"Good artists copy. Great artists steal." Pablo Picasso Some days, while working on things like color-correction or motion graphics (anything that can be slow-going), it helps the time pass to keep on a steady stream of YouTube. And you can't go too far into YouTube without running into the YouTuber mogul, Peter McKinnon. I [...]
Making of a Horror Short Film First of all, if you haven't seen it yet, watch it here: SEVER was the first short film I made with a crew. I had the help from Larry Pritchard doing audio on a previous short film Monster in the Car but in SEVER, I had sound, special effects, [...]
Discover Your Personal Art Style Why Are You An Artist Anyway? photo by Jason Frinchaboy I am an artist because I have an inherit need to express something creatively. I have an extremely strong impulse to create, and it's not rewarding to me unless what I create excites me. I guess that all artists [...]
How To Paint Dynamic Hands With The Structural Method Painting a realistic hand is made easy by understanding the basic structure of the hand's anatomy and rhythms of hand operation. Don't worry - this is not going to be a lesson in Metacarpophalangeal Joints and Lumbrical Muscles. I don't really know what those are and [...]
Self Portrait of an Artist - How To Paint A Portrait by Matt Abraxas In the final video for creating my yearly self portrait, I bring you along on a time-lapse demo to show you how to paint a portrait. I paint my self portraits each year around my birthday which is on March 25th. [...]
Solve Problems Early With Study Sketches Before Your Final Painting! Painting should be fun, but when it starts looking bad, the joy rapidly dwindles. What if with a little preliminary work, you can ensure a more enjoyable process and a better piece of art? This post is a continuation on the process of creating a [...]
Starting A Self Portrait With The Composition Study Continuing from my post earlier this week about creating my yearly self portrait and in time for Jerry's Artarama Self Portrait Contest, I am beginning the process with a composition study sketch. To read the previous post explaining the process of creating the general concept of the [...]
My Recent Video Tweeted By Jerry's Artarama I forgot to embed this in my last blog post concerning starting a self portrait. The next stage of the video will be up tomorrow where I actually create the Composition Study. And then over the weekend, I'll have the Color Sketches of the Self Portrait posted. Keep [...]
Painting A Self Portrait and Jerry's Artarama Contest Follow Along With Me In Creating A Self Portrait Over The Next Few Weeks Self Portrait Study 2012 Every year at around my birthday in March, I paint a self portrait. I've been doing for a long time as an exercise to see the progress [...]
How To Be An Artist I walk the dog most mornings and as I do, I listen to an audiobook. It’s my time to take in the day and prepare myself for whatever the day may bring. If the audiobook is a good one, the thoughts presented stay with me throughout my day. If the [...]
How To Draw Hair Easily - from The Studio by Matt Abraxas Lesson in How to Draw or Paint Realistically You can go straight to the video HERE Working on an illustration that involved a portrait of a woman, I had the challenge of creating a different hair style than I had on the model. Typically, [...]
30 Minute Painted Quick Sketch Improving How You See in 30 Minutes The Video for the Painted Quick Sketch is Below A common problem in painting is in understanding color. There are countless colors in paints, but no matter how many we use, we often still create a flat, convoluted mess. Paintings often lack [...]
How to Draw and Paint - Seeing as an Artist Learning to draw and paint begins with copying simple easy-to-follow art lessons, but when you find yourself wondering how to draw realistic people or paint a landscape as beautifully as you envision it, then you have to go beyond the basic step by step drawing [...]
Painting from a Snapshot Photograph At SmithKlein Gallery in Boulder, CO., last month, I painted a demonstration of how I sometimes work directly from a single photo. Before anything else, I do want to stress the importance of working from life as much as possible. In order to understand tonal value (the graduating differences from [...]
Painting Several Characters Using One Model In the 2 part video below, I show you how I used myself as a model for an illustration involving 4 adults. This can be very useful for illustrators on a tight budget and deadline, or for anyone who is having difficulty arranging other people to pose. An important [...]
