"Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse
Hello friends! I just realized that it's been almost a year since my last art dump... which explains how I have accumulated so much art. I was contemplating whether I should split this into two posts, or just dump it all on you at once, and since I'm too lazy to write two blog posts …
Continue reading "A Long Expected Art Dump ~ ft. lions, samurai, and my broken brain"
Amidst all the fun I usually have with commission work, there are also times when I get a little stuck or stressed out. I recently had a couple days when I was feeling particularly frustrated with my work, so I decided to take a break and just paint something in GIMP for fun, and try …
Continue reading "Trying Something New ~ ft. the smudge tool"
An alternate subtitle for this post could have been, "Why You Probably Shouldn't Trust Me to Draw Your Characters—I may just turn them into hipsters", but I didn't think that would be good for business. (Plus it was too long for my header graphic.) So I decided to play it safe... Welcome, my friends, to …
Continue reading "Of Elven Princesses and Monster Hunters ~ an adventure in character art"
Well, my friends, after four long years... after many breakthroughs, and lots of discovery and exploration... after a trip to the zoo, and all the times it's been stuffed into my backpack with a couple of pencils and erasers... I've finally filled up my old hardcover sketchbook! Almost. There's still one or two pages there …
Continue reading "Gestures, Character Art, and Failed Portraits ~ drawings from the sketchbook"
Hello friends! Welcome back to another art dump. I am your host, Chalice Sleep, and this week we'll be talking all about innovation. (Maybe that's not quite the right word... but I'm rolling with it.) You see, I've been trying new things. Some due to that's what I was commissioned to do. Some due to …
Continue reading "In Which Saw Blades Go to the Fair, and I Try Various New Art Techniques"
Okay. It's time for some honesty. Not that I haven't been honest in the past, but today I'm going to be more... shall we say, "brutally" honest. (That sounds way more dramatic than this post will probably end up being. 😆) So, I've been a bit depressed lately. Lately, as in, on and off for …
Continue reading "Unmasked ~ a digital painting and the scattered thoughts behind it"
Hey guys! We've officially made it through half the year. Whoohoo! And since it's been almost half a year since my last one, I decided it's time for another art dump. So, some of you may remember the art exchange Earnest and I did last year for his birthday. (If you don't remember it, you …
Continue reading "Our Second Annual Art Exchange, Lots of LOTR, and More ~ an art dump"
I've been practicing my digital art a bit more lately, and I've really fallen in love with it. It's everything I like about "real" painting, except no set-up/clean-up time, and none of the color mixing hassle of, "Too much red... now there's too much yellow... now I have too much paint. What am I supposed …
Welcome, my friends, to another post on Lionhearted Art. Today, I'm going to be sharing with you a little bit of art. Technically "fan art," but not, because technically... I'm not actually a fan. And unless you're not a fan either, you probably already know what this post is going to be about. Namely, The …
Continue reading "Making Fun of Phillip Carlyle ~ in which i share a bit of digital fan art"
I haven't been making a ton of art these last couple weeks. In fact, I've felt pretty arted out lately. So instead of sitting down at my desk and picking up my pencils, I'm sitting at the computer writing a blog post. My brothers keep telling me, "You need to post more art. The name …
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