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Realistic Spyro Painting Process

I’ve never played Spyro, but recently I’ve been watching my husband play the reignited edition and I started to wonder how Spyro would look if…

Bird Wings Animation: Tutorial + Template

Some time ago I started to create a simple animation of bird wings, just to remind myself how they work. I worked on it in…

Red Dragon Head: Process + Video

Recently I found this photo of earless monitor lizards, and I loved how dragon-like their scales looked, so I decided to study them. But to…

Amur Tiger Painting Process: How to Paint Thick Fur

After I painted Scar with a very quick method, I was wondering if it could be used for longer hair as well. Short answer: no.…

Dragon Head: Process

I’ve painted this dragon without any real plan, but it looks like I found a cool method for painting scales without any special ambient occlusion…

The Fastest Method of Digital Painting

This is not going to be a full fledged tutorial, but rather a quick presentation of how digital painting can be tackled for the fastest…

Harpy eagle tiger

I finally found time to color this drawing. I should create artworks this way more often—traditional drawing and shading, then digital coloring. It makes things…

Get a tablet for Christmas!

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…

Inktober drawings sale

Last year I hosted a Get a Tablet for Christmas contest—a chance for young, poor artists to get into digital art. I bought two models…

Tutorial database

I have written so many tutorials over the years that I lost count. I will be adding them all gradually to a gallery on this…