Holly Does Art

Rereading Harry Potter is always so magical 🧙🏻‍♀️🐉🦉

I'm going to give a tutorial today of how to digitally paint something like my "You Mean Impassible" painting. I did a scene from my favorite story, Alice in Wonderland, but you can apply these techniques to any painting you do. "Why it's simply impassible!"  "Why, don't you mean impossible?"  "No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!” First of all, with any digital painting, you must have a drawing tablet. It makes things so much easier. You can find a whole range of tablet prices, but I use a Cintiq, which is a screen you draw directly on. I recommend looking for used ones on Ebay if it's something you're interested in! Cintiq Wacom Huion I like to paint in Photoshop, but you can use any drawing software you prefer. If you do have Photoshop, my favorite brushes are by Kyle Webster.  I highly recommend purchasing his megapack, as it includes a variety of style of brushes. Okay, that...

Hey guys. I’m excited to announce that I wrote a book. And this book has pages. And I am currently illustrating said book. This is the cover (although it will be colored eventually). I hope to release it for your reading pleasure very soon! 🖤🖋📖

I am going to start doing regular blog posts on HDA to help out fellow artists. One of my biggest issues as an up and coming artist was artist's/writer's block. This happened to me severely after I was rejected from many, many jobs and I was going to portfolio reviews all the time. I also was going through personal problems, including a death in the family and a terrible breakup. I began to feel paralyzed in my work. Some artists would tell me x was wrong with my work, but others would say x was perfect and y was wrong. At one review, the artist would tell me to change something, but the next one would tell me to change it back. My art got more and more stiff - which of course, then I was criticized for that. It felt like I couldn't do anything right at all. I got over it through reading these books. They helped me immensely. I also decided that while reviews and critiques are helpful, they are just suggestions, and in the end, my artwork isn't going to pleas...

I'm going to start releasing daily sketchbook practice. Here is a watercolor from today.