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Advice About Speeding Up Your Drawing Process

...and a speed sketching demo.

If you are looking for a few tips about how to streamline your practice process this video will give you a few guidelines for starting that journey.

Don't...

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Cast Painting, Part 3.1, Real Time

The stunning conclusion to this direct and intense section of the lesson. 

All thats left is to consider the glazes and scumbles we will tackle in part 4.

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Cast Painting, Part 3, Real Time

This 1st part of the real time edition takes you to the half way point of the painting showing you every step and insight in the process. And it's loooooooooooong. About 3 hours.

Side note- I...

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Cast Painting, Part 3, Refined Edition

This section of the lesson is HUGE. The real time edition is like 6 hours long. The refined edition takes you through the process of painting the entire cast, top to bottom in 1 session!

Ther...

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How to handle ART COMMISSIONS like a PRO

Been wanting to make this vid for a long time. One of the hardest challenges you face starting out as a pro is handling the business side of a portrait commission- and the artistic side for that ma...

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Block In Bootcamp, Lesson #2, Structural Style

UPDATE: This video is the introduction to the structural style taken directly from The Block In Course. It is rigorously edited for clarity and many diagrams have ...

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How To Stretch Your Oil Paper

Hello Everyone! A couple of quick things:

1. Next Bootcamp lesson is coming up on the 22nd. We are getting into the structural style of block in. The last 2022-05-13 13:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post

What I Do When I Feel Stuck As An Artist

At some point we are all going to experience some kind of art block. 

Being a professional or a student the answer can never be: "I will just wait until I am inspired again."   ...

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Cast Painting, Part 2, Underpainting, Refined Edition

All the best bits in half the time- here is the refined edition!


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Cast Painting, Part 2, Underpainting, Real Time

In all the excitement about the Bootcamp Tier it's easy to forget about the cast painting project that we have going on...

Don't sleep on this technique! 

If you p...

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Block In Bootcamp, Session #1

In the long run we are going to cycle through several different styles of block in. Each one has it's strengths and weaknesses, rules and concepts, etc... 

This 1st stream will focus on ...

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Lady Agnew, Group Critique #2

There are a few things about color and value that always need adjustment at the end of a project. 

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How figure drawing can make you a better artist

This video is made in support of a course that I am working hard to get off the ground- but it's FAR from ready.

Eventually it will be available on my 2022-04-06 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Special Offer: Lesson Notes!!

These notes are compiled from the almost 3 hours of video content I recorded for this lesson. 

This synopsis will provide some clarification and enable you to reference individual sectio...

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Cast Painting, Part 1, Transfer Drawing, Real Time

In this real time lesson we are going to go through every mark and every decision in the process of making a proper transfer drawing. Run time is about 3 hours and 40 mins.

Cast painting is t...

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Cast Painting, Part 1, Transfer Drawing, Refined Editionn

Cast painting is the lesson that marks the transition from a students education in drawing to the beginning of their painting career.

In part 1 you are going to learn about transfer drawing. ...

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Block In Boot Camp, OPEN FOR SUBSCRIPTION

UPDATE: 

  • Subscription is open as of Friday April 1st, 2022 10:30 Oslo time
  • Materials list and more info coming soon
  • 1st session will go live on A...

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March News & Updates

Hello! Spring is about to happen! This is of particular importance to us here in Norway.

Here is whats happening on my Patreon right now:

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What Do You Get Out Of Block In Practice?

Among drawing instructors it is commonly understood that a drawing won’t really get any better than the block in allows- no matter how beautifully rendered.

Because of this...

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Studying with Sargent, Part 3, Real Time

In this lesson we will pass through the final stage of the painting- a treacherous territory. 

This 4 hour video covers every mark I made in this final layer of the painting- and comment...

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Studying with Sargent, Part 3, Refined Edition

Part 3 finally! Lets wrap this project up the right way- with well organised opaque brushstrokes and fresh color values.

A couple of unrelated things you should also know: 

There i...

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Bonus Special Offer: Lesson Notes!

So, what's this lesson notes thing all about???

Well, video content can be dense- even the refined editions of my lessons can be up to an hour long!

I wanted to create an easily scannab...

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Help me shape my courses to fit your interests!

Thank you all so much for al of your time and thoughtful input. The survey is closed as of 29 March, 2022.


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SBA Planes of the Head

I know that when seeing this model it would be impossible to know how much effort and time went into making it what it is. I worked with 2 different digital sculptors on and off for about 12 months...

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The Atelier Tier, St. Andrew, Group Crit

It's finally here! Our life with our new puppy has settled down a bit and I've had some time to produce videos again.


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January News & Updates

So, what isn't happening this month?

I mostly want to tell you about the lessons that are coming up but theres some other stuff as well.

1. My...

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The Atelier Tier, Color Sphere Painting

Here is the whole lesson- what you really need to get going on this is a well mixed set of color-values and your intentions set on painting clearly each color as you proceed through the phases of f...

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The Atelier Tier, Color Sphere Painting, Refined Edition

This is the refined edition of the (flesh) color sphere painting lesson. All of the important bits in less than half the time.

By the way: Vimeo, my video hosting platform, has lately had som...

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The Atelier Tier, Color Mixing

This is a lesson that will prepare you for your (flesh) color sphere painting project. Super important stuff- Color mixing is a whole different ball game (yes, that is a sphere pun).

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Web Address for Navigation Site Has Changed (updated)

UPDATE: The official web address for my navigation site has now been changed! 

There is a URL forward currently in place so even if you type in the old address it will t...

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