Mixing Gray: Why Muddy Colors Happen (Or: Why Your Shadows Look Like Swamp Water, and How to Make Grays That Kick Ass Instead of Ruining Your Work) Let’s cut through the watercolor haze and acrylic fog: If you’re terrified of mixing gray, you’re not alone. Most artists—beginners, hobbyists, and a distressing number of “pros”—treat gray […]
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How to Sell Your Art on Merchandise (Print-on-Demand Guide) Overview: Turning your artwork into physical merchandise is a fantastic way to monetize your creativity and reach fans who love your designs. Print-on-Demand (POD) services allow artists to sell products like T-shirts, hoodies, posters, mugs, stickers, and more without ever worrying about upfront inventory or shipping
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Advanced Techniques for Pacing a Long Novel (or: How to Keep Your Reader Hooked, Tortured, and Begging for More Across 400+ Pages Without Selling Your Soul to the Outline Gods) Let’s drag the dirty secret into the daylight: writing a short story is a sprint, writing a long novel is an ultramarathon where the ground
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Building a Town or City From the Ground Up: The Brutal Art of Playing God (and Surviving Your Own Creation) Let’s start with the truth: building a town or a city for your story, comic, game, or fever dream is the closest you’ll ever get to playing God. It’s not just about drawing a pretty
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Drawing Everyday Objects: Bananas, Keys, Cups, and Remote Controls—Turning Mundane Crap Into Absolute Gold Let’s be brutally honest: Drawing skulls and dragons is sexy, but if you can’t make a remote control look convincing, nobody’s buying your fantasy art. The best artists I know can turn a grocery list into a damn still life. Drawing
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The Poetics of Violence: When Art Gets Bloody, Beautiful, and Absolutely Honest
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How To See Negative Space Like An Artist: The Art of Drawing the Sh*t You Usually Ignore
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Building Confidence With Your First Sketches: The Honest, Ugly Birth of Every Artist
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Keeping A Cheap, Messy Art Journal: Why Chaos Beats Perfection, and How to Make Every Page Your Playground
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Rituals for Artistic Obsession
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