEO – Real Artists Don’t Starve Book Review

If you think that being an artist isn’t a way to make a living, then this is the book for you.  This book is all about dispelling the myth of the starving artist.

In this video, find out what inside and what it does to help you go from starving artist to thriving artist.

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VIDEOS – Sketchbook Tour 02

This is the sketchbook where my drawings began to make a turn for the better.  This is a sketchbook of many breakthroughs.  After years of being a pro, I still didn’t like most of what I did until this sketchbook.

In the first Sketchbook book tour, you saw me study, try and fail.  This is the sketchbook where everything I worked for started to pay off.

However, before I could get to this point, I had to do what I did in the previous sketchbook, fail a lot.

There’s some light censorship in this video. Nothing too crazy. If you’d like to see the uncensored version you can view it here via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/22638602

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Sketchbook Tour 01

Sharing one’s sketchbook feels like inviting someone to you’re bathroom as you take a shower. You feel very vulnerable and exposed.

At least this is how I felt sharing mine.  I did it anyway though, and I’m going to do it more than once.

This the first of my sketchbook tours where I share some of my sketchbooks with the world.  Something I never expected to do and was never intending to do.

Still, I thought that it would be helpful to my follower to do so for four reasons:

• It shows that drawing is a process. It’s not just handed to you from the heavens.
• It shows how a sketchbook can be used. But it isn’t by any means the only way to use one.
• It may inspire you to use a sketchbook as well.
• It shows progress.  It shows where I was at one point compared to where I am now.

I hope you get a lot out of this video.

For the uncensored version of this video, you can watch it here if you’re a Patreon patron:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/22336558

The Sketchbook

The type of sketchbook shown here was a Canson Artist Series Sketch Book Paper Pad, 9 x 12 Inch:

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ART/VIDEOS – The Four Draw Fu Chambers Of Imaginative Drawing

Imaginative drawing is perhaps one of the simplest and hardest things to do.  It’s simple because, most of us as kids, drew from our imagination.  It came easily to us.

We didn’t judge ourselves, we just did it.

Drawing from our imagination with the quality that we want, on the other hand, can get tricky and frustrating.  Even if we master the skill of observational drawing, imaginative drawing can still be tricky.  This is because there’s a specific group of skills that have to come together to draw from your imagination well.

This is why I made this video.  I give you a list of the four skills you need to hone to get the results you want.

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