Whenever Marit and I are at DisneyLand, no trip is complete without a visit or a few to the Art Academy within the California Adventure Park. For those who are not in the know, these are approximately 15-minutes courses, taught by young animators at the Studio, on how to draw a favorite Disney character. Normally when we do this, we use the provided paper and pencil, but I thought it would be fun to try on my iPad Pro with Procreate.app, largely to make it easier to transport home, but also so I could share here. Enjoy!
Continue reading “Roughing It”Author: Ward
I’m the creator and operator of this little corner of the internets, writing on all things related to art and more specifically my experiences trying to figure this whole thing out. I guess I’m trying to figure out life, too, but mostly I just post about art here.
Crash Course: Color Theory
I have a confession. I have no inkling about color. Whatever I know is purely instinctual. I’m much more comfortable staying to grays, and reserving color for symbolic purposes (think Dexter’s inability to see any color other than blood as red).
Continue reading “Crash Course: Color Theory”Site Refresh
Due to a WordPress update, my design overrides got, well, overwritten. While I was at getting things back in order, I decided to do a slight design refresh. As much as I loved my original concepts, they just were not quite working for me. Which isn’t to say there aren’t elements of the original concept that I won’t someday incorporate; but, in the meantime it was obvious to me that I really needed to rethink how I approached the header.
Continue reading “Site Refresh”Treant redux
I decided to explore the same subject, but utilizing my own style I arguably perfected in high school. While it is a lot more work to build up organically this much detail — and I am still a long way off from a finished piece of work — I feel it is starting to exhibit the complexity and details that I love to focus on.
Continue reading “Treant redux”Treant
Originally I was going for something a bit more brooding, but as things generally happen I got something quite different and a bit more whimsical.
