Did you know that focusing on fundamentals can ruin your growth as an artist? I think it got in my way. It’s something I spend way too much time thinking about. That might sound wrong, especially if you know me or survived my classes. Because I believe that the “Fundamentals” are actually really really important. Topics like Perspective, Anatomy, Measuring,

It doesn’t happen often..but sometimes Twitter upsets me…

I get asked all the time if I’m available to do critiques and portfolio reviews or one-on-one demos….So, now I am…officially!

The original version of the Foundations of Form course about the essentials of Linear Perspective was built to last only 2 weeks as an introduction to a semester course. Due to university time limits, it stopped with the “distorted” perspective exercise for students. Maybe not the most perfect point to leave off, but it makes a great point about the effects of perspective before moving onto more intensive…

For me…at least, seeing what’s possible for students that have gone through the exact same set of lectures, demos, activities, and projects really shows up when you see it in real student work.

These were all done by first semester freshmen in my intensive perspective course when I created this course for Ringling College of Art and Design. (A course that remains largely unchanged even though I’m no longer there!)

Now that a major personal project is effectively completed, I’m back working on the site!

Check out the gallery here or run over to @xterravich on instagram.

I won’t go into detail here, but I spent an extensive amount of time over the course of 3 years designing…

New Course now available to paid subscribers! Isometric Perspective! This is a great type of perspective drawing that I use all the time in concept art and coming up with ideas for personal projects. There’s no horizon line or vanishing points. You can see this type of linear perspective in…

New Course Launching! A new course is launching over the next few weeks for subscribers! Rhetorical Rooms! In this course you learn some of the basics of 2 Point Perspective using traditional media, before recreating a real room in your home, using Visual Rhetoric to enhance it with meaning and then plan and ink it with ONLY figure/ground shapes and

The final form is here! Going solo with Watercolor in this one! Transfer from the finished drawing to the surface, then we jump straight into the color. For subscribers only!

From the perspective to the inks! This month sees us going from the perspective drawing last month into the inking process this month! Drawing on tracing paper feels sooooo good! Right?