It was a tie. And I'm calling the tiebreaker and going with this one. Inner Landscapes.
The tie was between this and sculpt. and selfishly I wanted to do sculpt because I really want an excus...
2023-12-02 02:33:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I feel like this prompt made people self conscious and/or confused. I confused myself with it. As I was getting the submissions together I noticed that the official name of the prompt was "Bad Draw...
2023-12-02 01:59:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I will explain what is going on in this picture in a future post. But I had to share these little guys.
2023-12-01 07:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
William Blake is primarily known as a poet but he was equally a visual artist working in engraving and painting. He was born in 1757 and died in 1827.
I would describe William Blake as ...
2023-11-30 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI'll choose the winner on Dec. 1st. Then the prompts will be do on New Years Eve!
The Bad art submissions are due tomorrow!
One thing I remembered from those existential crisis portraits and skull studies that I did earlier this month is that painting is so much easier when for me when I have references.
This is the (sort of) Demo that I did for the Bulletism lesson in the Intro to Drawing Bad Art Course. Even though this is part of the Intro to Drawing Bad Art Course, which is usually only availab...
2023-11-28 01:23:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my submission for the Bad Art Prompt, which is due in 4 days!
Submit through the link or email to scu...
2023-11-27 03:52:51 +0000 UTC View Post
When learning the cold hard fundamentals of drawing, such as perspective, value and color theory, we can forget the fun, playful spirit that made us pursue art i...
2023-11-25 20:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post
My First ever sculpture! Made with sculpey and painted with acrylic paint. about 4 inches tall.
I called him "boody gollum" because he has eyes on his butt.
Like I mentioned befor...
2023-11-25 01:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a drawing I did when I was a kid. I keep it in a frame on my wall as a reminder of how much I love art.
2023-11-23 21:43:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Ink
Colored pencil
Gel pen
On paper
2023-11-23 07:37:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight I’ve been drawing this and listening to a very interesting podcast about creativity and the human mind to prepare for a new art life and lives video.
Now I’m going to play a litt...
2023-11-21 08:23:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve played around with clay and ceramics a handful of times. This is the first real full length sculpture attempt.
I’m using Sculpey. I started with some basic human figure (sort of) sh...
2023-11-20 00:50:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is about how I work through certain painful blocks with my art.
I called it "self portrait" because I end up painting a self portrait, but also because the video itself is a ...
2023-11-18 22:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I got a new guitar recently and this is the first riff I wrote on it. I want to start incorporating it more into my beats. It also just feels relaxing to play it.
The colors I used on t...
2023-11-17 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
A few people have expressed their being stuck with the “bad art” thing. I think I have a straight forward solution. Take a medium, or technique or style of art you’ve always wanted to try. An...
2023-11-17 06:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll probably do more still life's of this skull from different angles and start selling them as studies.
The music for this one is just me Strumming my guitar in a weird tuning. <...
2023-11-16 01:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I bought this skull for myself for my 30th birthday. I keep it on my desk as a reference but I’ve never done a straight up still life painting of it.
I have a new longer video coming soon ...
2023-11-15 07:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the finished painting. I made her take a bunch of selfies in very specific lighting haha. She obliged.
2023-11-14 02:25:11 +0000 UTC
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This felt really good.
Here's the reference I used. I was really focused on getting interesting lighting on my face.
In the painting, and in my art in general, I'm really focused on bei...
2023-11-13 01:16:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Some art my young students made for an upcoming art competition. These are 5-8 year olds.
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2023-11-11 21:20:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I saw this weird mannequin head on a stake among the trees in a parking lot. I took a bunch of pictures and painted it in gouache. Here's a video of that process. I also talk about keeping a sketch...
2023-11-10 22:46:38 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an Art Life Update about the recent art slump I slipped into. How I attempted to crawl out of the slump by painting a simple portrait. How that backfired. And How I eventually learn...
2023-11-10 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
About a year ago I saw this mannequin head on a stake in a parking lot surrounded by trees.
I found those pictures back in June or July and did a painting of it.
Now in my current art ...
2023-11-09 02:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I bent over to pick up my cat’s water bowl and I got this sharp shooting pain in my lower back and it’s been hurting all day.
Luckily I was able to just lay down for most of the day...
2023-11-08 01:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Here’s some watercolor sketches I did recently. If you can call them that. These were to force myself to paint when I really didn’t want to. In a way they’re automatic paintings where I just ...
2023-11-07 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I did these two at the gallery last night while I was sitting there trying to sell some art
2023-11-05 20:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Just not feeling it lately. Worked pretty hard on the underpainting of this guy. Then ended up just picking up the pallet, smearing it all over the canvas, spraying water on it with a spray bottle,...
2023-11-04 22:15:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I was hanging out at the Hive last night for the downtown LA artwalk and ended up just painting this.
2023-11-03 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post