Resurfacing after a drought.
Well, it's been a long time. What began as a small break in November 2021 (after Inktober) turned into an art drought about four months long, through...
Hiatus ongoing - short update on the Art Dispatch.
Well - the art hiatus that I mentioned in the last Art Dispatch has turned into something much longer. For various reasons (some RL circumstances, some...
Inktober debrief, and a short hiatus: Weekly Art Dispatch, No.35 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue thirty-five. I made it to the end of Inktober! What a challenging and fun ride it's been. It's also a good time...
On track with Inktober: Weekly Art Dispatch, No.34 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue thirty-four. Still October: still Inktober and Drawabox. I’ve now hit my stride for Inktober, while striving to...
Inktober continues: Weekly Art Dispatch, No.33 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue thirty-three. How are we already halfway through October!? This will be a quick Dispatch, because it’s Inktober...
Quarterly Art Review: stepping up my digital art game in Q3, 2021.🎨
Welcome to Vega’s Art Dispatch, a look back at quarter 3, 2021. It's time again to pause and look back at July to September. Here are Quarter 1 and Quarter...
Finishing the 50 Bird challenge: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 32 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue thirty-two. I got quite busy with RL matters and didn't publish a Dispatch last week. So here is another double...
Finishing a bazaar stall: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 31 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue thirty-one. I finished my digital painting of a bazaar stall, the most complicated and involved digital painting...
Painting an environment (work in progress): Weekly Art Dispatch No. 30 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue thirty. This week I started delving further into the kind of environmental painting that I've wanted to do for a...
A debrief on my first commission work: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 29 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-nine. Last week (Dispatch 28.5) was an eventful one: I completed up my first ever paid commission work as...
Interlude in outdoor sketches: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 28.5 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-eight (and half). This week's Art Dispatch will be a short one. I have spent this whole week working on...
How to fight a sheep (plus birds, and Drawabox): Weekly Art Dispatch No. 28 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-eight. Life got quite busy over the last fortnight, and by the time I got around to writing this...
Resuming Drawabox, continuing art series: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 27 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-seven. It's been business as usual this week: I've resumed the Drawabox course for the month, while...
Parenthesis: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 26½ 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-six point five. Last week was entirely devoted on a fairly major piece of digital art that I won't be...
Stepping out of an art hobbyist mindset: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 26 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-six. Last week was a big week of art: I reconnected with an old friend who's now an art industry...
A second breakthrough in digital drawing: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 25 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue 25. Last weeks digital bird paintings were a watershed moment for my digital art. I spent this whole week doing...
Cylinders and digital birds: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 24 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-four. After experiencing significant project drop last week, I'm getting back into the groove of fun art...
Quarterly Art Dispatch: digital art & shading projects in Q2, 2021. 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s Art Dispatch, a look back at Q2, 2021. July is here, so it's time to look back on Q2, 2021, and reflect on how I fared with art. Keeping a...
The Dispatch is back - with lots of shading! Weekly Art Dispatch No. 23 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-three. It's the end of June and the Weekly Art Dispatch is back in publication! I've had a good rest from...
Drawfest, and going on a newsletter hiatus: Weekly Art Dispatch No. 22 🎨
Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-two. Ah, this is going to be a short newsletter. This week has been somewhat unproductive regarding art –...