Todays featured artist is Katsushika Hokusai. Katsushika was a leading Japanese artist in the edo period. One of the things he was well known for was his wood block prints. He was born in 1760 and lived to 1849. His work and others like it came to the west starting after 1854 when Commodore Matthew  [ Read More ]

Hi gang a lot of you had asked about what books I suggested for people learning how to draw and paint.  So I got to work and created a page with the top books I suggest. And I of course they are also arranged by category to make things easy. The page is located over  [ Read More ]

Hi gang I just added a list of art schools over at the forum. So I thought I would mention it here for those of you looking for a good art  school in your area. You can find the list of schools here.

Todays featured artist is Gustav Bauernfeind. I really do not know much about this artist. And I can find very little useful information online. But I do know he was a 19th century orientalist painter. If any one has any good information about him let me know.

Hi gang sorry for the delay in posting I was out of town for a few days. To get thing going I thought I would post a resource.  And the resource I chose today is Olga’s Gallery.  Olga’s Gallery is one of the top online art galleries. They have over 10,000 works of art for  [ Read More ]

Well may prayers  were finally answered. I have an updated and much much faster internet services that is working great with no down time. This will let me be able to start posting more articles again. I will try and bring you guys the best in art tutorials, featured artists, free resources and much much  [ Read More ]

Here is a video from the great figure drawing teacher Glenn Vilppu on building the anatomy of the shoulders.  I think you will enjoy it and hopefully learn something new.

Great news gang I have done a major update on the ArtPhotoFilm.com forum. It now has free video art tutorials, featured artists, an art museum, hundreds of free art books and a very clean new look.  So take a come join me and the other users over at ArtPhotoFilm.com and make use of all the  [ Read More ]

Hi gang I thought I would do a small article on concept art since I know some of you are interested in it. Concept art or what is some times called visual development and/or concept design is the form of illustration where you design characters, mecha, props and other things for movies, comic books, video  [ Read More ]