Bobby starts off Part 7 of this mini series by posing a question to veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes: if contrast is what controls the eye, why don't great artists ever use the entire value range from white to black? To explain, Nathan shares an...

As a kid, Brittany Myers was an artist in secret. At first, no one knew of her passion, not even her dad. And certainly no one knew how good she was for her age, not even Brittany herself. In this interview, she talks to Bobby about how, even as a kid,...

To award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, the gestation cycle of a painting starts with drawing, then value, then color. However, at every stage of this process, he considers design and composition--the contrast, value structure, shapes, even the...

Ahmed Aldoori has been out of the studio life for the last few years, choosing instead to build up his social media brand and support himself through Patreon. In this interview, he tells Bobby how he tamed the various monsters on this journey: anxiety,...

Scenes often take place against a backdrop of chaos. If you were the artist in charge, how would you handle it? In Part 6 of this mini series, veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes, gets to the core of managing complexities using some of his recent work...

Alena Wooten was the artistic outlier in her family. Like Bobby, she studied business in college because she didn't know art was a career option. Then all her fidgeting with Super Sculpey paid off. In this interview, she shares her origin story, how...

To award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, painting is about creating the illusion of depth, which is what atmospheric perspective is. In Part 7 of this mini series, he talks about the things to consider when communicating distance and how to...

You've probably seen Sophie Diao's art before -- and probably multiple times -- even if you don't realize it. Sophie is a Doodler at Google and in this interview she tells Bobby what it's like to be an illustrator at the #1 website in the world,...

How would you paint atmosphere in the mountains or in space where there is little to no literal atmosphere? In Part 5 of this mini series, Bobby poses this question to veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes, who gets to the core of atmosphere with an...

The great thing about art is that your interest in and passion for other, unrelated things can only improve your work. In this interview, Claire Hummel, Art Director at Campo Santo, tells Bobby how her upbringing and varied interests made her art unique...