Week four SKILL BUILDING: Establishing a Habit I know what you’re thinking: “Establishing a habit? Boring! I want to learn how to draw backgrounds, or learn about color theory, or perspective, or animation!” Well, establishing a habit is the most powerful thing you can do to improve your drawing and illustration skills. Once you have…
Week 3 // Sweet Treats // Making Art Everyday – Year Three
Week three Ffion Evans has been Making Art Everyday since its inception in January 2019. Not only does she show up every day to draw, but she also shows up with nuggets of wisdom and words of encouragement for the MAE community on the regular. If you need creative motivation, or you just want to admire…
Week 2 // From the Garden // Making Art Everyday
Week two SKILL BUILDING: Using Reference Photos Reference photos are essential for drawing just about everything! Looking at references may not only be inspirational but can give you lots of information about how a thing looks. You can take that information and interpret it however you wish as you create your artwork. Contrary to what…
Two Ways to Draw Oranges in Procreate
In this real-time tutorial, I’ll give a quick introduction to the Making Art Everyday Challenge and how to join. Then we’ll draw the first prompt of the year: orange! I’ll show you two ways you could draw the prompt, depending on how much time you want to spend on it. Canvas Size Used: 3800×2800 Pixels…
Week 1 // Fruit // Making Art Everyday
Week one Welcome to Week One of Making Art Everyday 2021! It’s a mini week, only three days long, but I’ll use it to introduce something important that will help you be successful in establishing your art-making habit: goal setting and Progress Trackers! In the past, I’ve noticed that a lot of you felt like…
New Year, New MAE! 2021
NEW YEAR, NEW MAE! 2021 is almost here! Are you ready to become your most creative self? The Making Art Everyday challenge is entering its THIRD YEAR of helping you overcome creative fears and establish a daily art-making practice. If you’ve been here a while, thanks for coming on this ride. If you’re new around…
Week 53 // Making Art Everyday // Year Two
Procreate for Beginners: The Ultimate Introduction to Procreate
Procreate for Beginners The Ultimate Introduction to Procreate https://youtu.be/9YuqNLz5AUs This FREE Procreate class has everything you need to know about how to use Procreate. In this comprehensive class, I’ll cover everything that new users need to know: brushes and other essential tools, gestures, layers, masks, working with color, even Procreate animation, the best file formats…
Best iPad for Procreate
Best iPad and Accessories for Procreate https://youtu.be/heb_TX9Vvm0 Do you want to get started using Procreate and are wondering which iPad to get? Are you interested in upgrading your iPad, but are not sure what to look for? In this video, I’ll walk you through how different hardware can affect the Procreate experience. I’ll compare the…
Week 52 // Making Art Everyday // Year Two
Week fifty-two It’s week 52, can you believe it!? While we technically have a few more bonus days of 2020 after this week, it’s incredible to be wrapping up another year of Making Art Everyday. Whether you’ve been following along all year or are just joining now and planing your drawing goals for the future,…