Vector Layer Your Line Art!
I’ve been using Clip Studio Paint for a few years now and the vector layer is one of my favorite features. While they aren’t true vector layers per se (you can’t render actual vector art with it), they make line art a breeze! (tl;dr here’s the video!) Erasing is Faster and Cleaner When you’re working…
30 Queer Artists to Celebrate Pride Month
Pride month has 30 days, so let’s talk about 30 queer artists that challenged the heteronorms of their times. (If that’s not a word yet, it is now!) These artists explored sexuality and gender identity, capturing their own queer experiences in visual media. 1. Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer was a German painter and printmaker in…
Jean-Michel Basquiat: 10 Things You Should Know
“I’m not a real person. I’m a legend.” — JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT 1. Basquiat learned anatomy because of an accident At age 7 Basquiat was hit by a car and his injuries were serious enough that he spent a considerable amount of time in the hospital. His mom brought him a copy of Gray’s Anatomy so…
I Bought Fake Body Kun (AGAIN)
I bought another set of fake Body Kun and Body Chan figures – but this time it was on purpose! Since we’re a few years removed from The Great Body Kun Tragedy, I thought that maybe the knock-offs have gotten better. They’re certainly more abundant! So I picked up a set of fake figures and…
How to Use Your Araneariums
Last time we built our five araneariums and now it’s time to learn how to use an aranearium. Here we reference Secret #16 – The Secret of the Retrospective Utilization of Araneariums. Things are going to get more intense and the process doesn’t get any easier. If you feel like quitting, just keep going! It…
Dalí Teaches Us About the Aranearium
Salvador Dalí was a super weird wildly eccentric person. Ten seconds of Google will net you dozens of articles outlining the better-than-fiction details of his life. He thought he was the reincarnation of his dead brother. He paid for his restaurant bills with doodles on the backs of checks, knowing that the doodle was worth…
What’s New for 2023!
Happy New Year! I hope the time goblins brought you AWESOME presents! It does kind of feel like there’s a little (or a lot of) uncertainty with this new year coming in, so my control freak brain made me sit down to figure out what the heck we’re gonna do with this website, content, streaming,…
AI Wrote This Post About Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe had such a prolific career and interesting life that one little blog post would not nearly be enough to talk about her. Still, that’s not the reason I did things this way for Artist of the Month this time. Life got all kinds of crazy in November and I needed help writing! What…
Prompt O’ Ween 2022
Day 19. That’s as far as I made it through Prompt O’ Ween 2022. Booooooo! Normally I would just power through and finish up that last little but late, but this year was just too dang busy. Honestly overall it’s been hard to keep up with regular stuff. Throwing a daily challenge on top of…
Marie Laurencin vs. Otto van Waëtjen – Which Artist Did It Better?
Happy Birthday, Marie Laurencin! Remember that husband of hers that thought he was the better artist? If you Google his name you get results for her work. Try it – his name was Otto van Waëtjen. We’ve already looked at their work side by side, but what if Marie actually painted one of his compositions?…
