Hated school. Could not find friends that are similar to me, was a little weird I guess. Just felt different. Only thing from school that I loved was after school art class where I could draw and there were other people drawing around too. Well, I think I liked the physical education class too, …
Don’t try to find your art style, instead do this
As probably most of the younger artists I’ve also tried to “develop” my own artistic style and in order to do that I’ve watched some YouTube videos and searched for information online. I wanted to be unique artist, to have my own style, to stand out from the crowd, because I’ve read that only …
How to make your own textures for your artworks
In this blog post I will share how I made my own textures to use in my artworks. The techniques, which I’ve used, to make some of my own textures are: Taking photos of gravel, dirt, ground, trees, sky; Using a scanner. You could draw some rough lines, ink splatters or crumple the …
How to prepare black and white artwork with halftone for 1 color screen printing using free GIMP software?
In this blog post I will show you how to prepare your black and white artwork which has halftone elements in it for 1 color screen printing. Technically the artwork has 2 colors (white and gray, because of halftone), but we can make it 1 color, but still look like it has 2 when …
5 ways to get art commissions
How to get art commissions? In this blog post I will share 5 practical ways that I’ve used to get art commissions and that worked for me. 1. Fiverr.com, 99 designs.com, freelancer.com, upwork.com – all these websites provide listings of freelance art projects where you can apply to work on them. There is …
How to provide value with your art 2
So I am constantly watching successful people videos, listening to podcasts, trying to learn what they are doing good and I came upon this video: At the time I am very interested in the art business, how to monetize your art, how to provide value and similar questions. In this blog post I wanted …
You will never be fully ready
In this short blog post I want to talk about being ready to start something, for example business, commissions, quitting your current job and finding a new one, starting a YouTube channel, it can be whatever that you want to start. You just not feel like you are good enough, like you are just …
How to vectorize your pen and ink drawing?
Sometimes customers insist on having vector file for printing. Even though I am not a fan of vectorizing your hand drawn pen and ink drawing, because it distorts the image a bit and removes quite a lot of the details as well. Vectorizing your drawing digitizes it in a way that’s not very pleasing …
How to trademark check t-shirt ideas?
So you have got an amazing T-shirt idea – alien head drawing with a bold font saying “I want to believe”. Everyone who loves X-files will love it and the design will be killer right? That’s awesome and it might be, but you have to perform a trademark search before you use that saying …
What happened when I stopped caffeine ingestion
So one day I’ve decided to stop drinking coffee and black tea (and caffeine in general), just to see what happens to my body. I’ve also watched some videos on Youtube that caffeine is not very healthy on your body actually and it is a “drug” for sure. I also love self improvement of …
