Every artist strives to improve their artistic skills in order to draw better. This time, I’m going to share with you some weird and slightly silly ideas that really help improve the quality of your drawings. Fix your mistakes. When I draw, I make many mistakes and inaccuracies. Even the…
I got these ideas from my life experience, as well as on the basis of the ideas of other successful artists who tell me what helped them achieve heights in the profession and make good money on their work. Every aspiring artist wants his work to find an audience and…
An artist and illustrator who decides to choose the best digital drawing tablet for himself is faced with a large number of different devices that are quite difficult to understand. You need to have basic technical skills, evaluate the quality of computer stuffing, deal with the stylus, design, number of…
I just love the digital drawing program Krita – there are a lot of brushes for lineart (drawing with lines, usually in black). I got my favorite brushes, without which it’s hard to imagine lineart. You can make your own brushes, but we’ll talk about this separately. For now, I’ll…
A few years ago, I realized that I wanted to develop in digital painting. The first time I drew on an old Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, and in general it suited me for a long time. When choosing a laptop for myself, I firmly decided that I needed a…
Any aspiring artist and illustrator will sooner or later face the need to create their own portfolio β a set of their artwork with a beautiful presentable design. You will need a portfolio for study, to get a creative profession, to work, or to find clients as a freelancer or…
I have always thought that professional artists paint only from memory. So we sat down and drew an elephant. Or a landscape. Out of my head, without looking anywhere. And if an artist looks at a watermelon, then what is the difficulty in drawing it? You copy sketch from reality…
There are two versions of the iPad Pro 11 this year β with a screen diagonal of 11 and 12.9 inches with an M1 chip (8 cores, increases the graphics speed up to 40%). The new large iPad features an enhanced IPS Liquid Retina XDR (2732×2048) display. The appearance of…
I decided to return dried markers into working form, and ordered refillers β universal Copic Various Ink / Copic Ink (~ 9$ on Ebay). The main beauty of Copic markers is their refillability. The marker has run out, you shouldn’t throw it away. You can buy ink. And if the…
For several years now I have been making illustrations with professional Copic Sketch markers that I bought on Ebay – there was the lowest price for a set of 72 markers, plus I bought some flesh shades and a few light ones (see the earlier post for more details). Now…