Tribute to Hagrid
Last year we lost Robbie Coltrane – the actor who played Hagrid in Harry Potter films. As a child who grew up with a HP book in hands, I wanted to paint a tribute to such a wonderful character and amazing actor.
Blacksmith Dwarf
Last year I decided to paint over several of my old works from 2017 Inktober. I really liked that mighty dwarf-woman with this huge hammer that I drew on day 4, so I decided to start with her.
Once Upon a Time in the Tavern…
In 2017 I started to sketch out a dwarf having the time of his life on the iPad. And I felt like this have a bigger story into it. Slowly, it grew out in this illustration of a goblin being surrounded by friendly (or not?) big fellows…
Flying Skeleton
This illustration started as a part of Skully July in 2017 and then grew up into this little fella exploring the skies.
Anatomy Resources for Artists: Gesture Drawing
Gesture Drawing is an amazing exercise for learning how our bodies move and how to draw human figures fluently. But sadly, it’s hard to go to life drawing classes as much as we want (and definitely not as much as we need). When you don’t have access to classes with live models, you can always […]
General reference resources for artists
The Internet is full of gems for artists to learn drawing and get references. Here is a list of great reference websites I gathered over the years. I will update this list with time. These particular resources have a broad range of references on various topics. Later I will post specific resources sorted into different […]
No to Unethical AI images
Current AI image generators are unethical because they are built on a dataset containing copyrighted and even private medical data without the owner’s consent or compensation. A research organization, LAION, created the dataset, allowing them to gather all this data. Then they released their dataset LAION 5B as an open source. And now, private companies […]
Make your studies fun
Having fun is one of the biggest factors that will help you stay consistent and be motivated to study art. When we are having fun, dopamine hits our brains. And dopamine is the hormone that drives motivation. People who naturally lack dopamine have low motivation to do anything. That’s one of the reasons people with […]
Why you should draw every day
If you want to get better at something, you should practice it daily. No matter what it is, daily practice will make you progress much quicker and make you stand out from everybody else who is not doing it. And it doesn’t have to be good every time you do it. In fact, it is […]
When you don’t know what to draw
Imagine scenario, you wake up in the morning, you sit to draw and absolutely nothing comes to your mind, you just stare on the white page or your monitor and can’t start. Or you just bought this new shiny sketchbook but can’t seem to start drawing in it because it’s so new and clean and […]