Muddy Colors

You Don’t Suck At Color

by Chris Beatrice | Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

Help Is On The Way 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… It goes by many names: lightness (I’ve heard), luminosity (la di da), Mithrandir (I think that’s one of them), brightness (unfortunately),…

Post Graduation Studies

by Francis Vallejo | Monday, January 12th, 2026

Across the world, art students are graduating from their respective programs and entering the...

It’s Super Dan!

by Arnie Fenner | Friday, January 9th, 2026

A beautiful book featuring the Marvel card paintings by Dan dos Santos is now being funded on...

Painting Ghost Rider

by Paolo Rivera | Monday, January 5th, 2026

By Paolo Rivera Ghost Rider Studies. 2006. Acryla Gouache on bristol board, 8.5 × 12″....

Mark Schultz Interview Part 3

by Arnie Fenner | Friday, January 2nd, 2026

As a companion to my previous post including the first two episodes of Lance Laspina’s and...

Remembering

by Arnie Fenner | Thursday, January 1st, 2026

TCM remembers some of the creatives we lost in 2025, including Robert McGinnis, Drew Struzan, and...

Good-bye 2025

by David Palumbo | Wednesday, December 31st, 2025

It is my randomly assigned honor to close out this calendar year for Muddy Colors and I would like...

Check List For Evaluating Sketches

by Kirbi Fagan | Tuesday, December 30th, 2025

Hi artists and makers, I’m sharing with you an in-depth checklist to look through to push your sketches and concepts as far as they can go. Wherever you are in your illustration journey, I hope this list makes an impact in your...