I have focused on portrait painting for about a month since my previous blog post. It has been a great journey. I can control the digital brushes better and get to know how to mix paint as well. It was a strange yet interesting feeling when I decided to follow traditional art masters with my own way using Live Oil and Live Watercolor in Fresco (all these Live brushes are free even in the free version of Adobe Fresco). Gladly, it's working well for me and I want to share results of my learning effort to you, my dear readers.
[Portrait in Oil with Joseph Todorovitch]
I organize my digital oil painting and watercolor painting in the Study section of my website (Khang Ta Art - Digital Painting Study). I also let my viewers see the name of the masters I'm learning from as well. If you like the result of my study, you can go study with them too. I'm not sponsored by anyone, but still, I'm sharing hints to keep you going with your art journey. Quite a few of my friends have quit learning art even though they learned like about two to four years ahead of me. They continuously felt their lack of skills or talents (but guess what, I can get this far after two years of learning online by discipline and persistence).
[Portrait in Watercolor with Mark Westermoe]
I'm posting my practice, study, and fan art on Instagram quite often every week to motivate myself and celebrate small success or progress. I can see that if I want to be professional artist and making artwork for the rest of my life, I need to find a way to enjoy my drawing journey. It can be in form of a blog post to share my learning experience, a website to display and organize all my work nicely over the years, an Instagram post to engage with the art lover's community, or a YouTube video just to know how it feels to be on camera.
[My third YouTube video https://youtu.be/XiHSYghCDVg]
I recently created the fan art below by using what I've learned from figure drawing courses and some color mixing knowledge from Portrait Painting in Watercolor and playing around with cool brushes in Adobe Fresco. So, it has been a bit of learning and a bit of playing to keep the fire burning in my heart.
[Ishstar Fan Art - Fate Grand Order anime on Netflix]
Thanks for reading till here, my dear readers. I'll try to post once every month. Have a great journey, everyone!