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Practicing With Student Grade supplies vs Professional Supplies
Ok my dear and loyal readers, you may have noticed this was not done on the day I said I was hoping to have it done. Cut me some slack I had surgery and a rough few days, but I'm doing better now, so as promised here is my feelings on whether or not you should practice with any ol' thing you can get your hands on or use professional quality stuff even for practice. Use the best quality you can afford. Quality products are easier to use than most student grade stuff. It takes way less layers of a...
More Artist Lessons Learned
This has more to do with marketing and social media etiquette then technical skills. One of the first things I learned about was how not to spam my family, friends and fans with multiple posts that are the same all over the place. There are a few reasons for this, It is annoying first and foremost! If you post the same link or picture every 2 hours throughout the day, people are just going to ignore you or worse yet, block you! What is relevant on one platform is not always relevant on another. Seriously tagging people to thank them...
First Year of a New Artist
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So if anyone thought a year of doing art on a part time basis, in multiple medias was going to make them a master, I really hope they think twice. I started this journey a year ago and because I work full time, I only have 20 hours a week in a good week (and getting nothing else done) to hone my skills, I really thought I would have come along further along but I get it, I am just not putting enough time into it. What have I done in this year to improve? 1.) Draw - I picked...