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Well, I’m still prowling the ocean like a shark- though i’m prowling for housing. 

The desperation and need to move into a bigger place is so pressing. The weight is SO heavy. It’s consuming my roommates and I because we have so little time. None the less, I’ve been making art here and there. I unintentionally did an experiment where I did 2 pieces of art over a couple of days; one was in a more sketchy style that I enjoy and the other was what I thought people looking for children's books would want. They both turned out nice but the kids book style scene feels SO generic and boring I could cry because my heart wasn't in it.

After frustratingly looking at these 2 pieces and realizing what had happened, I fell back and did some sketching in my own whatever-style that I just futz about with. It FELT so good compared to the tedious coloring and stylizing I had been sticking too with the kids book picture.. The sketches weren't amazing but the light bulb went on. All that stuff i’d read about doing what YOU love and putting what YOU want to duplicate and be hired for in your portfolio slapped me upside the head. The scary truth of needing balance and incorporating what I can do with my own likes and how I can pull from and bring in what is marketable, became all too glaring. 

I then attempted to paint a sketch I liked like some of my favorite artists and failed miserably. I’m not sure if its the brushes or opacity settings... but blending and coloring is my big weakness. It turns into chunky, messy stumbling instead of pretty painterly style.I’m specifically looking into classes such as:

Painting with light and color via schoolism. (https://www.schoolism.com/school.php?id=30 )

Digital Painting 1

( https://svslearn.com/classDetail/-K3vdfVhE4Chn1ghv6UH )

Digital Painting 2 

( https://svslearn.com/classDetail/-K4z97btD-cmp8_anLqk )

Lighting for Storytelling 

(https://svslearn.com/classDetail/-KM586KDr9F74W4TKxJC )

Painting Color and Light

( https://svslearn.com/classDetail/-Jj32attapF7bgm4r7ZF )

Working with Color 

( https://svslearn.com/classDetail/-Jj33SpOK7BqCwuDe2Fx )

Painting Fur and Hair

(https://svslearn.com/classDetail/-Jity8vwbFu-6X91wjEu)

and maybe Creative Composition 

( https://svslearn.com/classDetail/-JizJiVMGfEYXNaJgphf )

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Since I’m not currently in school anymore, I’d like to seek out the things I wanted to learn most in digital painting. That was: using and painting color and light AND- creative composition for picture books. 

There’s lots of resource on YouTube but it’s nice to take mini classes geared directly toward a student. 

I also bit the bullet a applied my domain name to the site i’m using for a portfolio. It feels really good and official. I wanted it as such before contacting agencies and sending mailers/making business cards. Speaking of, a couple post card people i’m looking into are:

http://www.modernpostcard.com/

https://www.4by6.com/products/postcards

https://www.overnightprints.com/

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Meanwhile, i’m committing to doing more sketching and pieces that i’m actually happy with..even if they don’t really have rhyme or reason but still closely following good things to put toward a children's book portfolio.. :)

Sincerely, 

How to Draw Gesture Last updated: 26/7/15 

Art resources

THE W-IC-I

Art Communities

Artstation

Layerpaint.com   

Artician.com

Behance.net

ConceptArt.org

Drawcrowd.com

Vfxartportal.com

Zerply.com

Visualart.me 

Digital art video tutorials site

Freshdesigner

Ctrl Paint

Youtube artists

FZDSCHOOL

Noah bradley 

Sycra

Proko

Chris Lagaspi

VitruvianStudio

Let’s draw series

Wake and Draw

Art philosophy and work ethics

How to Train to Become a Successful Working Artist

How To Sell Your Art Through Social Media-Interview with Artist Natasha Wescoat 

Gesture drawing websites

PixelLovely 

Gesture drawing tutorial

The 7 Ls of Gesture Drawing

Proko: How to Draw Gesture 

Proko: How to Draw Gesture - Step by Step

Wow lets learn da human anatomy

Books- Andrew loomis figure drawing for all its worth

Arm anatomy animation

Colour theories

The dimension of colours

How I see colour

Colour theory in a nut shell 

A possible path on the color map

How to have six' with colours

Shading Colour choice Tutorial

Folds

Types of folds

Online art collections for master studies

Art renewal

Art project

Books

Andrew loomis free PDFs

More artbooks free downloads

   Anatomy

   1.      Andrew Loomis - Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth

   2.      Andrew Loomis -  Drawing Head and Hand

   3.      Bridgman – Constructive Anatomy

   4.      Bridgman – The Human Machine

   5.      Burne Hogarth – Drawing Dynamic hands

   6.      Burne Hogarth – Drawing the Human head

   7.      Burne Hogarth – Dynamic Figure Drawing

   8.      Christopher Hart – Drawing Cutting Edge Anatomy

   9.      Eadweard Muybridge - The Human Figure In Motion

   10.  Robert Beverly - Anatomy lessons from the great masters

   11.  Stephen Rogers - Atlas of Human Anatomy for the artist

Forewords by IRCSS:  Don’t push yourself with anatomy. It comes with time, if you read three or four of these books; you should already have more than enough theory to work with. All that’s left is to truly understand them and that takes a while.

Perspective

   1.      Gwen White – Perspective: A Guide for Artists. Architects and Designers

   2.      Joseph D’Amelio – Perspective Drawing Handbook

Color Theorem

   1.      James Gurney – Color and Light

   2.      Betty Edwards – A Color Course in Mastering The Art of Mixing Colors

   3.      Munsell – Munsell Book of Color

Forwords by IRCSS:  James Gurney is a must read. Betty Edwards has some interesting information but also LOTS of wrong ones which is embarrassing for such famous of an instructor. Munsell Book of Color, is the Bible, and I am not even joking. Most of the current color spaces such Adobe ones, LAB and … have been based upon it. It is as close as you would ever get to understanding color as a painter.

Composition

    1.      Molly Bang – Picture this

General

   Betty Edwards – The New Drawing on the Right side of the Brain

   Andrew Loomis - Creative Illustration

   Andrew Loomis – Successful Drawing

   Andrew Loomis – The Eye Of The Painter

Forwords by IRCSS:  On the right side of the brain is a very good read for those who want to start off as artists. And Andrew Loomis’s collection is a must read that I think might even be available online as PDFs since it went out of publications a while back. 

List of old master artists

William Bouguereau ; Jean Leon Gerome ; Joseph Mallord William Turner ; Jeffrey T. Larson ; Rembrandt ; Norman Rockwell ; Paul Delaroche ; Steve Hanks ; William McGregor Paxton ; Thomas Cole ; Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema ; Thomas Moran ; Peder Mork Mønsted ; Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida ; John Everett Millais ; Juliette Aristides ; Maxfield Parrish ; Leon-Augustin L'hermitte ; Pierre-Auguste Cot ; John Singer Sargent ; Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat ; JohannesVermeer ; Edmund Blair Leighton ; Claude Monet ; John White Alexander ; Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore ; Fantin-Latour ; John William Godward ; Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky ; Jacques Louis David ; Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres ; Jean Béraud ; Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy ; Daniel F. Gerhartz ; Horace Vernet ; Herbert James Draper ; Frederic Edwin Church ; Albert Bierstadt ; Frederick Arthur Bridgman ; Giovanni Boldini ; Guillaume Seignac ; Gustave Caillebotte ; Gustave Courbet ; Edward John Poynter ; Edward Hopper ; George Inness ; Eugene de Blaas ; Caspar David Friedrich ; Alphonse Maria Mucha ; Anders Zorn ; Alexandre Cabanel

Credits to IRCSS. 

Other art resources/articles

Artist resource by Self-epidemic

Fast lane to becoming a better artist

What to do as an artist in training

Get better at drawing (without drawing anything)

10 beneficial things artists should ask themselves

Are you being honest with yourself?

Advice for Aspiring Artists Pt. 1

Advice for Aspiring Artists Pt. 2

Art programs [arrrrgh] 

Paint tool sai with transparency