We talked about how to learn how to draw from scratch in a previous post, but how to learn how to draw abstractions, how to draw intuitively how children do, we adults will have to learn, because children have the freedom of expression and create for the sake of the…
Almost all classical art schools are based on the idea that pupils and students are taught to reproduce reality. Academic drawing is the main discipline without which you cannot be considered an artist at all. When people evaluate someone’s drawings and artwork in the 21st century (well, at least today,…
They say that you need to draw every day to maintain your skills. Ideally, this is so. But just as there is no ideal gas, so, probably, there is no ideal artist who will paint every day of his life. Although no, Van Gogh immediately comes to mind (or call…
An artist is first and foremost a person, and considering his features is based on universal human characteristics. People are a fairly human-centered species, that is, people are primarily interested in people, as I understand it, this is connected with almost any kind of living creatures that are oriented toward…
Drawing, poetry, any kind of creativity is an intellectual process based on emotions. Sometimes it may seem that the inspiration has been exhausted, the muse is not visiting you, there are no ideas, everything is fresh and boring. Usually at such moments the artist suffers mentally, as he feels barren.…
Illustration is an auxiliary image to the text, which helps the reader to plunge into the atmosphere of the book. The subordinate position of an illustration in no way detracts from its significance and artistic value, and sometimes even vice versa – you will want to read a book only…
Task: to draw fantasy objects for the computer game Tangaria. Drawing style: pixel art (pixel art). Pixel graphics are a type of computer graphics where pixels (dots) are clearly visible. Typically, such graphics are used with a small image size, for example, this tileset runs at 32 by 32 pixels…
What is an illustration? An illustration is a schematic recognizable image of objects on a plane. The word illustration itself reflects the somewhat applied nature of such drawings, they are usually used to illustrate some text (book, magazine, website, advertisement, etc.). The illustrations themselves are usually sketches on paper, which…
Inspired by the experience of illustrators and artists around the world, I also decided to try selling my paintings on microstock. But what, I still draw every day, I already have hundreds of thousands of these drawings, many of them are very cute and I myself use them with pleasure…
You are wondering how artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and George Condo create their works of art in a matter of minutes, what is the secret that in one session a person quickly creates objects on canvas or paper that then delight (or even horrify) people . Why…