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The Tip That Improved My Art – Artbook Launch April 8!

You might think this tip is about how to draw—a specific kind of stroke movement or a technical insight in digital painting—but that kind of advice is already all over my Patreon.

This ti...

Practice 14 & 15 – Raw beauty, Bold colours

Hey everyone, briefly, here’s why I painted these practices.

• What I liked about this reference was the atmosphere created by the light and blue palette, and how it contrasted with t...

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Are You the Best Artist Ever?

Are you the best artist ever? Probably not—yet. But believing you could be can be a powerful tool, especially while you're creating.

Art is about doing. Doubt slows us down; action moves us...

Practice 12 & 13 – Rough Strokes and Subtle Shadows

Hey everyone, here are some brief insights about the motivation behind my latest practices.

1. What struck me from the first picture was the contrast and textures in the trees created by the ...

Beyond Beauty: Attention in Meaningful Art

A few days ago, I was captured by how frost covered the streets. Tiny, bright dots of ice reflected the streetlights, turning the cold pavement into something beautiful but also "deadly". In a plac...

Practice 10/11 - Smooth and Sharp Edges

Hey everyone, here are some thoughts about each process:

1. The reason I painted this dessert was because I liked the values, the smooth combination of yellows from the dessert itself, the cr...

Preparing or Avoiding? The Artist’s Struggle with Action

Recently I've been studying fine art, especially contemporary art, and I've been exposed to some interesting ideas, like art not made to be understood but to be experienced. So while I dived more a...

Practice 8/9 - Texture and Movement

Hey everyone, here are some insights into my process during these practices.

1. What I loved the most in this picture was the reflection of the light on the horse’s fur. The gesture, of cou...

The Art of Paying Attention

This morning, while walking on a cloudy, cold road toward my flat, I was overthinking issues I must address. For a second, I decided to look around, to listen as much as I could, and to see as much...

Practice 6/7 – Following Intuition in Form and Light

For my first practice, Mary and Her Little Lamb by Professor Antonio Bortone, I went back to my old days of painting statues. From this particular reference, I was drawn to the silhou...

Painting as a Way of Knowing

I've been listening to lectures on psychology, and as a result, questioning my own behavior has become increasingly common. Why do I act this way? Why do I say that? The motivation behind each deci...

Practice 4/5 – Working for Style in Lines and Painting

Well, these process videos are getting dense for sure. What can you expect from eight hours of practice besides doggo sketches and landscape paintings? Well, I hope some useful techniques, but toda...

Study Artists Wisely – Not Everything Is Intentional

Hello there!

Through these recent practices, I've noticed how my process has become very intuitive, without the need to look at other artists' work for inspiration—something I used to do du...

Practice 3: Buddha, Waves, and Feet (Video & File)

Today, I finished an audiobook called Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung, in which he expresses his thoughts on the spiritual void many of us experience. This absence of mean...

Practice 2 – Children, Climbers, and Old Ladies

Hey everyone! Here are the process and files from Practice #2 I did last week. You weren’t expecting a post today, were you? Yeah, I guess I have more to share.

Why did I choose these refer...

Learning to Paint is Learning to See

We often struggle with execution—getting anatomical proportions right, refining colour tones, and shaping shadows. But is that really the core issue in our artistic self-discovery? Perhaps the re...

Creating Without Limits: Art, Psychology, and God

Hey guys, here are some practices from the past few days. I'm currently drawing and painting for at least an hour per day, not focusing on specific topics, just picking pictures I find interesting ...

Practice Series #1 Process and Thoughts

What does it mean to be okay? In art creation, I think it is the willingness to move forward regardless of the outcome, to embrace the unexpected, and when failure appears along the way, to accept ...

Today, I Felt Like Practicing

Yeah, as I wrote in the title...

I've been feeling a little rusty, and I thought having some practice might be good. The wall of high expectations behind my art has been grow...

Sketching From Imagination - My Advice

Hey everyone!

Sketching from imagination is mostly an exercise from memory, where the things you have experienced combine with strokes to create either a replica of reality or some kind of un...

Making Art for Broken Hearts - PSD File and Process Video

I spent a while thinking about this poem about love. I wanted it to be like a step-by-step tutorial for people with broken hearts. I thought of a poem or instructions to deal with suffering and pai...

Creating Art Every Day? Or Only When You Feel Like It?

A few days ago, I heard an interesting fact about Picasso. Over his roughly 75-year career, he produced around 50,000 works of art. That works out to about 1.8 pieces of art every day. Hearing this...

Thoughts on Art Portfolios

So, a few days ago I spoke with a Patron (Cayetanax) about portfolio. To be precise the winner of the Art Compass (Discord challenge) from last December. You know, every month we do this challenge,...

Reflections on Making Comics

I had my doubts about whether I was making comics or not, since comics, for me, were a more complex subject, and I was merely making a few frames out of a poem, kind of storyboard-like, I felt. But...

Immigrant - Process Video and PSD File

Hey everyone, here's the process video and file from my last poem called "Immigrant." This time, I just want to share the files since I figure me yapping might be unnecessary for your...

Creating Meaningful Stories: The Immigrant Experience

Making stories had more room for exploration. But having more room also means more options and chances to make mistakes, being overwhelmed with many choices and getting lost quickly in ideas that a...

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Hello everyone!

Today, I just want to take a moment to wish you all a Merry Christmas! Whether you are surrounded by loved ones or alone, I hope you get to enjoy a delicious meal and some res...

A Gift for All Patrons

I'd like to make this post available to every Patreon for the rest of this month, as I was not very explicit in the previous post about what this sequence was all about.

I think I've never cr...

Recipe for Memories

This little story hits very close to home. During the process, at first I was overwhelmed by the tragedy of existence and how people we love can sometimes disappear so dramatically. But by the end ...

Flesh and Digital Watercolor

The idea of "Pasion" was a consequence of my search for meaningful topics and a picture I saw of two dissected humans kissing. I believe the proper terms for these are anatomical specimens or plast...