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Feeling Gray Today

Howard Lyon

-By Howard Lyon   Color is a fascinating and challenging part of painting.  It can be defined as hue, saturation and value. Today, I am going to focus a little more on saturation. Saturation being how intense or gray a color is. Before I get going though, I think I need to add a disclaimer to this post. Painting from life is the best way to understand color. Also, photographs of paintings are by no…

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10 Illustration Rules I Learned the Hard Way

Dan dos Santos

April 25, 2025 -   Many will say that there are no rules in art. And that's true when it comes to creation. But when it comes to the business of Illustration, I do have a set of hard rules that I never break... mostly because I've learned the hard way not to. I thought I'd share with you some of those rules in the hopes that you can avoid the same suffering.     1. If you paint on board, always leave ample border. I used to leave just a 1/4 inch border around my images. Not only did it look really nice during presentation, but it often meant I could squeeze 2 paintings out of 1 piece of illustration board. Don't do that. Leave yourself several inches of space all around. This is for several reasons. Firstly,…

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