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Three Manual Transfer Methods

Winona Nelson

I'm doing a small painting for a dear friend, and it occurred to me that this is a great opportunity to do a triple demo showing different transfer techniques. Once you have a drawing ready, or in this case a photo reference, there are many ways of getting that drawing onto a surface. I'll be demonstrating 3 - gridding, graphite transfer, and oil transfer. I call these manual since all of them involve drawing the…

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Composition Junction, What’s your Function?

Greg Ruth

September 26, 2025 -   Composition is the quiet workhorse of any piece of work, fine art, cover illustration, key art, etc... it is the contextual energy that guides the eye and steers it across the scope of the image. It does the lion's share of the work on a piece but also often works best when it's buried a little bit behind the hedge making magic in the background. You can express compositional energy with simple graphic layouts as with say splash page style action shots, or use furniture and light, or even the way characters in your image gaze at each other or elsewhere. Composition is the absolute most quiet and potent workhorse on the canvas or page.     Because of my comics background I was forced to grow a limb that always thinks about how…

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