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2020 Self Portrait Project: Half Photo/ Half Painting

2020 Self Portrait Project: Half Photo/ Half Painting

I’m thinking about writing in the near future something to do with the philosophy of digital art vs. traditional art, but in a nutshell, I want to expand my knowledge and artistic ability as much as I can, so lately I’ve been learning more about how to add “digital artist” to my arsenal of titles.

Now any digital artist worth their salt knows that mastering masking layers is the key to…

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Coffee with Art: Drawing Hair

Coffee with Art: Drawing Hair

Good morning and hello!

I just wanted to share this:

It’s not super realistic. But I don’t care! It’s still fun!

I haven’t posted anything on this website in a short while, but I definitely have been keeping up with my 5am morning routine (only slept in once since I started waking up at that time again in December and that was only until 5:45!)

For those of you who might remember,…

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Three Hour Workday Challenge Day 1

Three Hour Workday Challenge Day 1

1. Learning Time (30 Minutes)

I finished the book, Show Me Your Work by Austin Kleon. This little book is a list of 10 steps to getting your artwork out there. Here’s what I learned today:

7. Don’t Turn into Human Spam– I thought “Human Spam” meant being one of those irritating people who is constantly trying to sell your work and push it on others, but it was a lot more than that. It was…

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Three Hour Workday Routine Challenge

Three Hour Workday Routine Challenge

Hey all! I hope you’ve had a wonderful Christmas! I had Boxing Day off too, so I couldn’t wait to get productive after two days of partying.

I decided to make a new challenge for myself. Since I’m able, I’ve decided to make a new 7 Day challenge for myself to help further my art business and abilities. I will be borrowing from my previous 7 Day Lazy challenge, but this more about time…

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Coffee with Art: Commissions and Character Portraits

Coffee with Art: Commissions and Character Portraits

So…

I am dumb.

Like, REALLY dumb.

Like I am so frustrated with myself for being so dumb!

Yesterday, I was researching how commissions online worked, and during my research, something just clicked for me. What’s my favorite thing to paint? Realistic portraits. Whenever I got paid to make a custom piece of art for someone, which ones were I the happiest doing? Somebody’s portrait…

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Coffee with Art: Painting Piggies

Coffee with Art: Painting Piggies

Cute Piggy. Tough Piggy.

Well! This is the 5th edition to my Source of Strength series. Today is the first day of my weekend after I started journaling again!

So, I’ve downloaded the pdf of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and I’ve been writing in a private journal about how each of his journal entries pertain to my own life. What lessons was he teaching himself that I too need to take away?

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Daily Dragon Day 1

Daily Dragon Day 1

Happy Saturday! It’s been a beautiful morning here, and I hope your weekend is off to a great start as well! Welcome to a challenge I’m going to call: Daily Dragon! (Just for this month though). I had so much fun with MerMay, that for the month of June, I’m going to continue with the fantasy art theme: drrrrragons! I used to love drawing them all the time as a teenager. Lately, I’ve been thinking…

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