Top 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.
Reflected Light and How it Affects Art
An understanding of reflected light and how it affects art is a valuable addition in your art toolbox no matter your subject or medium.
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.
5 Drawing Exercises with Curving Lines
5 drawing exercises with curving lines to help you improve line control for graphite, colored pencil, and other forms of drawing.
Reasons to Watch Videos of New Art Mediums
Today, I want to go off topic just a little bit and share a few reasons why every artist should watch videos of new art mediums once in a while. As some of you know, I write freelance as well as draw and sometimes paint. I write about colored pencil …
How to Find the Best Composition from Digital Photos on PhotoShop
How to Find the Best Composition from Digital Photos on PhotoShop describes how to try different compositions digitally before putting pencil to paper.
Process Digital Reference Photos in Photoshop
Knowing how to process digital reference photos is as important as knowing the best art materials. In this post, artist Carrie Lewis shows you how she makes basic adjustments using Photoshop 7 on a Macintosh.
Squaring Up Photos in Photoshop
Have you ever wished there was some way of squaring up photos in Photoshop? Especially photos of drawings that you want to use for marketing or your portfolio? Cheer up! There is! One of the more annoying aspects of using the computer for artwork is getting perfectly square photographs. Whether …
Getting Started As a Portrait Artist
So you want to be an equine artist. How can you get get started?
