If you’re looking for a powerhouse drawing program, you can’t go wrong with Clip Studio Paint. I’ve been doing some Clip Studio Paint Tips for beginners on my YouTube channel to help you get started. What’s the difference between Clip Studio Paint Pro and EX? Clip Studio Paint comes in two versions, Pro and EX. […]
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While Twitch is cracking down on bot followers and those pesky chat bots, Google is censoring YouTube livestream chats. Chats by real people who say possibly misleading and erroneous statements in a casual conversation. At least as well as an AI can gauge such things. I first ran into this last night while on The […]
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In my experience, no one art book on anatomy or perspective or whatever else your struggling to learn will be enough. Bits of one will make sense to you with one explanation and parts of another will be better for other things. You need a shelf full of books, and hopefully each one has something […]
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My 102 degree fever stuck around for almost a week and a half. So, of course, to make myself feel better I spent an unhealthy amount of time staring at my phone.
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I have a soft spot in my heart for Disney’s The Black Hole. Released in 1979, it’s a weird mix of designs. Maximilian (above) is still a pretty intimidating robot. He also is responsible for a shocking death scene…at least for a 7 year old kid in the early 80s. He drills through Anthony Perkins […]
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I’ve spent a lot of time trying to promote my work online. Now that I think about it, I’ve been at this for 20 years. Like most creatives, I’m not a natural marketer. It’s a skill I’ve had to learn over time. I think anyone can get better at it. You just need to put in a little effort and some trial and error. After all this time I can tell you one thing I’ve discovered. Dear Artists, Social Media is not on your side.
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I did a few classic cartoons as warmup on my morning YouTube livestreams this week. The Fred smashing the Adobe Character Animator logo was me venting my frustrations at that counter-intuitive program. In the end it’s pretty much only good for triggering between frames over an audio file. But even then it takes FOREVER to […]
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The apocalypse is very dusty. Everyone should have their goggles ready. This is another live stream sketch session. I do them during the week around 10am. Subscribe and chat with me while I draw!
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I generally start out my morning livestreams with no idea what I’m going to draw. Recently, the theme ended up being “off-brand Batman”. The one above ended up kind of looking like Sir Michael Caine. Or…maybe alternate universe Michael Caine. And the last one looks a bit like Booster Gold. Okay, it’s pretty much Booster […]
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On my YouTube channel I did a few livestreams where I did robot character designs as an exercise. Starting with basic shapes that lent themselves to interesting robot designs was the starting point. After all was said and done writing the brief descriptions was a fun extra that let my imagination come up with goofy […]
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