If you want to improve your colour theory, look no further than this podcast episode! Helping you discover all about analogous colours, the colour wheel and levelling up your use of colour.

Analogous colours are found on the same spectrum of the colour wheel. Think orange, yellow and red. This colour selection has been used by past and present artists to create stunning artworks.

Within this episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares his expert tips to help you learn analogous colours. Discover what they are, how you can create your own, and how it can improve your own colour theory.

Famous artists talked about in this show:

Vincent Van Gogh – Sunflowers (1888 – 1889)

Claude Monet – Waterloo Bridge, Overcast Weather Two (1899 – 1901)

Rembrandt – The Return of the Prodigal Son (1661–1669)

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Triadic colours are three equally spaced colours located on the colour wheel, forming a triangle. Triadic colours are great colour devices, which you can use in your art, illustrations to designs.

In today's episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn discusses triadic colour schemes. Learn what triadic colours are, tips to create your own, and uncover famous artists that have used this colour scheme. Improve your own colour theory today!

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Learn all about complimentary colours within this episode of The Creative Edge podcast. Discover about the colour wheel, primary colours, and how to level up your colour theory within your art!

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What is ghosting? No - not the type of ghosting when someone doesn't text you back, but is a great technique when you're learning to draw.

Ghosting is the art of motioning a drawing stroke 1 - 5cm away from the drawing material, three to five times, before committing to the stroke on the sixth.

Within this podcast episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares how to improve your drawing skill with the art of ghosting. Improve your line quality, drawing confidence, and overall skill, with this one simple but highly effective technique!

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In order to take your art to the next level, you need to learn from the very best. From YouTube videos, blogs, to podcasts like this one, reading is one way to propel your artistic skills.

Haydn loves reading, and has developed a deep daily reading habit which has helped him in all walks of life. One of Haydn's favourite books is James Gurney's 'Colour & Light - A Guide For The Realist Painter'. A great book for painters, illustrators, to creatives to help improve your art.

Within this podcast episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn shares his book review of the book, his key takeaways and insight. Find out what he thinks about the book, who the book is for, and his rating out of 5.

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To advance in any walk of life, whether that be personal or professional, you need consistent habits to ensure strong, progressive results. Habits are the bread and butter of drawing, helping you in all of your creative pursuits.

In today's episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn shares his top tips to help you create a daily drawing habit. Drawing is the backbone of most creative pursuits, especially useful for those of you who are artists, illustrators to even designers. Let this podcast episode help you if you're frustrated by not keeping up with your goals and habits.

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Gouache is a wonderful painting medium, which past and present artists have used to create painting masterpieces. However, especially for beginners, gouache can be a real nightmare. But don't worry, help is at hand to help improve your paintings!

On this episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn shares his top gouache tricks and tips to help you improve your art. From using bigger brushes, composition tips, to using the right painting tools, check out this episode to take your paintings to the next level.

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If you're a digital artist, illustrator, or want to learn the Adobe Creative Suite, this podcast episode is for you! As Adobe Illustrator has a lot of features (which is common with a lot of Adobe products), you can easily miss some really powerful tools.

These Adobe Illustrator tools can take your digital artworks to the next level, and has helped me with my own digital illustrations. On this episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn shares his top 5 underrated Adobe Illustrator Tools. This episode is perfect for Adobe Illustrator beginners, to help you learn the insides and outs of the product. However it can also be eye-opening for more advanced users, looking to advance their skills.

Join Haydn by uncovering some of these tools!

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Compositions can either make or break your art. Create a weak compositional image, and viewers won't engage. However, if you were to nail your compositions, people will flock to your art! If you want to radially improve your art, make learning composition high up on your list.

From Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt, to Caravaggio, these artistic legends all created artworks which has stood the test of time. Mainly due to their colour, craftsmanship, with a big load of compositional skill.

On this episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn shares his top tips to help you improve your artistic compositions. From using right angles, the golden ratio, to the rule of thirds, improve your art with these expert tips and tricks.

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Freelancing can be difficult. As rejections are part and parcel of the job, it can be tough to keep up the motivation and self-belief. Not allowing yourself to be dejected by rejection, or take it personally.

Haydn has certainly been there, but if you want to be a freelancer, then you need to keep this motivation and drive, then when you are rejected.

Within this episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn Symons shares his first hand experience to help you with freelancing rejection. Discover Haydn's tips and tricks to not only help you to deal with rejection, but to overcome it, and guarantee more success in the future.

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