Creative Boom

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Although Karlotta works digitally today, everything she creates continues to have a hand-drawn quality. Currently, she's painting in oils, carving wooden figures, knitting, and sewing. It began as a way of sharing career advice because she was receiving so many emails on the topic. Valextra – one of her favourite projects.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 20, 2025

Painting an environment concept that feels like a believable place, no matter how outlandish the setting, often comes down to capturing these small details and placing yourself in the world. Consider the who and why (Image: © Edward Barons) I often think a good concept comes from the head more than the hand.

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Its Nice That

JUNE 19, 2025

Vincent van Gogh was known for painting over old canvases, and Jean-Michel Basquiat skipped the canvas altogether, choosing to paint on doors, windows, refrigerator parts, and discarded wood he found on the street. Thanks to her community of helping hands, she managed to finish the production in just 90 days.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 20, 2025

• Shoulder axis: connects the hands. t,{A:()=>r})}}]); //# sourceMappingURL=bundle-kiosq-node-modules.js.map TOPICS Art Illustration Noiry Noiry has been a comic artist and colourist for more than a decade. • Hip axis: defines leg positioning. Sometimes all three of these reinforce the same action. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Every time I hand out my business card, it's almost like I'm offering a piece of my identitylike a mini-resum but printed in style! Now it's time to get your hands dirty and understand what your clients truly need. What are the hot-button topics in design? I've experienced the power of typography first-hand.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 22, 2025

And whether thats going from a very clean serif, almost like a very neutral colour palette to brands being a bit more expressive, with more serifs, and more hand done elements. TOPICS Graphic Design Rosie Hilder Social Links Navigation Deputy editor Rosie Hilder is Creative Bloqs Deputy Editor. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 8, 2025

Its common for artists to use their hand or brush to measure the proportions of subjects, but this can have its downsides – see the video below from Alex Tzavaras. Trying rolling your hand to make a telescope shape or using a neutral-coloured frame or other object to cover the rest of the scene and isolate each colour.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 12, 2025

We rarely end up using the light tables since most of our work is done digitally using our iPad Pros and Clip Studio Paint. I’ve been enjoying creating manga by hand recently, so I have various traditional tools stocked to do just that. This is one of the character sheets.” It also mimics the feeling of a Wacom Cintiq.”

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 27, 2025

Living in London is a constant source of inspiration – its stunning architecture and rich history offer endless material for painting. But for this workshop on how to paint an urban scene, I’ve chosen to focus on something more universal: a familiar, everyday urban scene that could be found in almost any modern city.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 16, 2025

3D capabilities arent on the list, but it turns out that in the hands of a skilled animator, even animation in the standard Procreate app can look almost as smooth as 3D. Last week we were looking at whats coming next in Procreate Dreams 2 , the upcoming iteration of an app thats already our pick as the best animation software for iPad.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 21, 2025

Image credit: SomeOne) Created by branding agency SomeOne , the project began with a hands-on approach, analysing the colleges archives and tangible structures across its grounds. Sign in here TOPICS Logo Graphic Design Natalie Fear Staff Writer Natalie Fear is Creative Bloqs staff writer. Visit our corporate site.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

You may like How to paint realistic digital art scenes with speed on iPad and in Photoshop How I use an iPad to paint from life in a museum How to recreate the look of oil painting in a digital art portrait, using your iPad or tablet If you need the tools, see our pick of the best drawing tablets and the best digital art software.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 26, 2025

Read our Procreate tutorials to learn how to paint your creatures.) “Sketching by hand still feels most natural. ” Dominik Mayer painted one single image that tells the whole story, for Death at Sunset. ” Justine Jones colourful psychedelic art style brings a new idea to what a D&D dragon should look like.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 6, 2025

View Trending Enter Brand Impact Awards Optical illusions Amazon Prime Day Indie games Recommended reading Digital Art Plein air painting goes digital: how artists are using portable tech to paint in the great outdoors Digital Art What is impasto and how can you do it in digital art? What is digital art? What is digital art?

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 25, 2025

In this tutorial, I want to share a practical approach to how to paint on a Samsung Galaxy tablet. I settle in, stylus in hand, and begin the sketch. Once I’m happy with the silhouette I lock the layer so that I’m then only painting within the silhouette. Here’s how it works.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

Here was a 71-year-old master, someone whod spent decades perfecting his craft with actual paint and actual brushes, suddenly prodding away at a screen like he was playing Angry Birds. The portability meant he could work outdoors in ways impossible with traditional painting. Its just a gadget," sniffed the critics.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 15, 2025

The film’s hand-drawn animation captures the contrast between Japan’s sprawling urban environments and the serene countryside, emphasizing a yearning for tradition and a closer relationship with nature amid rapid modernization. The iconic ballroom scene used a 3D-rendered environment and virtual camera movement.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 27, 2025

Just from the opening prologue that you can play from the Steam demo, you can appreciate how the low-res pixel aesthetic is executed, all the more impressive with its nighttime setting, where all the effects you see are hand-animated with some intentionally wobbly backgrounds and without any modern lighting effects. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Creative Bloq

JULY 14, 2025

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 30, 2025

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 11, 2025

”I would do most of my work including covers by hand and on the rare occasion I do touch ups by computer.” “Ive painted Superman with real paints and digital ones," he says. "As As long as I have the right colours at hand Im happy doing either.” At bottom, Superman is a light bringer.”

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 21, 2025

But the colour has to show who has the upper hand in the battle and that’s what makes it easier to think about. For example, during the later episodes you’ll see Momo take this pair of hands out of her back. “That’s shared by the people who are watching as well, because it happens so suddenly.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 7, 2025

Hollie Tutt (Image credit: Future) I also enjoyed the moving gloved hand that was above Phoebes work, created by Hollie Tutt and named Care & Attachment. Since then, shes worked as Operations Editor on magazines including Computer Arts, 3D World and Paint & Draw and Mac|Life. Object.setPrototypeOf.bind():function(e,t){return e.__proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Creative Bloq

JULY 9, 2025

You get immersive tactile feedback in a single-handed control format, and the best part? TourBox controllers are designed to work with leading software packages, including Photoshop , Lightroom, Capture One, Premiere Pro , Final Cut Pro, CapCut, DaVinci Resolve, and Clip Studio Paint - to name just a few (not forgetting 3D apps like Blender).

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 17, 2025

This isn’t just about comfort, its also about precision and recognising we all have different-sized hands. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. r:null},9993:(e,t,n)=>{"use strict";function r(e,t){return r=Object.setPrototypeOf?Object.setPrototypeOf.bind():function(e,t){return

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Creative Bloq

JULY 3, 2025

You may like 15 tips to improve your sketches 20 pro sketching tips to help you elevate your skills Discover Greg Manchesss art tips for more dynamic paintings To do that, we’ll need to look at the subject with a child’s eyes. To avoid any clutter, I lightened the pencil lines around the creatures’ heads and hands.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 15, 2025

I remember shops even selling second-hand flares alongside Ben Sherman shirts while retro sofas and velvet and paisley were all the rage. That nostalgia was reflected visually too in the bands use of mod revival fashion, psychedelia and Adidas Samba and Gazelle trainers. Object.setPrototypeOf.bind():function(e,t){return e.__proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Its Nice That

JUNE 17, 2025

Francesca plays with colour and monochrome, the former illuminating the personalities of the contestants whilst the latter evokes a strange creepiness seen in hair-themed horror movies such as Bad Hair and Exte, which explore cultural ideas around girlhood, a central topic in Francesca’s work.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2025

For the last year or so, he's been meticulously painting illustrations for Willis Wonderland: The Legendary House of Atomic Kitsch Pop-up book. Neal, whose studio is called Hand Drawn Creative, was invited by design and culture author Hillary Carlip, who led the project, to illustrate all the items that appear in Willis Wonderland.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 12, 2025

The indie developer Akunaee has shared a short animation from an upcoming game called FlestFest in which every frame is hand drawn. Animated mainly on twos in Clip Studio Paint, one of our picks in our guide to the best animation software, it has an endearing almost papercraft look but with very smooth animation.

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Typographica

JUNE 26, 2025

Jim studied design and painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts. He had an incredible knack for rendering any kind of letter style by hand. Later in life, when Jim wasn’t drawing logos or making fonts, he was painting signs. Abusive or off-topic comments are not published. Not how you think.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 13, 2025

Created with skill, paint and. Im obsessed with how casually the artist adds the paint in just the right position with the broom, and then slops on features with the spatula. (Image credit: Kristian Bell via Getty Images) An artist has gone viral on TikTok for his optical illusion mural that is, frankly, terrifying.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 25, 2025

Its latest helping hand is a new Parrot Game Sample in both Unreal Engine and Unity versions made with the same assets. Developer Epic Games has been trying to change and to coax more indie devs to Unreal by providing lots of resources for learning and stressing that its not just for big photorealistic games. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Creative Bloq

JULY 12, 2025

For this latest project, which is raising money for Save the Chimps, Ozzy painted multi-coloured base layers onto five canvases, before handing them over to rescued chimps Kramer, Sable, Sophie and Janice. Perhaps theyve been reading our how to paint on canvas tips. You may like Have they no shame? __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]);

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Just Creative

MARCH 4, 2021

Not only does it give you the ability to draw creations from scratch but you can also create painting, illustrations, graphic designs, and more with incredible detail. So, read on and master Procreate with these 15 free Procreate tutorials for Illustrations, Paintings & Drawings, and more. Perfect for beginners or professionals!

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Creative Boom

JULY 25, 2023

Next month, he's painting a giant mural in Breda, celebrating his roots. I understand that AI has been a topic we've heard a lot about lately, I can't tell how many times I have seen AI workshops, online events, or talks posted on my LinkedIn. So go ahead, try your hand at painting, sculpture, or airbrushing.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 15, 2022

Left to right: Billy Paterson (Communication Design Y3), Jihye Baek (MFA 2022), Fleur Connor (Painting and Printmaking 2022), Sophie Ammann, Leonie Hiller (Communication Design 2022). Another collective grad show, New Designers, features the work of 3,000 hand-picked graduate design talents from around the UK. It runs until 24 July.

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