Drawing Inspiration

Mike provides updates on face painting, finding inspiration in PEI, Paperlike 2 and Inktober 2019. Mike then sits down with Sam from Shoebox Studio to talk about capturing and printing your art work. This is a must listen if you ever plan on making copies of your physical or digital art. ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Guernsey Cove Montague Guest book entry Paperlike 2 on Kickstarter Inktober 201...

Mike tries watercolor, talks about the Linea Instagram contest and watches makeup videos on YouTube. Mike then talks with the designer, illustrator and author Mike Rohde, the creator of Sketchnoting, about his journey from drawing cars as a kid to now inspiring others to draw with Sketchnoting. Mike Rohde talks about his exciting new product announcement and has a little homework for you. ===== LI...

Mike starts planning for a summer vacation, enjoys a meetup with local artists and does a live draw at an Apple Store as part of #TodayatApple. He also explores labels and impostor syndrome. This week’s artist is Lydia_Eliza on Instagram. ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Inktober Meetup Today at Apple Impostor syndrome Austin Kleon === Artist Highlight on Instagram === Lydia_Eliza ===== How to reac...

Mike attends a launch party, has a live drawing session coming up at an Apple Store (#TodayatApple), talks about his recent pieces, putting together a drawing EDC and shares details about his murse. He also introduces a new segment highlighting an artist on Instagram. ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Ottawa Arts Review  Apple Store Live Draw  #todayatapple July 27th Cricut Maker Dragonfly...

Mike talks iPadOS 13 beta, nail colors, drawing with an iPad Air 2, bunnies and flowers. He then does a deep dive into all things colored pencil from the various types of pencils, to paper and technique. While these aren’t your childhood Crayola crayons, he talks about the fun in that as well. Also, Happy Canada Day! ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Procreate weekly artmash (#artmash) Bamboo fineli...

Mike begins by talking butterflies and touches on some of his recent sketches. He is pretty excited about what is coming in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13. Mike then talks inspiration and where to find it by sharing some of his techniques. ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Butterflies emerging Rocky Harbour The One Drawing Challenge Pine cone sketch Caragana tree sketch Elm tree sketch Jeff Benjamin iPadOS 13...

Mike finally finished the graphite drawing of the chickadee, watched a Disney artist create a Bob Ross painting and may consider doing a flipbook. He also does a deep dive into drawing with the iPad covering his favourite app, brushes, techniques and a few tips. This week’s homework is very dark.  ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Finished chickadee  - graphite drawing Rocky Harbour  ...

Mike recovers from an injury, finds his creative type is that of “thinker” and signs up for the Adobe Photoshop for iOS beta. He also goes through everything in his graphite toolkit from paper to pencil and all the accessories in between dropping a few tips along the way. As always, a little homework at the end :-) ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Rocky Harbour  (digital work in progress) Urba...

In this premiere episode, Mike explores the origins of his art as well as the podcast itself. He talks about his chickadee piece, some digital work as well as a little homework. ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Chickadee drawing then and now Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration 101  Chickadee drawing  (WIP) Strathmore paper - bristol smooth Butterfly series Ei...