Manufacturers slap "professional" and "archival" on ordinary accessories to trigger your FOMO. Learn to spot the jargon, understand what actually matters, and stop buying solutions to problems you don't have yet.
Choosing paper feels overwhelming with so many types, weights, and terms to sort through. This guide breaks down tooth, lbs versus gsm, and more. It includes a reference table listing various paper types alongside some of the mediums that work well with each.
From hand drawn collages in a dollar store frames to a digital art series in four colorways, this is the story of how three flowers became the Botanic Series at Line & Blossom Design.
Beginner art supplies advice is everywhere, and almost none of it actually tells you what to buy or why. After experimenting with more mediums than anyone should admit to, six rules emerged that apply no matter where your art journey takes you.
One artist's honest confession about falling deep into the gear myth trap, from a single sketchpad to multiple storage bins, and how art supply overwhelm nearly ended her creative journey.
Everyone knows the trick: close your eyes and picture something. Sheep jumping a fence. A beach. A loved one's face. I have never once been able to do that. This is what it is actually like to live with aphantasia.