Mixing Colors With Crayons, Colored Pencils, or Watercolors: The Real-World Guide to Bold Color, Bad Habits, and Beautiful Accidents Let’s drop the lie right here: Color theory is not just for digital slicksters or highfalutin oil painters in their Parisian lofts. If you’re broke, weird, or a little desperate, you’re mixing colors with whatever you’ve […]
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75 Expert Topics for the Brave, the Broken, and the Bloody-Minded: Dark Art, Gothic Art, Erotic Art, Color/Light Theory (The Advanced Course for Artists Who Refuse to Behave) Welcome to the graduate-level, up-all-night, whiskey-breathed, adrenaline-dripping masterclass nobody else will teach you. If you’re here, you’ve burned through the basics. You’ve filled the sketchbooks, pissed on
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The Ethics Of Using Found Materials (Bones, Trash, The Bizarre): Or, How to Be a Scavenger, a Saint, and a Shameless Bastard—All at Once Let’s cut the small talk: If you’re making art from bones, rusty screws, graveyard glass, or whatever strange debris the world coughs up, you’re playing with fire—legally, morally, and sometimes spiritually.
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🎨 COMING SOON: 2025 Current Art Collection The latest gothic and steampunk artwork from Rustdawg73 This page will showcase the current 2025 art collection featuring: New Gothic Horror Series Industrial Steampunk Compositions Dark Fantasy Character Studies Mixed Media Experimental Works Digital Art Explorations All artwork code and gallery systems are in place! Currently organizing the
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Getting Your First Piece Ready for Instagram (And Surviving It): The Dirty Reality Behind Likes, Crops, and Not Losing Your Soul Let’s get straight to it. If you’re an artist in 2025 and you’re not thinking about Instagram—at least for a split second before slapping your work online—either you’re a luddite, a genius, or in
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Getting Over the Fear of Blank Black Pages: Exorcising the Void, Kicking Perfectionism, and Making the First Mark Count (or Not Count at All) Let’s not pretend. The fear of the blank page is a cliché for a reason, but if you’re reading this, I know you’ve felt its meaner, uglier cousin: the blank black
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Skulls, Monsters, and the Anatomy of Gothic Art: Not Just Halloween All Year Skulls. Monsters. Creeping things. Every gothic or horror artist worth their salt has a stack of these in their sketchbook. But what separates “cool skull doodle” from “holy hell, that thing looks alive?” Here’s how to take classic horror motifs from cliché
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Getting Past Writer’s Block on Monster or Sex Scenes (Or: How to Unleash the Beasts and the Bodies Without Wimping Out or Writing the Same Old Awkward Garbage) Let’s not sugarcoat it: Writing monster scenes or sex scenes is where writers choke, stall, or just plain freeze up. I’ve seen battle-hardened wordsmiths who can churn
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Mood Boards for Creeps: How to Find (And Use) Reference Without Becoming a Hack, a Hermit, or a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen Alright, time for some raw honesty—if you’re not using reference, you’re not growing. You’re just regurgitating the same tired mental images, the faded Polaroids of your own mind, and trying to pass it
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Ink Drawing Tips: Lines, Textures, and Confidence Ink drawing is like the tightrope act of art – there’s no safety net (eraser) once you make a mark. And yet, it’s incredibly rewarding because of the strong, expressive lines and high-contrast look you can achieve. I love the boldness of ink, whether it’s with fineliners, brush
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