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Tutorial: Pencil in Nomad Sculpt
Tutorial day today! We’ll be making a pencil in Nomad Sculpt. Cause there’s nothing more beautiful and more elegant than a humble pencil. (This is coming from a pencil artist, oh well, I’m biased!) Start off by deleting the default sphere. Then add a cylinder from the primitive tab. Adjust ...
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How to solve the limited layer problem in procreate
If procreate is your app of choice, chances are you have come across the dreadful message: Once a certain layer limit is reached, you cannot create any more layers. This can be frustrating. I am old enough, so I used to work with photoshop long before procreate was developed. In ...
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Arrtx 30 General & Pastel Acrylic Markers
Another review today. This time I am putting the notorious Arrtx Acrylic Markers under the microscope. I have previously reviewed Arrtx 126 colored pencil set and I totally astounded by their quality/price combinations. Naturally the bar was already high. Let me tell you that: They didn’t disappoint. Disclaimer: The markers were ...
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Tutorial: Realistic Skin with Colored Pencils vol2
A skin tutorial again! A couple of years ago I did this tutorial for drawing realistic skin with color pencils. Up to this date I still use it as the basis for my drawings. However, it mostly targets beginners, so this time I opted for something slightly more advanced, to ...
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Arrtx Colored Pencils Review
If you are a colored pencil artist (hobbyist or professional, it doesn’t matter), chances are you are familiar with the “big three”, namely Faber-Castell Polychromos, Prismacolor Premier and Caran D’Ache Luminance colored pencils. These are the top three brands that dominate the market. (I’ve reviewed extensively all of them in ...
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Moleskin Watercolor Pencils Review
My husband went on a business trip to Italy and I stayed home with my kids. He brought me a deluxe moleskin set. I decided I might talk to him again, after all! I am generally a Mega moleskin fan, I’ve used up countless sketchbooks over the years. Sometimes I ...
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Faber-Castell Pitt Graphite Matt Review-The perfect black pencil?
According to my social media log it’s been almost 3 years since I last used graphite pencils, and about 1.5 years since I used traditional media in general. Still… pencils are my favorite toys, when I see something new, I MUST have it! Naturally, my pencil collection, which I’ve built ...
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Baby Box Paper Craft (+free template)
I’ve told many times before that being an artsy mum isn’t easy. Kids can have high expectations. I’ve gone to great lengths to satisfy my little ones, crafts, coloring pages, even recipes and whatever else you can think of. This time, however, I really outdid myself. I spent so much ...
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Tutorial: Coil in Nomad Sculpt
I’m still quite new to 3D art, but throughout my whole journey I am particularly awed by one thing: (This is a lie, I am not awed by just ONE thing, but I hope you get my point!) Seemingly easy structures are sooo hard to sculpt. The other day I ...
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Ioanna Ladopoulou
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