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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Intro to Acrylic Paints: The Least Intimidating Way to Start (For the Reluctant, the Broke, and the Seriously Impatient) Let’s get one thing out of the way—if you’re waiting for the universe to bless you with courage, cash, or the “right time” to start painting, acrylics are here to bulldoze your excuses. Forget oil’s drama,
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Learning From Horror Comics: Your First Inky Experiments (Or: How to Suck the Marrow From the Creepy Classics, Spill Some Ink, and Make Your Own Art That Haunts the Night) Nobody talks about horror comics in art class. They’d rather shove Picasso at you, or maybe Hergé if they’re feeling quirky. But if you really
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The Power of Letting Readers Interpret (Or: Why You Should Shut Up, Step Back, and Let the Audience Find the Ghost in Your Machine) Let’s get this out up front: If you’re the kind of writer or artist who needs everyone to “get it” exactly the way you meant, you’re in the wrong game. The
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Acrylic Adventures: Special Effects and Textures with Mediums Acrylics aren’t just for plain brush-on-canvas painting – they’re one of the most versatile mediums for trying out special effects and textures. Over the years, I’ve come to think of acrylic paints as LEGO bricks – you can build all sorts of things by mixing and matching
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How To Avoid Smudges (And When To Embrace Them): Drawing Dirty Without Destroying Your Work You ever finish a drawing, lean back to admire your brilliance, and realize your “masterpiece” looks like it was trampled by a greasy-fingered toddler? Welcome to the age-old war with smudges. Every pencil artist, ink junkie, and charcoal masochist has
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