In between freelance, art licensing, and publishing projects, Mayra’s working toward completing her MFA in Illustration with the Academy of Art University.
Self-taught illustrator Canadian illustrator Sheilah Beckett was the first woman to join the Charles E. Cooper Studio --- the preeminent commercial art studio of mid-twentieth-century...
When taking sketch notes in real-time, doodles, hand letterings, and other inspired drawings don't always come out perfectly. Still, the end result is quite pleasing...
While progress has been made, I'm still finagling the placement of important facial details, including the hairline and jawlines. And I still haven't added my...
One of my recent artwork projects: a portrait painting using oil paints is to commemorate my sister's 41st birthday, which is just around the corner....
Now that I can hand-craft high resolution, vector-based surface designs, I absolutely can't stop doodling and sketching potential designs for fabrics and all kinds of...
It's so hard to believe how far gone my now-art design studio was when my family and I first moved into our 1890 home in...
This volume of Doodles & Sketches showcases a partial collection of still life composition thumbnails, which were created using charcoal on newsprint paper....
In this Volume 2 edition of Doodles & Sketches, I've shared some draft value studies for a digital painting project featuring a surprised octopus character...
So here are three things I've learned about my own drawing style (and process) over the past several years....
Doodle art represents loose, casual, and carefree sketches or drawings usually done up for fun or as quick references for future drawing projects....
This curated collection of 1o illustrations by Harding, and the corresponding personal essay, were compiled as part of an illustration history course assigned during my...
My watercolor instructor says I have a "painterly style." As I'm still trying to learn what my illustration and painting style is (and isn't), her comment...
