NFTs for Artists: How They Work, Where to Mint, and What to Watch Out For If you’re an artist in 2025, you’ve undoubtedly heard the buzz (and backlash) about NFTs. Perhaps you’ve seen fellow artists sell NFTs of their work for eye-popping prices, or conversely, stories of artists getting scammed or struggling to sell even
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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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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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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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Finishing Touches You’re nearing the end – time for those little touches that bring it all together. Step back and look at your piece critically. This is where dry, no-nonsense Rusty comes in: don’t let sentiment blind you. If something isn’t working (that neon green you thought would be cool looks out of place, or
Using Transparency And Opacity Creatively: The Alchemy of Layers, Ghosts, and Naked Truths Let’s drop the “art school” crap for a second—this isn’t about “glazing” like you’re prepping a damn donut. This is about power. Transparency and opacity aren’t just technical tricks, they’re the sharpest blades in your arsenal. The difference between a painting that
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