More Tips for Beginning Artists
Long-time artist Carrie Lewis shares 4 more tips for beginning artists based lessons she’s learned the hard way after decades of creating art.
4 Tips for Beginner Artists
Life-long artist Carrie Lewis shares 4 tips for beginner artists. These tips are some of the lessons she’s learned over the years, and wishes she’d known when she was just getting started.
The Things Artists Tell Themselves
Today, I want to talk about the things artists tells themselves. Things that are untrue at best, and that hold us back at worst.
My Colored Pencil Wish List
Let’s have a little fun today. Something totally off topic as far as tutorials, discussions, and techniques. Let’s take a look at my colored pencil wish list. And yours, too, if you care to share. Let’s face it. No artist can have too many supplies. Remember the last time you …
Are Prismacolors Right for You?
There’s been a lot of back-and-forth about Prismacolor pencils over the last several years. Some artists love them; some hate them. After all the debating, you have only one question. Are Prismacolors right for you or not? Last week, I shared reasons you might want to try colored pencils. This …
How to Draw Like an Expert
Welcome to May, and another May Question-and-Answer month! Today’s question is from a reader who wants to know how to draw like an expert. That’s a good question, and one we all want the answer to, right? We’re all also looking for an easy way to draw like an expert. …
Getting and Staying Motivated
I recently conversed with a reader getting started with colored pencils. She’d wanted to be an artist from the time she was five, but one thing and another got in the way. Now that she’s making a start, she wanted to know my tricks for getting and staying motivated when …
Dealing with Disappointment
Dealing with disappointment is one of the toughest lessons most of us have to learn. It seems to me that artists have an especially difficult time because of the intensely personal nature of what we do. Our artwork is part of us. Artistic disappointments come in all shapes and sizes. …
Is Tracing Cheating? My Opinion
I love getting questions from readers (what blogger doesn’t?) The readers who ask questions also love getting answers. It’s long been my practice to answer each question as I receive it, personally and directly. But some of the questions are so good, I know other readers are wondering the same …
What are the Disadvantages of Drawing?
I don’t spend a lot of time checking blog statistics. Those kinds of numbers can be an addictive habit for me, and not a very productive one. But I do track things like search engine terms (the words and phrases people use that lead them to the blog), and the …
