STUDYING

Character Design Quarterly ARTICLE 'THE LANGUAGE OF SHAPES, WITH TOM HÄNNI' : Episode 106 of the So Free Art Podcast, with Artist Sophie Lawson

106 – CDQ ARTICLE ‘THE LANGUAGE OF SHAPES, WITH TOM HÄNNI’

An Art-Ickle in Issue 11 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled ‘A Quick Guide To Composing Characters, with Katarzyna Olbromska’ is the topic of this weeks episode; and it’s a super fascinating one about the importance and power of a Characters Backstory.

This one covers stuff like

Thumbnailing,
Creating Characters Backstory,
Shapes,
Balance,
Colours,
Silhouettes,
and Katarzyna Olbromska’s Cool Characters.

Funny the cat joined us for this one and decided to sit on the computer during recording lol, but I do hope you enjoy this one :)

COLOUR THERAPY by Sue Lilly : Episode 105 of the So Free Art Podcast, with Artist Sophie Lawson

105 – COLOUR THERAPY

This one was fun. I dive into the book Colour Therapy by Sue Lilly, and talk about all the different colours, and how they affect us on an energy level.

There’s lil Art Tips too, like how Yellow and Brown are good colours to have around while Studying to help focus the mind!

Hope you enjoy this lil ramble about Colour Therapy, which covers stuff like:

The Power of Colour,
Society & Beliefs around Colour,
Feelings vs Colour Theory,
Balance,
Character Design,
Crystals,
Using Colour to Tell Stories,
Energy,
Chakras,
and Chocolate Cake :)

And that’s that lol

Character Design Quarterly ARTICLE 'A QUICK GUIDE TO COMPOSING CHARACTERS, WITH KATARZYNA OLBROMSKA' : Episode 101 of the So Free Art Podcast, with Artist Sophie Lawson

101 – CDQ ARTICLE ‘A QUICK GUIDE TO COMPOSING CHARACTERS, WITH KATARZYNA OLBROMSKA’

An Art-Ickle in Issue 11 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled ‘A Quick Guide To Composing Characters, with Katarzyna Olbromska’ is the topic of this weeks episode; and it’s a super fascinating one about the importance and power of a Characters Backstory.

This one covers stuff like

Thumbnailing,
Creating Characters Backstory,
Shapes,
Balance,
Colours,
Silhouettes,
and Katarzyna Olbromska’s Cool Characters.

Funny the cat joined us for this one and decided to sit on the computer during recording lol, but I do hope you enjoy this one :)

GRAPHITE MAGAZINE ARTICLE 'ETHEREAL PORTRAITS, WITH SARA TEPES' : Episode 89 of the So Free Art Podcast, with Artist Sophie Lawson

89 – GRAPHITE MAGAZINE ARTICLE ‘ETHEREAL PORTRAITS, WITH SARA TEPES’

An Article in Graphite Magazine issue 9, entitled ‘Ethereal Portraits, with Sara Tepes’, is the topic of this weeks episode; I study how Sara Tepes walks through the process of drawing a Traditional Pencil Portrait from her Imagination.

The entire process, from Sketch to final Detailing is covered, including stuff like :

Art Tools,
Facial Feature Relationships,
Portrait Drawing Process,
Lee Hammond,
Art Paradoxes,
Realistic Pencil Drawing Skills,
Spirituality,
How Less is More,
and the Beautiful Portrait Drawings of Sara Tepes :)

Really hope you enjoy this one

STUDYING AND FINDING FOCUS & BALANCE THANKS TO VIDEO GAMES : Episode 88 of the So Free Art Podcast, with Artist Sophie Lawson

88 – STUDYING AND FINDING FOCUS & BALANCE THANKS TO VIDEO GAMES

Who would have thought playing Video Games would result in better Focus, Balance, and Discipline?

That is what’s happened though; I talk about the past week of Studying on this episode, and how having one day dedicated to playing Video Games seems to be helping me find Balance, and Focus.

I also talk about SVSLearn.com, Studying Fabric Folds, and various Distractions … this one’s also got a bit of a Christmasy vibe to it :)

Hope you find it interesting.

ART MAGAZINE ARTICLE : Episode 83 of the So Free Art Podcast, with Artist Sophie Lawson

83 – CDQ ARTICLE ‘CHARACTERFUL CREATURES, WITH HALEY JUSTICE’

An Article in Issue 7 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled ‘Characterful Creatures, with Haley Justice’, is the topic of this episode, where Peter the Penguin and I talk about tings like:

Silhouettes,
Basic Shapes,
Capturing Movement,
Lines,
Shapes,
Finding Balance,
and Haley Justice’s Characterful Creatures :)

Really hope you enjoy this one, please let me know what you think in the comments :)

ART MAGAZINE ARTICLE : Episode 81 of the So Free Art Podcast, with Artist Sophie Lawson

81 – CDQ ARTICLE ‘CAPTURING A CHARATER’S ESSENCE, WITH SIMONE GRÜNEWALD’

Something a bit different for this one, as I go through an Article in Issue 1 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled ‘Capturing a Character’s Essence, with Simone Grünewald’.

I talk about stuff like

Thumbnails,
Gathering Reference,
Studying Characters,
Sketching,
Iterating,
and Simone Grünewald’s lovely Characters.

Really hope you like this one; please let me know what you think.

It will evolve overtime, but I’m hoping to do more of these as it was a lot of fun :)

THUMBNAILS : SVSLEARN CREATIVE COMPOSITION STUDY NOTES • THE SO FREE ART PODCAST 53

53 – THUMBNAILS : SVSLEARN CREATIVE COMPOSITION STUDY NOTES

This be the first of the new format, where I have 15 minutes to talk about a random topic :) The subject for this episode was … ‘Talk About My SVSLearn Creative Composition Study Notes’; it ends up mostly being about: The Importance of Thumbnails, How Nature Uses Fractals to Create Tings, and How Designing is just as much Fun As Drawing :) Hope you like it.

Studying with SVSLearn • THE SO FREE ART PODCAST EPISODE 44

44 – STUDYING WITH SVSLEARN

SVSLearn.com is the main topic for this weeks lil episode, as I talk about my experience studying with SVSLearn, the Society of Visual Storytelling. We also have the lil Art Tip, which is about creating Colour Palettes for Painting, the Book Book is Keys To Drawing by Bert Dodson, and the Fascinating Fact is about something called Distributed Practice, which drastically increases Knowledge Retention when learning. I also tell a lil story at the end about a Meditation that resulted in an Orgasm, like you do lol Hope you like this one :)