People will always tell you to use a reference, but sometimes you have a photo right in front of you, and your drawing still turns out bad. You may think that you lack the manual skill, but the truth is, the manual activity of creating marks on paper accounts for just a minuscule fraction of…
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I received 24 beautiful entries this year, and as always, deciding who would win was a painful process. Luckily, this year I could choose two winners, and here they are! The first place: Alicja from Poland: The second place: Afley from Canada: I’ve already contacted the winners, and both Alicja and Afley should receive their…
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In digital art, your brush is the main tool for bringing your vision to reality. And while in theory you can draw anything with a simple round brush, creating a set of custom brushes designed for different purposes can make your workflow more efficient. Sketchbook is my favorite art program, but it’s not very popular,…
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Digital drawing is amazing, but you can’t do it efficiently without a graphics tablet. The smallest ones are not expensive, but no cheap is cheap enough when you don’t have your own money, and your parents don’t take your passion for drawing seriously. They may not understand that this “toy” can affect all your future,…
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If you don’t want your art to look flat, you need to shade it. But darkening certain parts is not enough—you need to know which areas need to be darker to create an illusion of depth. And for this, you need to understand how light and shadow works. You can do it by observing how…
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If you ask any artist how to become as good as them, they most likely will reply: “you need to practice”. And while this is true, it’s not actually very helpful. Because… how do you practice drawing? What exactly do you need to do, what actions are you supposed to take, and in what order?…
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If you’re interested in drawing animals, sooner or later you’ll hear from more experienced artists that you need to learn animal anatomy. That this is the only way to make your animal drawings realistic, or even semi-realistic. But what does that mean? How do you even start? Do You Need to Learn Animal Anatomy? Let’s…
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Most people are capable of producing great things in their imagination—interesting characters, terrifying creatures, breath-taking locations, and captivating scenes. But bringing these creations into reality always required skill, skill required practice, and practice required time and effort. Most people can’t afford that, so they had to accept the fact that they will never see the…
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There were 18 beautiful entries this year, and as always the choosing process was pretty painful for me, but after long consideration I managed to pick the winner: The winner of this year’s edition is Sonia from Poland, and this is her submission: I’ve chosen Huion H580X as the prize—it’s a nice medium size tablet,…
Read Post Digital drawing is amazing, but you can’t do it efficiently without a graphics tablet. The smallest ones are not expensive, but no cheap is cheap enough when you don’t have your own money, and your parents don’t take your passion for drawing seriously. They may not understand that this “toy” can affect all your future,…
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