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I’ve been part of the Potato Painters Discord for over a year now, but I never attended one of their events. Until now! Potato Painters is a Discord server for artists who like to draw and paint on location. Having become such a plein air enthousiast the past years, this seemed like the perfect community…
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As a teenager I loved the art classes we had, but there was one perculiar thing that frustrated me: our painting set included magenta as a primary colour instead of red. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t mix vibrant reds or oranges with this colour. In art school I no longer encountered this…
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Friends of mine have been hosting figure drawing sessions for a while now, but it’s time to move on. For this last session, not one but three cosplayers were asked to be our models: @kdnaii_, @zephyrean, and @cenikicosplay! I tried some materials I haven’t touched for years: Winsor & Newton Pigment Markers. I got introduced…
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Maybe it’s because the necessity to make money of my creations has waned a bit; I feel I’m starting to like smaller conventions much more than the larger ones. Okay, the smallest I attended where fantasy and sci fi ones, the largest mostly comic-oriented; so maybe it’s not a fair comparison. But what I’m getting…
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A few weeks back, this image was all over my Instagram feed, I think I’ve seen it at least ten times in stories. And I’m not the only one, it has been shared by 46 million people already (source). I immediately felt a connection to other images that became the face of historic tragedies, such…
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I realised I never photographed these drawings I made during my last figure drawing session in May 2023. Looking back, I think they are some of the best I’ve made last year!
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A few weeks back, a group of friends invited me to go draw at the zoo! I had only once before drawn from live animals in the zoo, so I was very excited to try again. It was a very warm Sunday, perfect for a visit; though we weren’t the only ones thinking about that!…
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Back in June I attended a figure drawing session organised by The Artist Guild. This session featured Lucid Belle cosplaying as Cammy (Street Fighter 6), a nice change from all the nude models! I never came around scanning the drawings, here they are at last! Click on an image to enlarge it.
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Newsletter readers know that I hadn’t participated in an exhibition since art school. I also never helped organize one myself. When Feroz asked me to help after Draw Club Rotterdam was asked if they weren’t interested in exhibiting at Nivon, I naturally said yes, though! Five other Draw Club regulars wanted to participate, so we…