Resurfacing after a drought.

April 13, 2022

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.

November 28, 2021

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 🎨

November 1, 2021

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 🎨

October 24, 2021

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 🎨

October 18, 2021

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.🎨

October 13, 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 🎨

October 3, 2021

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 🎨

September 20, 2021

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 🎨

September 15, 2021

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 🎨

September 6, 2021

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 🎨

August 31, 2021

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 🎨

August 22, 2021

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 🎨

August 10, 2021

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 🎨

August 1, 2021

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 🎨

July 26, 2021

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 🎨

July 19, 2021

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 🎨

July 12, 2021

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. 🎨

July 6, 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 🎨

June 26, 2021

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 🎨

May 24, 2021

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 –...

Slow and steady: Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 21 🎨

May 17, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty-one. It's one of those weeks without any new discoveries or breakthroughs, just steady progress and...

A breakthrough in digital drawing: Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 20 🎨

May 11, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twenty. This Dispatch is a bit late as I've been AFK for a lot of this weekend. (Amongst other things, I spent...

A month of digital art: Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 19 🎨

May 2, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue nineteen. It’s the end of April, my first month of learning digital art (recorded from Dispatch #16 onward). How...

Painting shapes and drawing big: Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 18. 🎨

April 25, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue eighteen. This week's art output was a bit haphazard as I tried to figure out a balance between learning digital...

Learning to be a novice again: Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 17 🎨

April 18, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue seventeen. This second week of digital art was more challenging than last week. I finished a great pencil...

First adventures in digital art: Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 16 🎨

April 11, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue sixteen. At last. After waffling and putting it off for months, I finally dived into digital art: put aside all...

Quarterly Art Dispatch: a look back at Q1, 2021. 🎨

April 4, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s Art Dispatch, a look back at Q1, 2021. In Dispatch #5 I laid out my Big Art Goals for 2021; amongst other things, I said I'd write a...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 15 🎨

March 28, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue fifteen. The IN/BREAK: Transept 2021 exhibit continues, and my art series has already debuted there....

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 14 🎨

March 21, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue fourteen. IN/BREAK, the Transept 2021 art exhibit, opened this weekend! Link to the Transept 2021 online exhibit...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 13 🎨

March 14, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue thirteen. First things first-- My work is appearing in an art exhibit! Yes, this was Big Art Project that...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 12 🎨

February 28, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue twelve. Mission accomplished! The month of February is over, and I’ve finished both the Big Art Project and...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 11 🎨

February 21, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue eleven. Big Art Project and Figuary continues apace. And I bought a bunch of art instruction books! The books...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 10 🎨

February 14, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue ten. RL was quite busy this week, but somehow I managed to make progress on that Big Art Project, more-or-less...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 9 🎨

February 7, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue nine. Progress on my Big Art Project continues. I was quite worried last week that I wouldn’t be able to recover...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 8 🎨

January 31, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue eight. Well - this was a most interesting and not too comfortable week, where I had to contend with more mind...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 7 🎨

January 24, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue seven. An announcement! My Weekly Art Dispatch can now be read in newsletter form. You can subscribe here with...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No. 6 🎨

January 17, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue six. This week posed a few challenges where I learned to establish some new steps in my drawing process – and...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No.5 🎨

January 10, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue five. Fun Art I managed just one significant art piece this week: an original character (OC) that’s been with me...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No.4 🎨

January 3, 2021

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue four. The first Weekly Art Dispatch of the new year. Blogging about my weekly art productivity has helped me...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No.3 🎨

December 27, 2020

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue three. Happy Christmas weekend. My drawing life suffered a bit on account of Christmas, but I still finished...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No.2 🎨

December 20, 2020

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue two. Here goes my second Art Dispatch. Hooray! Study Art This week's exercises: Knocked over 50 boxes for the...

Weekly Art Dispatch, No.1 🎨

December 13, 2020

Welcome to Vega’s weekly Art Dispatch, issue one - the inaugural volume! I'm going to document my journey of improving my drawing and lifting my skill level...