What To Do When You’ve Lost Motivation Some Jobs Are Just Like That There’s an art job on your table. Great! Problem is…you’ve lost the motivation to do it. Not so great. Hey, you know, some jobs are just like that. You’ll have the ones that you can’t wait to sink your teeth into and […]
What to Draw? What Happens When You Run Out of Ideas? In recent blog posts, I’ve shared with you tips on how to improve your drawing skills. And then I went one further and focused on the number one tip, which is to draw daily. Let’s face it, sticking to a daily plan to do […]
Art Therapy Can It Really Help? Art therapy? Just what is it? Is it a real, acknowledged form of psychiatry or more fluff science? Back in May of this year, I covered the topic of art and its ties to brain health. Not only is art beneficial to the average person’s brain health, it is […]
Do You Draw From Life? If Not, You’re Doing Yourself a Disservice Do you draw from life? If you do, bravo! If not…why not? I understand the convenience of Google these days. You can look up reference images for whatever you want. And there’s nothing wrong (in my opinion) with working with reference photos. I […]
Who Say it Has to Be Perfect? The Beauty in Doing Something Just for Pleasure At what point in our lives do we as human beings become so controlled by our egos that we think that whatever we do has to be perfect? And for the vast majority, if we doubt our ability, or think […]
The Art of Comic Books Why I Like Them So Much I freely admit to being a comic geek, a total fan girl when it comes to the whole superhero genre. But it wasn’t the characters so much as the art of comic books that drew me into comic books themselves, like a moth to […]
Proof That Nobody Is Born an Expert Not Even Me Nobody is born an expert. I’ll never understand why humans are reluctant to try things because they might mess up. Of course you will. That’s a given. You’re human. There’s a learning curve, experience, and trial and error to go through. Tiger Woods wasn’t a […]
Another Tip to Improve Drawing Skills A Tip Within a Tip Back in August, I wrote Five Tips to Improve Your Drawing Skills. The five tips (plus one bonus) that I listed are all your best bet to improve drawing skills. But the #1 tip beats all, hands down. To reiterate, the tips covered in […]
Are You Selling Yourself Short? The Temptation is Real You’re an artist and you want to sell some of your work. But how do you price your work? The temptation is to price low so that you get sales. A sale is better than no sale, right? True, but selling yourself short not only devalues […]
How I Got Past My Artistic Insecurities For the Most Part Anyway… Artistic insecurities. Nearly every artist I know has them to some degree. I most certainly did and still do, a little. But despite what everyone told me, I was still very apprehensive about publicly showing my work. Let me try to explain. I’ve […]
Our pets become part of the family. “Keo-boy”, my siamese, was just a month shy of 20 yrs old. It was very difficult when I had to put him down. It was so hard that I even had him cremated. Myra surprised me with a picture of him, which sits in my bedroom til this day. “Babe” followed “Keo” & if you know a bit about Maine Coons you know they have long beautiful hair with striking patterns. She surprised me one Xmas with a portrait of the big boy. I can’t believe it is done with only pencil. She captured every detail perfectly. I have known Myra all her life, as I am her auntie. She has always had a knack for drawing. At 4, she even placed her artwork on my white leather chair! I have seen her develop into a fantastic artist. I will treasure my works of art forever.
- E. Naito
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