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You Don’t Suck At Color

Chris Beatrice

Do you suffer from chromophobia (the fear of using saturated or bright colors because every time you do your picture winds up looking like a cheap effect from Star Trek TOS)? Well, turns out you don't suck at anything, but you probably misunderestimate the role of something else…

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Post Graduation Studies

Francis Vallejo

January 12, 2026 - Across the world, art students are graduating from their respective programs and entering the professional world. Congrats to you all! This post is for you. Some of you have jobs lined up. Awesome. Some of you are pursuing freelance or waiting to hear back from your job applications and all of a sudden have all this time on your hands. What to do? Well, 12 years ago I was a young artist freshly graduated looking to pursue freelance work. I had a lot of growing to do over the following years and made a ton of mistakes. But amidst all of this I did what I always do when I needed to advance my career: DRAW. The following images are a sample of the sketch pages I created the months following my graduation. These are…

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