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Pencil Artist Dino Tomic

Pencil Artist of the Week: Dino Tomic

This week's featured pencil artist is Dino Tomic, a tattoo artist, traditional painter, digital painter, and pencil artist living in Norway. Though his passion is his tattoo art (which is amazing, by the way), it was his color pencil portraits…
Palomino Drawing Pencils

Connect the Dots: Exploring the Link Between Drawing & Communication

Drawing & Communication Art as a form of communication and self-expression is nothing new, but it takes on a whole new level of importance when we consider the way that children use drawing. As a child, Garrett was diagnosed with autism.…
Guy Clark

Interviews with Guy Clark

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Last week, legendary songwriter and artist Guy Clark released his first studio album in four years.  The album features eleven new tracks, ten of which were written by Clark along with a group of Nashville A-Listers, including Rodney Crowell,…
Drawn Album Art

The Best of: Hand-Drawn Album Art

I can appreciate a good photograph or a digital art piece on a record cover as much as the next audiophile, but there’s something extra special about album artwork that’s illustrated by hand. Here are five brilliantly sketched album covers…
Fats Waller Songs

Songs from Literary Masterpieces [Video]

Songs find their way into literary masterpieces often times, adding context, capturing the mood of the story, allowing the reader to enjoy an external frame of reference grounded in the real world.  I love discovering new music via literature,…
Pencil Artist David Bulle

Pencil Artist of the Week: David Bulle

This week’s featured pencil artist is David Bulle, a cartoonist, sculptor and comic artist living in Nancy, France. The subjects of David’s works are often gargoyles, golems, and other fantastical creatures from his imagination, but he has…
3D Drawing by Fredo

3D Drawing Tips to Make Your Work Jump Off the Page

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3D sketches take the art of drawing to a whole new level (pun definitely intended). Artists like Alessandro, Ramon Bruin, and Fredo create mind-blowing 3D drawings that appear to jump right off the page through a combination of shading techniques…
Handwriting

The Perks of Handwriting: 7 Reasons Every Writer Should Write by Hand

With a keyboard or touchscreen within reach at any given moment, handwriting is becoming something of a lost art. There are some aspects of handwriting, however, that other writing methods can never replicate or replace.  Here are seven reasons…
Poetic Lyrics

Poetic Lyrics, Studio 602’s Top 10 of All Time [Video]

Poetic Lyrics Poetic lyrics really add to the song quality and add depth. A great poetic lyric has the ability to make the listener think deeply about the world they live in, staying in their mind throughout their day, or even a lifetime. From…
Books that Became TV Shows

From Pages to Prime Time: Books that Became TV Shows

Do you remember when guilty pleasure TV shows were rare, and you felt a mischievous thrill sitting down to watch them, akin to eating ice cream straight from the carton? Back then, you'd get your fix from one episode of The Real World and move…