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What DPI, Size, and Resolution are Best for Digital Art?

When the inspiration strikes, you don’t want anything to stand between you and your new drawing—so that window that appears right before you create a…

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Commissions Are Open!

If you need a drawing of a dragon, animal, or any other creature, give me a shout! The price estimates are currently as follows: I…

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How to Use a Clipping Mask in Sketchbook Pro 9.1

We’ve had the Alpha Mask feature in Sketchbook Pro for a while, which is a counterpart of Photoshop’s Layer Masks. With the new update, we…

How to Draw What You See

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…

Get a Tablet for Christmas, 7th Edition: We’ve Got the Winners!

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…

How to Create Custom Brushes in Sketchbook

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…

Get a Tablet for Christmas, 7th Edition!

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…

How to Use Blender to Learn About Light and Shadow

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…

How to Practice Drawing Using the Scientific Method

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…

How to Study Animal Anatomy

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…