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December 2012
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October 2012
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“Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.”
—A wonderful article: Gary Panter’s Drawing Tips (via the Drawn blog). Definitely worth a read for artists!
September 2012
3 posts
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
—― Chuck Close (via maisonimmonen)
August 2012
8 posts
“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
—The above quote is by Edison, but Disney Feature Story Supervisor Paul Briggs is dropping some major knowledge over at his blog (in addition to great drawings) about making it in the entertainment industry! Check out the full post on his experience here. The part I particularly identified with: “The true answer to your question, sadly, is I’ve never been happy or satisfied with my work. I’ve always been confident but never satisfied. I’m passionate and love it and have a strong desire to improve and grow everyday. I’m an ARTIST which means I’m an emotional beast.” This really hits home for me. The high of a job well done is always much more brief than the overall feeling of inadequacy… but the really successful artists that I have known have figured out how the channel that feeling of inadequacy into the drive to do better. Art is struggle, and it should always be a struggle… otherwise you’re not learning. So draw everyday! Fight the good fight! Just keep swimming!
July 2012
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June 2012
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: Illustrators: Creative tips & resources - Brushes and Textures →
emmelinedraws.tumblr.com
The new article I’ve written for Ten Paces and Draw all about using custom brushes and textures in digital illustration! There’s some awesome contributions and insights into the work of amazing illustrators like Kali Ciesemier and Andrew Lyons - as well as a chance to win a hardback, signed…
Check it out! There’s some good links and tips!
A very excellent gathering of resources and information! Thanks Emmeline for putting it together and Kali for pointing it my way!
See Sam Sketch... at Nickelodeon!
If you’re wondering what I’ve been doing that has me so busy I can’t post on my tumblr, you should check out the little doodles I’ll be putting up on the Nick Artist Program Facebook page! I’m posting daily five-minute doodles every morning at 11AM there - just funny things that have happened to me so far at Nickelodeon. I’m having an excellent time here at the Nick Animation Studios - hopefully soon I will have time to upload some of my sketchbook pages to the blog! Until then - go to the Nick Artist Facebook page for glimpses into my day! Keiko, my fellow Nick Artist, is also going to be posting daily on the page in the afternoons! Check it out!
