There's a quiet fear that keeps a lot of talented people from ever taking their art seriously. It sounds like this: "I never went to art school, so am I even allowed to call myself an artist?" I felt...

I didn't set out to spend $300 on markers. That's the thing about art supplies. It happens in twenty and forty dollar increments over a couple of years, and then one afternoon you're organizing your...

If you've ever stood in an art store holding a single Copic Sketch marker, looked at the $8 price tag, and felt genuinely paralyzed I get it. I've been there. I've also been on the other side of...

For years I believed a lie. Not a malicious one, just the thing everyone tells beginners: get a kneaded eraser, it's the artist's eraser. So I bought one, kept it in my pencil case like a badge,...

Someone told you once that you just don't have it. Maybe a teacher marked your sketch with a red X in fourth grade. Maybe you watched a friend fill a sketchbook with beautiful faces while yours...

I once bought a gorgeous sketchbook. Thick creamy cover, satisfying weight, the kind of thing that makes you feel like a real artist just holding it. Then I put a pencil to it and the graphite...