When award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, sits down to paint, he analyzes what he's looking at by going over his mental checklist: 1) shape, 2) value, and 3) temperature. In Part 6 of this mini series, he talks about an exercise he teaches that...

Russell Dongjun Lu has an engineering degree that he didn't want and has never used. He got it out of social obligation but what he REALLY studied and worked on was his art. Since then, in the face of every challenge in his career, he let his art do the...

Is it naturally ingrained in us to associate certain feelings with certain colors? In Part 4 of this mini series, veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes, gets to the core of the relationship between emotion and color and issues a challenge to help you...

For Loic Zimmermann, it has been a long climb from a life of manual labor in Champagne to becoming a designer for Hollywood blockbusters to filmmaker. In this interview, he traces the connections and reactions that make up his colorful career and...

Award-winning plein air painter, John Burton's contention is, there is almost no pure black or white, which makes what we interpret as black or white in a painting a kind of optical illusion. In Part 5 of this mini series, he explains how you can use...

LightBox Expo tickets on sale now at https://www.lightboxexpo.com! Davison Carvalho didn't go to art school; he learned art through passion and grind, improving out of necessity in order to scrape out work as a teen in Brazil, too young to legally earn...

In Part 3 of this mini series, veteran concept artist, Nathan Fowkes breaks down one of the assignments from his course, "Designing with Color & Light", using the same environment and creating 5 different thumbnails each with its own color...

In Part 4 of this mini series, award-winning plein air painter, John Burton, explains how the color you see isn't really the color you THINK you're seeing, which is why color is vital for authentic art.ENVIRONMENT AND...

Growing up, Neysa Bove knew she wanted to work at Disney but not what she would do there. In this interview, she tells Bobby how a Cinderella in lavender helped her become a costume designer and vis dev artist working for her idols on Moana (and other...

To get a foot in the door of the studio you want to work at, make a portfolio that targets what they look for. How do you know what that is? Well, they practically TELL YOU, and in Part 9 of this mini series, visual development artist, Victoria Ying,...