​CHRIS BEATRICE STUDIO
YOU CAN’T DRAW BECAUSE YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG
If you want to learn how to draw, read this. All of it. Or you can go be entertained by some process video on YouTube, try to do it yourself, fail, then binge something on Hulu like you always do, and be stuck in a rut for the rest of your life...
DARK VISION
“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.” -Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West What exactly is meant by this word, “shadow”? An area of darkness, of less light...
DRAWING LIKE YOU MEAN IT
If you want to learn how to draw, read this. All of it. Or you can go be entertained by some process video on YouTube, try to do it yourself, fail, then binge something on Hulu like you always do, and be stuck in a rut for the rest of your life because you still don’t understand what drawing is.
YOU DON’T SUCK AT COLOR
Do you suffer from chromophobia (the fear of using saturated or bright colors because every time you do your picture winds up looking like a cheap effect from Star Trek TOS)? Well, turns out you don’t suck...
A PERSONAL PROCESS
I started my official “commercial art” training at the age of 13. I’m talking ink wash black and...
A LESSON IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
Surface texture is actually made up of teensy-weensy little forms…
PAINT THE LIGHT, NOT THE COLOR
The color a thing appears to be is, to put it simplistically, a combination of the color of the light and the color of the thing. But most people only think in terms of the color of the thing, and therefore miss the big unifying factor of all things: the light. This exercise shows you how to flip that, paint only the light, then introduce the color of the thing...
YOU CAN’T JUDGE COLORS AND NEITHER CAN I
Value (how light or dark something is). It’s all relative, as Einstein would say...
ILLOOMINASHUN
To understand light and how to paint it, especially from imagination, let’s do the sciency thing and isolate it in a controlled experiment…
COLOR, THE SIMPLEST WAY
A lot of artists struggle with color. If you start by keeping it simple you will gain confidence...
WATER, SIMPLIFIED
Water… translucent, reflective, fluid—a painter’s nightmare! But it doesn’t have to be. If you take each of these properties separately, piece of cake! Watery cake… sounds delicious…