My previous post about Mr. Woe started me thinking about why I do this. I take tons of in progress photographs of my pieces as I make them, primarily for my own reference. I have somewhere around 8000 photo’s of my art pieces some of them are final pics most of them are in progress [...]
In the first part of this series (Online Art Critique: Giving Criticism), we looked at how to provide respectful, honest criticism when someone offers up a work of art for review. We also discussed ways to give constructive criticism and avoid unhelpful comments that could be misinterpreted by the artist. Now, we want to dive [...]
I dont know if other artists suffer from this but I do.
When painting a sculpt, I paint in multiple layers. I paint the primer coat on the piece, a base skin tone, various noodled skin tones, veining, so on and so forth. Building up layer upon layer to get a (hopefully) realistic skin tone. After [...]
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I will start this off by stating that this article is completely my opinion and what I have learned and figured out over time in my shop, and through lots of research.
I use primarily Liquitex Softbody Acrylics in my studio. I do this because Liquitex makes paints with very good pigment load, [...]