by Lachri | Jan 31, 2017 | Art product review, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials, Vlogs
I’m sharing my January Smart Art Box painting! I’m sketching a bird in real time using oil bound charcoal pencils and blocks on my Canson drawing pad! To sign up for your own Smart Art Box subscription, head to http://smartartbox.com/ and don’t...
by Lachri | Sep 6, 2016 | Art tips, Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials, Vlogs
Sometimes it’s just as important to see what not to do as it is to see how to do something. In this demonstration, I’m showing you what not to do when you’re learning to draw or paint realistic...
by Lachri | Aug 9, 2016 | Art tips, Colored Pencil, Vlogs
After completing my recent fan art of Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, I started looking back at some of the things I’ve learned since creating my first couple of colored pencil portraits. Scarlet Johansson This was my first attempt at a human portrait in...
by Lachri | Jul 5, 2016 | Art product review, Art tips, Vlogs
One of my favorite ways of keeping my acrylic paintings clean from line drawings as I work is to use tracing and transfer paper. You can choose to freehand or trace your subject onto the tracing paper, that part is up to you. With acrylic paintings, because that paint...
by Lachri | May 24, 2016 | Vlogs
This month’s Smart Art Box was a watercolor project on Yupo watercolor paper. Now I can’t claim to be a watercolor expert by any stretch of the imagination, but this was still a fun project. One of the things I like so much about the Smart Art Boxes is...
by Lachri | Apr 19, 2016 | Speed paintings, drawings and tutorials, Vlogs
This month’s box was so much fun! I drew myself in a manga style. This was SO outside of my comfort zone as I’m terrible at things that aren’t realistic. If you are unfamiliar with the Smart Art Box, it is a monthly subscription box where each month...
