5 ways to avoid smearing when you draw.

5 ways to avoid smearing when you draw. No matter how good of an artist you are, accidental smear and smudge will happen when you are drawing with graphite pencil or chacoal. It is hard to avoid, all we could do is to be careful and keep the accidental smearing to the minimum. The more experience you are, the more you will learn how to deal with it. I just got a few e-mails asking me this

Digital Painting Technique, using brushes in Photoshop

Digital Painting Technique, using brushes in Photoshop. Brush is a very essential tool for painting. Without it, there would not be a painting. In traditional oil painting, there are many different kind of brushes for you to pick from. Though the most common brush many painters use are simple round and flat brushes. With just two simple kind of brushes, good painters can achieve an amazing

Achieving looseness in painting, digital painting thought

Achieving looseness in painting, my thought on digital painting. Many people asked me how did I make my digital painting in Photoshop looks so traditional like and loose. How do I make my piece look so analog instead of look very digital? Well, I've been thinking about it for a long while. As I analyzed how I paint and doodle around in Photoshop with my Wacom tablet and pen. I was thinking

10 ways to overcome artist's block, get back creativity!

10 ways to overcome artist's block and get your mind back to creative spot. It’s very common, but devastating moment for an artist to feel they’ve lost their inspiration, to encounter a creative block. But suffering from artist’s block doesn’t mean you’ve lost your imagination or ability to execute cool stuff. Good news is, over years of working in professional concept art environment I found

10 ways to overcome artist's block, get back creativity!

10 ways to overcome artist's block and get your mind back to creative spot. It’s very common, but devastating moment for an artist to feel they’ve lost their inspiration, to encounter a creative block. But suffering from artist’s block doesn’t mean you’ve lost your imagination or ability to execute cool stuff. Good news is, over years of working in professional concept art environment I found

Concept artists VS Illustrators, what make them differ

I just found a really good article today. I thought about it accumulate some thinking write some stuff and thought I would share it with you guys.The line often blur half of the time between being a Concept artist and an illustrator.Good illustration doesn't make it a good concept art piece to solve the puzzle.Likewise, great concept art piece doesn't make it a decent illustration either.So what

Drawing to Painting transition Mass drawing method

How to transition you drawing style into painting.A lot of people having a hard time transitioning from drawing into painting.I can really understand because drawing and painting to me use different mentality to execute.* Drawing (verb) is the act of making marks on a surface so as to create an image, form or shape. Mostly using define lines.* The produced image is also called a drawing (noun).