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The Tip That Improved My Art – Artbook Launch April 8!

You might think this tip is about how to draw—a specific kind of stroke movement or a technical insight in digital painting—but that kind of advice is already all over my Patreon.

This tip is something different. In a word: writing.

Because of the type of business I’ve chosen my Patreon to be, it requires me to...

Practice 14 & 15 – Raw beauty, Bold colours

Hey everyone, briefly, here’s why I painted these practices.

• What I liked about this reference was the atmosphere created by the light and blue palette, and how it contrasted with the warm light in the ship. I felt I could use textured brushes to suggest complex shapes without spending too much time on details—especially in are...

  2025-03-28 16:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Are You the Best Artist Ever?

Are you the best artist ever? Probably not—yet. But believing you could be can be a powerful tool, especially while you're creating.

Art is about doing. Doubt slows us down; action moves us forward. On days when I'm full of doubt, I make no progress. But here's the truth: even the greatest artists have felt this way. Feeling flawed or st...

Practice 12 & 13 – Rough Strokes and Subtle Shadows

Hey everyone, here are some brief insights about the motivation behind my latest practices.

1. What struck me from the first picture was the contrast and textures in the trees created by the sunlight. I figure this would be a nice picture to be captured throughout very strong shape textures. The more I dive into my studies of traditional p...

Beyond Beauty: Attention in Meaningful Art

A few days ago, I was captured by how frost covered the streets. Tiny, bright dots of ice reflected the streetlights, turning the cold pavement into something beautiful but also "deadly". In a place full of that 'beauty,' at minus 30 degrees Celsius, I would freeze to death. This made me think about the relationship between beauty and danger. 2025-03-18 16:31:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Practice 10/11 - Smooth and Sharp Edges

Hey everyone, here are some thoughts about each process:

1. The reason I painted this dessert was because I liked the values, the smooth combination of yellows from the dessert itself, the cream, and the cherry that had a small highlight reflection that broke the smoothness. Plus, the strong contrast between the values in the metal was ver...

Preparing or Avoiding? The Artist’s Struggle with Action

Recently I've been studying fine art, especially contemporary art, and I've been exposed to some interesting ideas, like art not made to be understood but to be experienced. So while I dived more and more into the traditional art world—its business, politics, market, and artists—I felt an increasing need to participate, to try out some ideas...

Practice 8/9 - Texture and Movement

Hey everyone, here are some insights into my process during these practices.

1. What I loved the most in this picture was the reflection of the light on the horse’s fur. The gesture, of course, was very peculiar and presented a good opportunity for me to push the anatomy a bit further. Choosing a watercolor texture was very unexpected—...

The Art of Paying Attention

This morning, while walking on a cloudy, cold road toward my flat, I was overthinking issues I must address. For a second, I decided to look around, to listen as much as I could, and to see as much as I can. I noticed how difficult it was—so many things happening: workers, birds, cars, dogs, people, highways, trees. Every second, each one of t...

Practice 6/7 – Following Intuition in Form and Light

For my first practice, Mary and Her Little Lamb by Professor Antonio Bortone, I went back to my old days of painting statues. From this particular reference, I was drawn to the silhouette of the cloth on the child, the folds, the values, and the little story captured in this moment. It makes me wonder—if I’m such a great admire...

Painting as a Way of Knowing

I've been listening to lectures on psychology, and as a result, questioning my own behavior has become increasingly common. Why do I act this way? Why do I say that? The motivation behind each decision—it’s exhausting, to be honest, but also enlightening, especially when I arrive at a hypothesis that makes sense.

This brought me to que...

Practice 4/5 – Working for Style in Lines and Painting

Well, these process videos are getting dense for sure. What can you expect from eight hours of practice besides doggo sketches and landscape paintings? Well, I hope some useful techniques, but today I’d like to briefly write about style, considering two aspects—one about movement and the other about the approach to painting ...

Study Artists Wisely – Not Everything Is Intentional

Hello there!

Through these recent practices, I've noticed how my process has become very intuitive, without the need to look at other artists' work for inspiration—something I used to do during my beginner years. Back in those times, I think I was aiming to learn the authentic way artists I loved shaped reality—in other words, to learn...

Practice 3: Buddha, Waves, and Feet (Video & File)

Today, I finished an audiobook called Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung, in which he expresses his thoughts on the spiritual void many of us experience. This absence of meaning leads to existential issues that, in the past, were addressed through religious practices or shared belief systems. Jung argues that even as these...

Practice 2 – Children, Climbers, and Old Ladies

Hey everyone! Here are the process and files from Practice #2 I did last week. You weren’t expecting a post today, were you? Yeah, I guess I have more to share.

Why did I choose these references? Well, the child gave me a warm feeling—I think. To be honest, I’m not trying to structure too much thought behind these decisions.

Th...

Learning to Paint is Learning to See

We often struggle with execution—getting anatomical proportions right, refining colour tones, and shaping shadows. But is that really the core issue in our artistic self-discovery? Perhaps the real challenge is seeing the underlying structure that reality shares with our technique—how we break down what we observe into fundamental elements a...

Creating Without Limits: Art, Psychology, and God

Hey guys, here are some practices from the past few days. I'm currently drawing and painting for at least an hour per day, not focusing on specific topics, just picking pictures I find interesting and playing around. And by that, I really mean playing around. It feels surprisingly good. I think I really needed to just do. Don't...

Practice Series #1 Process and Thoughts

What does it mean to be okay? In art creation, I think it is the willingness to move forward regardless of the outcome, to embrace the unexpected, and when failure appears along the way, to accept it, learn from it, and keep going because tomorrow, you can try again as a new version of yourself.

2025-02-07 17:04:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Today, I Felt Like Practicing

Yeah, as I wrote in the title...

I've been feeling a little rusty, and I thought having some practice might be good. The wall of high expectations behind my art has been growing, and I think a good way to balance this is by simply doing a few practice sessions on a daily basis while I keep working on my next poem. This way...

Sketching From Imagination - My Advice

Hey everyone!

Sketching from imagination is mostly an exercise from memory, where the things you have experienced combine with strokes to create either a replica of reality or some kind of unique idea. But how do you get from the mental image to the canvas? How do you create something that feels truly yours?

When people ask "how can ...

Making Art for Broken Hearts - PSD File and Process Video

I spent a while thinking about this poem about love. I wanted it to be like a step-by-step tutorial for people with broken hearts. I thought of a poem or instructions to deal with suffering and pain, ending with something positive: take care of it and try again. In my opinion, life is about overcoming past situations and allowing yourself to be ...

Creating Art Every Day? Or Only When You Feel Like It?

A few days ago, I heard an interesting fact about Picasso. Over his roughly 75-year career, he produced around 50,000 works of art. That works out to about 1.8 pieces of art every day. Hearing this made me feel a bit envious, as it has been quite some time since I kept up a similar routine. These days, my "daily art" practice has gone down to ju...

Thoughts on Art Portfolios

So, a few days ago I spoke with a Patron (Cayetanax) about portfolio. To be precise the winner of the Art Compass (Discord challenge) from last December. You know, every month we do this challenge, and the winner can speak with me for an hour.

Although I have plenty of pieces in my portfolio, I didn’t feel very qualified to give advice o...

Reflections on Making Comics

I had my doubts about whether I was making comics or not, since comics, for me, were a more complex subject, and I was merely making a few frames out of a poem, kind of storyboard-like, I felt. But according to the definition of comics, I guess that's what I was doing.

That being said, my approach to the latest comics consists of trying to...

Immigrant - Process Video and PSD File

Hey everyone, here's the process video and file from my last poem called "Immigrant." This time, I just want to share the files since I figure me yapping might be unnecessary for your purposes, which is understanding my technical process. Nevertheless, if you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer. I hope you have a ...

Creating Meaningful Stories: The Immigrant Experience

Making stories had more room for exploration. But having more room also means more options and chances to make mistakes, being overwhelmed with many choices and getting lost quickly in ideas that are also interesting, yet out of the goal. I think I've worked on this poem and sequence for around a week, beating myself up to actually make sense of...

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Hello everyone!

Today, I just want to take a moment to wish you all a Merry Christmas! Whether you are surrounded by loved ones or alone, I hope you get to enjoy a delicious meal and some rest today.

To everyone who has supported my art journey, thank you!, I truly hope my tips and insights have been helpful to you. I'm currently wor...

A Gift for All Patrons

I'd like to make this post available to every Patreon for the rest of this month, as I was not very explicit in the previous post about what this sequence was all about.

I think I've never cried while creating something as I did with 'Recipe for Memories.' I was not looking to feel bad, but to capture something important to me.

A few...

Recipe for Memories

This little story hits very close to home. During the process, at first I was overwhelmed by the tragedy of existence and how people we love can sometimes disappear so dramatically. But by the end of the process, I was grateful for having felt such an experience. Now I see many things from a greater perspective, time for instance. Suffering is v...

Flesh and Digital Watercolor

The idea of "Pasion" was a consequence of my search for meaningful topics and a picture I saw of two dissected humans kissing. I believe the proper terms for these are anatomical specimens or plastinates.

From that point, I thought it would look...