"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 …
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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 …
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And so we have come near to the end of our journey. This is part five and the conclusion of my series of posts on the fantastic, lovely, delicate, ambient, bold and beautiful world of shading. Over the past couple months we've talked about the tools of the trade, explored a rather painterly method of …
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Alright, my friends. We can't avoid this subject any longer. We need to talk about edges. When it comes to shading with graphite or charcoal, we're basically dealing with two fundamental subjects: value and edges. Value being how dark or light a certain object is (we talked about double checking your values/tones in my last …
Continue reading "The Joy of Finger Blending ~ the ambient world of shading, pt. 4"
Hey Lionhearts! Welcome to the third installment of a series of posts on the technicalities of advanced pencil shading. (In case you missed them, you can check out part 1 and part 2 here.) Today we'll be talking about graphite, which is still one of my favorite mediums to work with. It's very versatile, and …
Continue reading "All About Graphite ~ the delicate world of shading, pt. 3"
Hey lionhearts! Welcome back to part two of a series of posts on advanced shading. In last weeks post, I discussed some of the basics to get you started before we dive in. So we're just going to get straight to the fun stuff. No brakes, full speed ahead. Today, we will be talking about …
Continue reading "A Study In Charcoal ~ the lovely world of shading, pt. 2"
Many moons ago, I wrote this post on creating an accurate outline. I was planning to follow it up with a post on shading your accurate outline. But then I began thinking of all the different methods of shading, and everything that goes into it... and I'll admit I got a little overwhelmed. The thought …
Hello Lionhearts! Well, here we are again. I feel like I just did an art dump... but then on the other hand, I have art that I'm long overdue in sharing. My siblings and I had our annual fan art exchange almost nine months ago, and I still haven't shared all the AMAZING art they …
Continue reading "Of Character Design, Goats, and Batman ~ a dump truck of art"
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"
A while ago, I had art block. Well, to be honest, I probably had plenty of art projects to work on, but I just wanted to do something that didn't have to be perfect and I could just have fun with. I think I might have mentioned this to a friend, and she said I …
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