Ellen @ebedgert@mastodon.art

Merry Christmas! "I Think I Hear Santa"

I haven't worked on this #graphicnovel for months and am not sure I should continue. I want to, but... the subject matter is kind of "different." Sometimes you just wonder what's the point. I will try again.
http://twentyfour01.com/fab/

Art post of the day. This is a gorgeous person named Naja Young. I don't know her but she was one of the increasingly few people on Sktchy who didn't post inspiration pics with stupid Snapchat filters all over them. (why do people even do that?) https://mastodon.art/media/Eu0aIBWsbK9oJ4dOS0I

I'm not very impressed with the Pentel Color Brush, which are not readily available here in the U.S. Nylon brush tip is nice, but too big and clunky. It would have been nicer if they had just made color versions of the Pentel Pocket Brush. #ink #inking

Never forget this, guys... TALENT has nothing to do with anything. It's all about TIME. The time you spend developing and executing your talent. And time is money. Never let anyone pay you anything less than what your TIME is worth...

Please humor me, I come from the age before anime was a thing 😞

LOL just realized that probably 95% of people on mastodon are under age 30 so why on earth would I ask such a dumb question about a 1970s football player 😃

Sometimes I find the most awesome random reference photos from the 1970s, like this football player who was apparently very famous but I don't know his name. Does anyone know who he was? (that is, if I got the likeness anywhere near...?) #football #art

I drew this bird in my sketchbook, it turned out halfway decent so of course, not leaving well enough alone, I imported it into the iPad and played with it all day long. What a time sink, but this is the result #art

How not to do social media: There's this one #artist I follow on Twitter. Really interesting work, I love looking at it, I would consider buying a print (the actual work is out of my price range tho). He seems to be an established, gallery represented artist. But all he does is hawk his paintings. That is literally ALL he ever tweets, 5-10 times a day! Nothing about how he works, how he gets inspiration, techniques, favorite supplies, etc. Just one endless freaking sales pitch. Nope.

Another #sktchy portrait that I enjoyed doing. #art

Do you ever get frustrated because you want to make the picture that you want to see... except that you don't really know WHAT exactly you want to see???

Merry Christmas! "I Think I Hear Santa"

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Said goodbye to this puppy yesterday - Christmas commission, person picked it up yesterday. (13 year old dog) A little over 3 weeks from sketch to finished painting. Nice job, went smoothly. Now back to digital art that has nothing to do with dogs :-)

I bought a Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen and am disappointed at the sepia ink I bought with it. Sepia is brown! It is not brownish reddish purple! #inkproblems

Help me... I'm on the verge of chickening out from going to my first Urban Sketchers meetup

#studiotour It's a guest room! It's a painting studio! It depends on the day. Right now it's a painting studio. Overstuffed with Victorian tchotchkes. Not shown: the big canvas dropcloth on the floor over the expensive hooked wool rug :-)

I hate to say it but I think I've sort of left Sktchy for good. I don't like the changes that were made to the app in the last year; your art just doesn't get seen any more; it's like they're running a private gallery now and digital artists aren't welcome to play (well, not if you hope to sell your art for more than pocket change). I respect that they need to have some sort of business model, but I question the value of continuing to contribute art to the community when you don't get to participate in the business model...

I am glad I participated and of course won't delete my account because I like to go back and see what the other artists are doing. I grew a lot as an artist while I was there. This was one of my favorite pieces to do.

If read one more novel, see one more film or read one more fanfic that has zeppelins and heroic intelligent or semi-intelligent polar bears in it, I think I'm gonna scream

If you can do it quickly (like, in a couple of hours), it is worth doing a detailed digital sketch of a proposed painting to show to the client. I am willing to offer this before getting a deposit, as long as it doesn't take a long time. (a client might ask for something like this but it's best to anticipate you will need it anyway and just do it.) https://mastodon.art/media/uqZccxeaHeo7QuABRtY