Tutorial: Framing and Matting Your Art
To tell you the truth I don’t know too much about framing. But over the past few months I’ve been framing my art and I’ve realized that what once was merely a ‘neat’ piece of work suddenly becomes an ‘Amazing’ piece of Art once framed properly. I first started out just buying frames from the local [...]
Continue ReadingArt Tutorial: Spit Shading
Over the past few weeks several people have asked me tips on Spit Shading. I tried to convey to them that all my watercolor work was all new to me and that I didn’t really have any tips. Secondly, from almost everything I’ve ever seen that was referred to as Spit Shading I noticed it was almost exclusively Tattoo Flash. And [...]
Continue ReadingArt Tutorial: How to clean your brushes
I wanted to make this tutorial because, well, to tell you the truth I never, ever, clean my brushes. Yes, I’m that lazy. For the most part it doesn’t really affect my artwork at all, or at least not that I know of because I don’t know what the alternative (clean brushes) can do for me. But, I figured I could start saving [...]
Continue ReadingTutorial: Gallery Wrap Canvas Stretch Save MONEY
Lat week I wrote a little bit about how to stretch watercolor paper. So, this week I thought it was only fitting to carry on with that approach of preparing your canvas. I have always bought prestrectched canvas in a gallery wrap format before… until recently. I didn’t know how to stretch one myself and didn’t really care [...]
Continue ReadingTutorial: Prepare Watercolor Paper by Stretching
I have been working a lot lately with pen and ink and using them with tons of water…. later I realized I don’t really know what I’m doing. So, I decided to found out how to do the stuff that Iv’e already been doing. I initially started out just sketching something on paper and throwing down some ink on it afterwards. [...]
Continue ReadingTutorial: Pencil Realism
I had plans to go another diretion for a tutorial this week, but got derailed and then railroaded by the awesome tutorials being put together by JD Hillberry. I chose him as the Artist of the Week yesterday and knew I had to put his tutorials here on my blog for all you guys to see. As I mentioned yesterday, I’m not much of a pencil [...]
Continue ReadingTutorial: How to Draw Hands
Yesterday, I did an artist of the week on Burne Hogarth and mentioned that I only had one book left by him, which was Dynamic Hands. It made me realize that I should dig around for a good lesson on drawing hands. I know for certain that I can’t teach anyone to draw hands because mine really aren’t that great already. So, I found [...]
Continue ReadingTutorial: How to Draw Grass
I would like to write a weekly HowTo or tutorial on how to draw. But, since I’m don’t typically draw things that people would like to learn to draw what I instead plan to do is find some good tutorials around the internet that help me at times. I recently drew the above picture of Minute Maid Park in Houston. In it is just a small [...]
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