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How to Improve your Cat and Dog Drawings With One Tip

Kirbi Fagan

Mastering the subtle differences in cat's and dog's head structure is a small shift that makes a big impacts on your drawings and paintings. With this tip in mind, you'll start to see your animal drawings gain more accuracy and personality

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Illustrator Gig Cycle

Scott Fischer

May 6, 2025 - Absolutely buried under deadlines this month folks! And it got me thinking about the illustrator gig cycle of starting new assignments and finishing old assignments. (Or even if not an official gig, the idea of working on any current painting while imagining what is next. Rinse and repeat!) And it seems no matter how excited we are about the 'current painting' we may be working on, the allure of that 'next painting', even if we don't know what it is yet, is intoxicating. There is something about when the 'unknown' becomes the 'known', and all that remains is the work (as enjoyable as it often is) that we can't help but seek and fantasize about the 'unknown' again. Matter of fact I did a little cartoon about it and thought I'd share it here. Hope…

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