It should come as no surprise that stickers help inspire a lot of the art I enjoy making! Stickers are like little pieces of art you can have around at all times, whether it’s on your phone, wall, water bottle, or notebook! I love creating new …
I’ve dabbled in the world of creating coloring books before, but let me share my latest coloring book venture: Let’s Go Camping!. I was inspired to make a coloring book based on the woodland characters in my camping-themed sticker sheet. …
One day, I was navigating through the art supply section of my local Walmart. I didn’t really need anything until I saw a behemoth-sized box of Crayola crayons. You know, that big box that comes with its own crayon sharpener. I’ll have to …
UPDATE: Since originally posting this and being torn between the QYH and Koala papers, I found that the Koala paper is actually better to use because kiss cut stickers seemed easier to peel from the backing. The sticky residue that the Koala paper …
A long, long time ago my friend in high school shared a magical way to decorate sketchbook and journal covers. She took a usually dull sketchbook cover and transformed it into collages of vibrant anime art, J-Pop icons, and printouts of anything else …
I recently finished a sketchbook I started a couple of years ago. Wow, it sure has been a while since I did that, especially since moving to more digital drawing nowadays! The updates in this book were sporadic with some long gaps in between. Do you …
All of you repeat pattern designers, imagine this: you’re incredibly excited to export your repeat pattern swatch from Adobe Illustrator and upload it into the world. You export the swatch as a high resolution JPEG from your …
I’m going to give a giant HOORAY to myself and my Artist’s Way group for making it through this 12 week course! We all felt like we got so much from the book that ranged from learning more about ourselves and developing a more positive …
Week 11 of The Artist’s Way examines how we can nurture and accept ourselves as artists rather than being concerned over what’s marketable and successful. I host a weekly meetup call with a small group where we discuss each chapter and we …
Week 10 of The Artist’s Way highlights the pitfalls that commonly ambush us on our creative path. How many times have you said to yourself: why bother, this other artist is doing way better than me? Or how about: I don’t have time to do …
