by Henrike Dijkstra | Sep 3 2020 | Blog, Improvement, Making comics, Mindset, Overcoming obstacles, Tutorial
We want our comic pages to look good. But we also want to churn them out in a reasonable amount of time.
In this week’s video I show you how drawing MORE isn’t necessarily better. And how you can increase your speed by using your art skills to the max.
by Henrike Dijkstra | Jul 30 2020 | Blog, Improvement, Making comics, Mindset, Overcoming obstacles, Personal projects
This blogpost has an accompanying video on my Youtube channel: What is a good artist mindset when it comes to making mistakes and imperfect art? And what do you do when you hit a roadblock in your art? I’ll tell you what I did when that happened to me in 2006: I...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Feb 15 2019 | Blog, Improvement
One of the most powerful ways to tell your story through your visuals is by making maximum use of your composition. Which is the way you arrange the elements of your work on the page/canvas/screen. Composition is a vast subject. If you really want to dive deep into it...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Nov 1 2018 | Blog, Improvement, Mindset
We hear this a lot: “create every day, make something every day.” What does that mean? And what does that look like? In the video I talk about things you can do to stay in a creative mindset, even when you’re not in the possibility to create a tangible thing. Watch it...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Oct 23 2018 | Blog, Improvement, Overcoming obstacles, Personal projects
Welcome back to a new post and video! This week I talk about how studying art can become a form of procrastination. When I was still art blocked one of my problems wasn’t that I was doing nothing at all. I was studying hard. I consumed tons of books, articles, blogs...
