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Painting a Fantasy Image with a Model

Ashley Hurst — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:53:03 +0000

Painting and drawing fantasy imagery is fun and creative. However, one major challenge to doing so is a lack of references. Portrait and landscape artists always have a reference to work from. Unfortunately, artists that paint fairies and dragons do not. References give an artist confidence to know that what he/she is painting will be […]

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Plein Air Painting on a Tablet

Ashley Hurst — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:00:50 +0000

En plein air painting was popularized by the French impressionists during the latter half of the 19th century. En plein air is an expression meaning in the open air. Prior to this notion, artists typically painted in a studio, working from reference drawings. Today, many successful landscape artists still work in the open air while […]

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Draw a Fish: Pen and Ink Drawing with Digital Painting

Eugenia Hauss — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:34:01 +0000

Do you like combining various drawing media? Have you ever experimented with the tools that you have at your disposal to discover that the result is truly amazing? In this tutorial, we’ll create a special artwork. We’ll combine the advantages of traditional and digital tools. Hopefully, at the end of this post, you’ll be inspired […]

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Painting in Virtual Reality with Google Tilt Brush

Matt Fussell — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:29:55 +0000

DOWNLOAD FREE COURSE VIDEOS JOIN THE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR Get ALL of our courses, ebooks, live lessons, critiques, lesson plans and more today. LEARN MORE FREE COURSE VIDEOS It’s an exciting time to be a creator. Never in the history of mankind have there been so many new mediums available for us to express ourselves and […]

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The Results Are In. The Next Course Is…

Matt Fussell — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:05:14 +0000

As many of you already know, one of the goals of this website is to bring you the highest quality art instruction that covers a widely diverse spectrum of art making media, techniques, and subject matter. Along with this, it is my desire to design courses that exceed your expectations and reflect what you want […]

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Drawing Political Cartoons Using Procreate – Start To Finish

Ashley Hurst — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:25:11 +0000

Political cartoonist, Ashley Hurst shares his process for creating political cartoons using the app, Procreate. I remember the world before Photoshop, iPads and digital cameras. It was an analog world – cassette tapes and Cable TV were kings. Pencils and paint brushes were my tools. I was first exposed to an early version of Photoshop […]

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Digital Painting with Procreate

Matt Fussell — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:29:50 +0000

FREE COURSE VIDEOS JOIN THE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR Get ALL of our courses, ebooks, live lessons, critiques, lesson plans and more today. LEARN MORE FREE COURSE VIDEOS In the summer of 2016, I was invited along with several other artists out to Adobe in San Fransisco to do several days of live streaming with Adobe’s mobile […]

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What Course Would You Like To See Next?

Matt Fussell — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 13:18:21 +0000

“Creative Mixed Media” is now complete, making it the ninth complete course added to our library of courses – which are all available to members. The addition of this course brings the total of course video hours up to 35 with over 1000 pages of ebooks included. (Each course includes logically sequenced modules that include […]

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Drawing With Adobe Sketch

Matt Fussell — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:07:14 +0000

The Live Event Last week, myself and three other artists were invited out to Adobe in San Francisco. Our challenge was to create a complete drawing every day within about 1 hour and 45 minutes on the iPad Pro using Adobe’s mobile apps for drawing. The entire process was streamed live on Adobe’s Twitch channel […]

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Turn a Photo into a Painting for Free

Matt Fussell — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:53:41 +0000

A friend of mine recommended that I check out this new website that allows you to turn a photo into a painting. Best of all this site is free. (You can’t really beat free things.) I procrastinated visiting the site, since my work load is so heavy already, but I’m really glad I did. There’s […]

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