In the previous article, I talked about turning your portfolio into your best marketing weapon. I also brought up the idea that a portfolio is made firstly to be your business partner, and only secondly to be aesthetically pleasing. Though your...
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Best of, LEARN 1 TIP A DAY, School & Career, Shoe Design
Sketching is not a hobby, it’s a passion |TIP73
Today, I felt like a kid in a toy shop at Tokyu Hands. It’s a Japanese store that sell all kind of house ware, cosmetics, traveller, decoration, and hundreds of cool “useless stuff”. They have just opened, and I discovered a huge corner for pens and...
Are you looking for a design job, but you have no portfolio yet? You learned how to draw, how to create, you even got your own style!It’s now time to make a living from your acquired skills! You want to impact the world with your design...
Digital Drawing, LEARN 1 TIP A DAY, School & Career, Sketching Tools
My first day and impressions of my Wacom Cintiq 22 HD Touch
This article is not a Wacom Cintiq 22 HD review trying to give a mark to the product. It’s just a share of my first impression and real experience with the digital tablet. You will see the plus and minus I met as a new Cintiq user who wondered for...
Best of, Concept art, LEARN 1 TIP A DAY, Motivation, School & Career, Sketching Tutorials
How to Get Inspired to Draw: Concept Art Tips
How to Get Inspired to Draw: Concept Art Tips Today I show you great Concept Art tips to progress faster at sketching! It is always a magic moment to get inspired from someone’s drawing to create something new! Thank you Adrien Wira (my friend...
LASALLE – SINGAPORE First off, I’d recommend that you visit multiple schools and make sure you learn their general philosophy and approach to design. If their philosophy doesn’t jive with yours, cross the school off your list. Visit the next one...
How to Start a Portfolio Most schools will ask you for a portfolio in order to see some of your previous work. But not everyone has a chance to be well informed about the intricacies design school applications, and maybe you don’t even know what a...
Disclaimer: Some private school may try to impress you with the latest technologies and software while the school may be an empty shell of design knowledge. If you hesitate to join a design school like I did, and you do not dare to apply thinking...
Motivation, School & Career, Sketching Tutorials
How to Overcome the ‘I’m Not Good Enough’ Mindset and Start Drawing Again
“Practice practice practice drawing” is overrated. It’s truly important, but that’s Not the only rule to success. Before that, you need Motivation and method, or you might end to Practice, practice, practice for a month...
Art & Design Books, LEARN 1 TIP A DAY, School & Career
Studying Design? Check Out These Taschen Icon Bestsellers
Let me recommend some art books that I personally enjoy: the products of the publishing company Taschen. Taschen publishing started in the eighties as the brainchild of an 18-year-old comic shop owner, Benedikt Taschen. Since then, Taschen has...
“A man paints with his brains, not with his hands.”, Michaelangelo It’s often said that the artist Michelangelo was a genius. If his art is so impressive, it’s because he had an artistic approach that was, above all, scientific and pragmatic. To...
A few days ago I was invited to the manga convention Manga Festival, which was hosted in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.* * I’m living here for two months. The convention wasn’t huge, but it attracted lots of passionate people, including cosplayers of...