Have you been brushing up on your digital coloring skills? Are your coloring techniques the stuff of legend? Do you think you have what it takes to be a professional colorist? Then get your Wacoms ready friends and enter the ALVINLEEART.COM DIGITAL COLORING CHALLENGE!

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If you were to ask me to visually convey what goes through my head as I draw, I would simply show you this video. Directed by Mokoto Yabuki, “White Box” captures the elegant beauty that even the simplest of drawing can inspire.

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This week, Monster Cutie demonstrates how to create a comfortable brush holder for artists who prefer thicker handles.

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With The Princess and the Frog, Disney returns to traditional hand-drawn cell animation. It’s about time! I was so excited when I saw the first trailer and I can’t wait to see it on the big screen. If you missed out on this year’s San Diego Comic Con, you would have missed a unique preview of the film. Pencil test scenes from the film were screened at one of the panels.

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One of my goals for 2009 was to get more freelance work as an illustrator and make moves towards my ultimate goal, draw for a living from home. It’s now June and I have yet to really get things started. My biggest problem is that I have a lot insecurities when it comes to my work and this fear seems to have sabotaged my progress. So I thought I’d get some advice. I headed on over to my local amazon and picked up How to be an Illustrator by Darrel Rees.

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Every once in a while, you may find yourself looking back at your body of work and thinking, “What the hell is all this garbage?” Well, I have personally come to such a time and it is why there haven’t been any updates for a while. After years of screwing around with the computer to make life easier, I’ve decided to get back to basics with traditional media.

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