I lost several pounds in a week by changing my diet. No I didn't do an exceptionally crazy diet, I just was eating really unhealthy food and I curbed that and I got immediate results from it. Really amazing stuff, I share my process behind that and my simple workout routine.

Most of the rest of the episode is about things I learned and the fails I had in the long process of doing my first drawing of the new series. I talk about texture, importance of using tools that are very basic, and most importantly trusting your gut.

10 quick digital painting tips that I would give myself today.

I’m planning an art series! This episode is all about planning an art series. Doing an art series is something that defines an artist. Do you want to be a generalist or be known for something specific?

First, we start off with some important problems i faced doing my Eza portrait this week and what I learned from them.

If you’ve been wondering who Matt is, that I talk about, you get to learn a bit about it here. Drawingtutorialsonline.com

About the series, I talk about color studies, brush palette, texture palette, etc. I mention some common problems that stand out in my work and the solutions to those. We end with what I want to learn from this new series titled "victory".

This is an important episode for me. Hope you get some ideas from it

I recently lined up my best paintings next to Bouguereau paintings and this sparked a series of observations about how professional and consistent he was and in what ways I could improve.

No. There are no mistakes in a Bouguereau painting. And that's the tone of this episode.

I've been sick with fever and cold and I'm back with this short 10min episode. Maybe it will spark some ideas about improvement!

This episode is almost entirely dedicated to the free 3d software Daz3d. Technical aspects of the software to get you started and also how to create your own body morphs. We also discuss basic 3D terms like rigging and what various maps for displacement, bump, normals, etc. do. If you are even slightly interested in the possibilities of Daz3D or plan to try it, this is a goto episode. Look up the artist Shannon Maer if interested.

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I talk about what prompted me to not bring my latest Margot drawing to a full completion, I have an important lesson to share with you from this drawing.

Then I talk about some of the major leading online educational platforms for art education and the best lectures to look out for on each of these.

-skillshare, artist's network, gnomon workshop, new masters academy, schoolism

I also talk about the new platform 'Artstation Learning' which they call it the new Netflix for art.

I share some details about the lineage of George Bridgman and his teaching method. If you like Andrew Loomis and Norman Rockwell, you will like their teacher George Bridgman.

A lot of the most successful thinkers use whiteboards. They force you to think and organize your thoughts into visual form.

Whiteboards help you constantly keep your most important dreams and goals on top, the things that matter the most, the things that make you happy, so when the opportunity to convert those into reality strikes, you grab it! The more whiteboards you have in your room, the better of a thinker you become.

I also talk about the new Bargue textbook alternative, this book is a tenth of the price of Bargue and was released just this March of 2019.

First, some stories about Eakins and Waterhouse. I just finished watching their masterclasses at DTO and I mention things I learned.

I talk about the new breakthroughs I made in digital painting with my Bouguereau study.

- The importance of painting translucently

- Limiting the opacity of brush

- The watercolor approach to digital painting

- The types of skin textures all over the human body in the different areas.

- Glazing with texture

- Importance of overlap in drawing

This is an episode that will open your eyes to a lot of different but important aspects in drawing.

This is the longest episode in my podcast series so far, it is about 17 mins long and packed with some of my favorite topics so far.

I share some points fresh out of my renewed graphite pencil experience:

-Things to consider in creating a perfect pencil brush that behaves like a real pencil in Procreate. Yes you do need prior brush making experience for this as these are just more of observations and possible solutions to those.

-The reason why I did not draw traditionally for almost 3 months