There are times when I walk through a contemporary art exhibit and view the work that I ask myself, “What the hell am I looking at?” I am an artist and yet I rarely understand modern art.  I certainly enjoy visiting modern art museums and exhibitions, but honestly, I just don’t get most of it.  I certainly don’t understand how some of these things get hung and sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.  Does the value of art depend on context?  The group at Klara decided to find out.  With the help of painter Luc Tuymans, they set out to discover if art taken out of context holds the same meaning.

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You suck. Every line you draw is worse than the previous one. Your perspective is all broken. Your composition is weak. Nothing looks the way it looked in your head. Face it. You’ve hit the artist’s block. Every artist faces such blocks at one point or another. It’s terribly painful and discouraging and can really sour your disposition. But fear not, Monster Cutie has 6 surefire ways to break you out of the artist’s block!

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Inevitably, an illustrator will be asked at some point in their career to design something, a business card, a website, a promotional flier. Sounds easy enough to the untrained mind. But are illustration and design so easily entwined? Do the two disciplines crossover as easily as one might expect or is there more separation? This week, we ask three webcomic artists to explain the differences and similarities between illustration and design.

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I didn’t get a chance to do a video tutorial last night because I’m recovering from some horrible allergies. But I was able to track down some video of six comic book legends drawing super heroes.

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Whenever times are tough, one of your friends will inevitably say, “Well, I’ll just do porn and make a ton of money!” I’ve joked about it before as have a number of my artist friends. But how do they really feel about drawing adult oriented work? I asked four amazing artists if they took adult oriented commissions and this is what they had to say.

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You are a brilliant illustrator. Your friends think so. Your professors think so. That cute boy who never had the courage to ask you out but managed to sign up for all the same classes you did in art college thinks so. So why are you not making obscene amounts of money? No matter how amazing an illustrator you are, without the right portfolio you’ll never enjoy the success you deserve.  Here are five tips to help you design a winning web portfolio.

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