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When Something Looks Easy

Vanessa Lemen

You know how someone will mention how an artist they admire can make what they’re creating look easy? It’s often meant as a compliment to the person they’re saying it about, as if the art just flew off the brush and landed in such a way, or that watching them work is like watching a wonderful dance in which the love for their craft is palpable. It's a beautiful thing! I love seeing artists work…

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The Idea Battle

Gregory Manchess

March 19, 2025 - Everyone has ideas. Most of us are fairly average in how we use our minds to generate them. While we think up ideas like anyone else, as artists we have the added ability to show it. The normal, run-of-the-mill human being can ‘see’ an idea work in their minds, like we do, but they’ve not been trained to make it actually work on paper, or on a screen. It floats in their head while they attempt to express it in words. If they can’t draw it in order to show it, they come to us. An idea that works so beautifully in the mind doesn’t necessarily work on paper. This is the classic art director/artist team, working together to create the same idea. Great things have come from this matchup. But if one is not…

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