Just Creative

JANUARY 28, 2021

Others may be seasonal or relevant to specific topics. If you’re a solo brand that plans on including self-portraits, it’s worth investing in photography lights like ring lights for indoor shoots. This simple tool helps capture balanced shots, clean lines, and self-portraits without the limitations of a handheld selfie.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Throughout the past 12 months, we published dozens of articles centered on new artist monographs and tomes surveying broader topics that range from art and design to science and history. The Complete Paintings. We’ve gathered our top 10 below, although you can browse nearly every title we mentioned on the site on Bookshop.

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Colossal

JUNE 1, 2021

Using Microsoft Paint as his primary medium, Mere finds inspiration from the love, struggles, happiness, and pain of the people of the African diaspora. Mexico City-based artist Yanin Ruibal creates vibrant and lush illustrations and paintings that capture the unique Mexican understanding of vivid color. Often containing powerful ?gures

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Design You Trust

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

In recent years, he has been inspired by topics such as identity, dynamics, traditions or the body. “In my photo series Curves, I am displaying another, original look of portrait photography. I try to distort the perfect symmetry of the shape so that the final portrait will look at first like an abstract painting.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Unfortunately, I didn’t understand it, but maybe its topic is just beyond me. Another interesting example I found recently is a post with two pigeon paintings and a reference to the “moral alignment” meme format with a 3×3 grid and labels like “lawful good” or “chaotic evil.” Now, a couple of observations about portraits.

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Design You Trust

MARCH 29, 2024

Like any other art form, be it a portrait or a landscape, it is not limited only to it, but looks behind it, trying to capture the mood, as well as to emphasize the individual artistic personality of the author. The artist’s work is always a reflection and a desire to understand oneself in the context of the chosen topic.

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2025 (United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) This portrait competition is open to all media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance art, and digital or time-based art.

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UX Collective

MARCH 30, 2023

I admired the bold colors and shapes of Picasso’s work, the emotive power of Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits, and the enchanting quality of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” Kehinde Wiley – His beautifully detailed and richly colored portraits reimagine classical art while celebrating underrepresented communities. What are your thoughts on this?

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Feature Shoot

MAY 25, 2022

Even at the height of the movement, the artist saw men take pains to avoid the topic. ” For the project, Kwagala, who used to do tribal body painting at festivals and events, brought along the body paint. Some painted their bodies, and others did not. For the first time, it was okay to speak up.”

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Illustration Art

JUNE 2, 2007

It is difficult to paint realistic, detailed pictures. This brilliant portrait by Chris Payne is a good case in point. Payne recognized that it would be distracting to paint the man's coat with the same intensity as the face. The face and hands are tightly rendered, even down to individual hairs.

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Shillington

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And she also does custom pet portraits so keep an eye out for her detailed pup drawings! Hand painted type? His feed is not only full of his amazing design work but also some brilliant photos, collages, t-shirt graphics and digital paintings that Rob dabbles in too. Good Shape. Isabel Urbina Peña. Book covers? Dan Gurney.

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Creative Photo Editing Ideas

APRIL 24, 2022

Take a brush and paint on the sky only. Nowadays, giving a cartoon look is a very popular topic on various social media. You can create your beautiful portrait using the low poly geometric effects in your picture which are very popular nowadays. So, take your photo and make it a polygon portrait and enjoy it more. .

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 15, 2025

In my traditional paintings, I love when the history of a piece shows through – small missteps, corrections and built-up layers add a sense of energy and story to the final image. I paint tightly toward the end of a piece, but early marks and rough edges help keep the finished painting alive and dynamic.

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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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Colossal

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Each portrait begins with a focus on texture and pattern as the artist paints clusters of twigs and leaves with watercolor. Alongside their simple beauty, the pastel paintings, some of which are self-portraits, reflect the narratives and worries that consume the artist’s daily life.

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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. Once I’m happy with the silhouette I lock the layer so that I’m then only painting within the silhouette. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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Creative Photo Editing Ideas

APRIL 26, 2022

Now we are going to talk about the 35 best topics of s ummer photoshoot ideas , which are given below, so start reading and again enjoy your whole summer: . We can instantly use the sunset as a nice background object and click a portrait mode. Lean Back: You can combine this pose with other portrait poses.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 27, 2022

Alongside her illustrations, Ida creates murals in and around Glasgow and is also partial to the odd cartoon and watercolour painting. At the moment, I'm painting a lot of murals and am creating designs that help visualise research to make it more accessible. I am about to begin painting a mural for the Glasgow School of Art.

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Creative Boom

MARCH 14, 2022

It's a topic that's close to the hearts of everyone at MPB. Jennifer McCord is a London portrait and lifestyle photographer who's spent the last six years photographing some of the biggest names in music and entertainment, both on and off stage, whilst honing her distinctive style. © Angus Scott aka Gussi. Jennifer McCord.

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Canny

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As well as a range of booths to visit, you’ll also find culinary demonstrations, live music, cake-decorating classes, baking contests, and chocolate and coffee portrait painting classes. 1 Food and Beverage business event, featuring the world’s most relevant innovations and topics for this sector. New England Food Show.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 18, 2025

Is there a painting you saw in your formative years that changed everything? My goal was always to become a professional artist, so I’ve never had any other future in mind than painting full-time. While it’s vital to hone your painting skills, it’s important to have the understanding and support of loved ones.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Then, in the 1970s, a revolution began in the subways of New York City, as youngsters spray-painted vibrant, colourful, cartoonish and overwhelmingly positive graffiti that would spread around the world and change the art scene forever. Now a thrilling new book, published by Prestel, brings that era back to glorious life. Gallery, 1982.

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Creative Review

JANUARY 5, 2022

” The ad is released as the role of gambling in sport comes under increasing scrutiny, a topic we explored as part of a wider examination of gambling advertising last year. ” Instead the spot aims to present a “realistic” but ultimately cheery portrait of the game, despite Keane’s brusque demeanour.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

He had developed an interest in painting from an early age, and in New York, he was fortunate to meet the abstract expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who encouraged him to pursue photography. It was particularly important to us to show the breadth of his painting output, too, which was a lifelong pursuit for Saul."

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 8, 2025

You may like 20 pro sketching tips to help you elevate your skills How to stand out as a portrait artist 15 tips to improve your sketches If you need tools to practise with, see our pick of the best drawing tablets or the best pencils for artists. Below, Ill also suggest some new exercises specifically for learning to draw from observation.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 20, 2025

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UX Collective

MARCH 22, 2023

Goodwill may not be a common topic for startups, but it’s a very big deal. Image from the National Portrait Gallery, London, public domain This dude is obviously terrifying —  he chose to have his portrait painted in the dark (maybe some blood flowing in the bg?)  — but I like the quote. But, c’mon, “palue??”

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HONGKIAT

JUNE 14, 2021

The new Core Web Vitals algorithm will focus on the following factors: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Prepare a semantic core and structure keywords for different pages by topics and user intents. Social relevance – bring up socially important topics that relate to public life. Image source). Image source).

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 16, 2025

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Creative Bloq

JULY 1, 2025

t,{A:()=>r})}}]); //# sourceMappingURL=bundle-kiosq-node-modules.js.map TOPICS Graphic Design Illustration Rosie Hilder Social Links Navigation Deputy editor Rosie Hilder is Creative Bloqs Deputy Editor. Since then, shes worked as Operations Editor on magazines including Computer Arts, 3D World and Paint & Draw and Mac|Life.

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Creative Market

JULY 15, 2021

They range from paintings to sculptures to photography to everything in between. In Warhol’s famed Soup Cans , he took 32 canvasses that featured Campbell’s soup can paintings and then stacked them on top of each other and in rows. However, in 2006, one of the paintings from this Soup Cans series was sold for almost $12 million.

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Creative Bloq

JULY 6, 2025

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 15, 2025

TOPICS optical illusion Illustration Art Georgia Coggan Social Links Navigation Editor Georgia has worked on Creative Bloq since 2018, and has been the sites Editor since 2023. __proto__=t,e},r(e,t)}n.d(t,{A:()=>r})}}]); By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

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Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

At first glance, the ad merely showed a blurred, indistinct image of Vincent Van Gogh's famous post-impressionist self-portrait. By using a renowned painting famous for its lack of clarity and definition, Keloptic found a creative way to showcase the power of their lenses. The genius of the ad lies in its simplicity.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 19, 2025

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 15, 2025

t,{A:()=>r})}}]); //# sourceMappingURL=bundle-kiosq-node-modules.js.map TOPICS Graphic Design Rosie Hilder Social Links Navigation Deputy editor Rosie Hilder is Creative Bloqs Deputy Editor. Since then, shes worked as Operations Editor on magazines including Computer Arts, 3D World and Paint & Draw and Mac|Life.

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Creative Bloq

JUNE 17, 2025

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