I made another comic strip! This time it's about the importance of continuing to practice the exercises from lessons 1 and 2 regularly, and the idea that you're never *done* practicing your most basic technical skills. When I mark a lesson as complete, all it means is that you understa...
2016-06-18 17:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I recorded an illustration I painted recently - it was an unplanned thing, so it involves a lot of floundering to sort out compositional challenges and establish narrative. I also included a fair bit of commentary on my thoughts and a few tricks of the trade that I use frequently.
2016-06-11 01:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post
You can find the dump of 30 demos I've done as part of different students' homework critiques right here:
http://imgur.com/gallery/udZZ8
I posted this largely because free critiques are closed through June (reopening in July), so people would have a few more resources to work with. That said, for all of you fo...
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2016-05-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
So, as a thinly veiled marketing attempt, I decided that once in a while I'd like to create short, instructional comic strips about the simpler, but more common issues I see plaguing beginners. I figure comics tend to garner a lot of clicks, and they spread pretty easily, and they tend to ...
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2016-03-31 06:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately Patreon's post system won't allow me to include links with in-page targets. You'll have to scroll all the way down to the "Rotated Boxes" section, or you can copy this url into your browser:
http://drawabox.com/lesson/1/selfcritique#boxes-rotationvps
A lot ...
2016-03-27 00:29:02 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.patreon.com/nathanaardvark?ty=h
Came across this a while back - Nathan Aardvark's Patreon page has got a lot of great (free) daily tutorials/tips that you should definitely check out. Things ranging from anatomy to establishing depth in a scene, and so on - there's 77 tutorials there now, and ...
2016-03-18 20:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post
http://drawabox.com/lesson/1/lesson/es
Finally got around to formatting and posting the Spanish translation of lesson 1. If it generates interest and traffic, I'll look into getting more translated, and perhaps into other languages as well.
2016-03-13 04:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-03-01 07:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I only had six critiques to do tonight, and now it's 11PM and I've only done two. Why? Because I got distracted and ended up going from doing a demo to writing up this thing on how to approach drawing texture - something a lot of you have been asking about.
Now, mind you it's called the "Texture Challenge" at the moment, but it isn't actually one. I've been meaning to create a challenge ...
2016-02-04 03:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post
http://drawabox.com/article/construction
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2016-01-31 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
http://drawabox.com/article/ink
I talk a little (actually, a lot) about specifically why I promote doing my lessons in ink, specifically with fineliners/felt tip pens, instead of pencil or digital media.
2016-01-05 23:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
http://drawabox.com/article/motivation
My views on motivation, and why the very concept is something that distracts a lot of artists - new and old alike - from sharpening their skills.
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