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Ideas on improving shading(drawing and tattoo)

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Ideas on improving shading(drawing and tattoo)

-Subject:Shading tips.

Finishing up a tattoo design today. It’s a big shading piece. found some useful ideas on the way doing it, hopefully will be helpful for you as well, Let’s go over the step by step quickly.

1.Basic underline. The ideas of the monsters are given by the client, The fun part is to compose the four armed monster at the right, The action pose is exactly what the client requested, Since the two arms on the right is free, I’ve decided to make them expressive, Giving ideas what nasty things it will do to the smaller monster when he gets him. Stronger line weight on parts I want you to see.

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Art mind food.

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Art mind food.

Subject: Marcus Aurelius quotes.

Today we look at more art food to feed our art inner game from our boy Marcus Aurelius.

1.”A man, when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on another act, as a vine goes on to again produce the grapes in season.”

it’s sucking how relevant is this in our day and age, Are you spending too much time on instagram and facebook hoping people would like your work? Instead of focusing on other people you’re better off working on your next big project and invest in the quality of the work.

How to work on art projects with clients.

How to work on art projects with clients.

-Subject: How to handle Art clients.

It will be the best thing in the world if you can get paid drawing the things you like right? I believe that’s every artist’s ultimate goal, but yet before you go there you will encounter clients paying you money which you need to survive and of cause in return they will be expecting you deliver the things they want, Yet how to you achieve this is an art of it’s own. Let’s see what we can do to secretly take control of the situation heehee.

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QUOTES FOR ARTIST EXPLAINED- Epictetus

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QUOTES FOR ARTIST EXPLAINED- Epictetus

-Subject: Art quotes.

The quotes yesterday sure made me enjoy and think more about life and thinking about how life is related to art, today lets’s keep the ball rolling by looking at some great wisdom from Epictetus, And see how are they applied to art, you know it;s good when this guy has Epic in his name!

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Quotes for artist explained- Marcus Aurelius

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Quotes for artist explained- Marcus Aurelius

-Subject: Art quotes.

Words are powerful tools since our life is made up of thoughts in our heads, Today we’d look at some quotes from Marcus Aurelius and see how could they be applied to art, Every time I read them in my life they mean something different hopefully I can translate them to you or at least offer some other directions of thinking for your enjoyment.

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The Best asset of an artist.

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The Best asset of an artist.

-Subject: Learn how to use our asset.

What is the most valuable asset of an artist? Is it the eye or the drawing hand? although both are definitely very important. The best asset is gonna be Time. But there’s a catch, Your brain needs to learn to spend that time on your important task.Because even you think art is very important your brain might have other priorities.

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Own the next best thing.

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Own the next best thing.

-Subject:When the best option is closed.

There’s this great meat shop here in TaiPo HongKong which sells high quality steak for a great price, I fill up my stock there, but the on thing is they sometimes closes on random dates. I ran out of meat, I went to the store and it’s closed.

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Your Art is not you.

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Your Art is not you.

-Subject: Attaching you to your art.

I recently commented on art work one of students drew. He got crazy as if I cursed him ‘my teacher at school told me to do this!’ ‘You know nothing about art!’ and the classical ‘This is my style.’ Bad artwork is NOT a style.

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You're probably too comfortable to get good at art.

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You're probably too comfortable to get good at art.

- Subject: getting good at art.

You have a ok job, you eat ok food, and ok sleep, You want to get good at art, but you don't have much time on it and do some yoyo drawings but they look ok right? Ok is not good enough. ok is the killer of greatness. The first step to change is telling yourself is not ok. As always I won’t throw problems out without answers let’s see how do we fix this.

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How I wasted 14,600 hours on drawing.

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How I wasted 14,600 hours on drawing.

Subject: The 10,000 hour rule.

I started drawing from a young age around 5, And I’ve spent most of my time in school drawing, All my workbook and worksheets from school are full of drawings, My teacher will take my drawings and throw them away which is fine since I am the ‘I hate my work’ type. I notice training what I want is way more important then anything school is teaching. Luckily I got into an art focused college but even you are art focused in Hong Kong it only means four extra art class per week not like Math you have lessons everyday. If I take the lunch hour away and say 4 hours of drawing at school everyday plus weekends 10 years of primary plus college gives me around 14,600 hours on drawing.

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Three Art tips from Frank frazetta.

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Three Art tips from Frank frazetta.

-Subject: Learning from the masters.

Frank frazetta is the best master level artist close to our times. In fact he just left us at 2010. Ten years has passed but his art is looking better then ever, His art style is masculine and aggressive, the beauty of violence and sex can been seen in many of his work. Today I’d dissect his art and analyse how he gives that aggressive taste to his works.

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How to baby step yourself to drawing.

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How to baby step yourself to drawing.

-from your buddy Dinlee

-Subject: How to dominate your mind every time.

We are constantly at war with our minds, I love drawing but I also don’t like drawing could be voices in your head the same time. It’s you that needs to outsmart your mind and make it serve you. With this practice I owned the mind every time I applied this trick, every time I forgot to use it I ended up wasting time. Let’s begin.