Life is funny. I had Jin N Tonic over last night modeling for me. I let her choose three poses straight from Gil Elvgren, of whom I'm a huge fan of. She choose her three poses, and I drew them straight onto the watercolor paper. In three hours, we ended…
So you need to know how to avoid muddy watercolors? Well first off, what is muddiness? It's one of those you'll know it when you see it issues. Muddiness looks like, well, mud all over your watercolor painting. Once your watercolor painting becomes muddy, it's time to throw it out.…
I’ve been studying what good pinup art is for awhile now. Although I’ve been studying the Pre-Raphaelite masters like John William Waterhouse lately, I’ve always been a fan of good American pinup. American pinup artists during the so-called Golden Age of Pinups made their money in ads. The ads only…
Every once in awhile, you design something but you don't really like the end result. This happens to me all the time. I drew up these three mermaids but the actual paintings were less than satisfactory. So, I'm giving away the templates as templates. They're PDF files, so all you…
There's always that guy. He's got thousands of bucks laying around and expects everyone else to have money for expensive equipment. Then of course, he plays holier than thou when some of your equipment is less than gold plated. Well, I'm not that guy. I realize people have budgets. (I'm…