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Online art classes for Illustration, Character Design, Fine Arts, and more Open figure drawing livestream every Thursday with #drawinghive https://linktr.ee/visualartspassage

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We can’t wait for this one!!!

08.05.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My β€œThe Little Mermaid” book raised 21k on Kickstarter.
Learn how I did it and the art of crowdfunding with my live online mentor workshop with Visual Arts Passage. (@visualartspassage.bsky.social)

Enroll here: visualartspassage.com/workshops/ar...

08.05.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Preview
Art of Crowdfunding Course β€” All Major Platforms β€” Live & Online Learn how to craft a compelling campaign, engage supporters, and confidently navigate every stage of a successful crowdfunding launch.

Absolutely can’t wait for this one to kick off. @ashlylovett.bsky.social knows how to move the needle when it comes to launching personal projects and this course brings that to life for the students. visualartspassage.com/art-of-crowd...

05.05.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poster-style illustration with Din Djarin, Grogu, K2SO, and C-3PO.

Poster-style illustration with Din Djarin, Grogu, K2SO, and C-3PO.

Finally got a bit of character design work! Can't wait to share what I'm working on. In the meantime, here's a late #starwars #WIP from the sketch session with @visualartspassage.bsky.social.

05.05.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW ART! πŸ’™ Alternate cover illustration for 'The Left Hand of Darkness', by Ursula K. Le Guin. Made as personal project for my portfolio, with guidance by John English and Dale Stephanos at @visualartspassage.bsky.social

13.03.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Really really late photo drawing for #drawinghive241 , doing the Gemstones in Righteous gold acrylic.
If I could put a song on this, it would be 'Unholy'
This is Edi Patterson, Danny McBride, and Adam Devine.

@visualartspassage.bsky.social #therighteousgemstones #acrylicpainting #drawinghive

18.03.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a blog post for sure!

02.05.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Nighttime photograph of a forest. In the foreground, there is a paint pan and easel with a sketchbook clipped open. The sketchbook has a painting of the scene in the background, which is a white sheet stretched between two trees with a blue light in front of it.

Nighttime photograph of a forest. In the foreground, there is a paint pan and easel with a sketchbook clipped open. The sketchbook has a painting of the scene in the background, which is a white sheet stretched between two trees with a blue light in front of it.

Insect light trapping and painting time. #sciart

29.04.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Willem dafoe in Nosferatu 2024 digital painted in photoshop, based on a still from the movie trailer with the background wallpaper rolling into waves added

Willem dafoe in Nosferatu 2024 digital painted in photoshop, based on a still from the movie trailer with the background wallpaper rolling into waves added

More photo drawing with @visualartspassage.bsky.social for #drawinghive doing #nosferatu this week! Testing out how different it looks between here and instagram! Showing #willemdafoe I’m guessing he’s the vampire hunter? Looks great so far! #drawinghive230

12.12.2024 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More photo #drawinghive with @visualartspassage.bsky.social, late again, but it's #drawinghive235 (# rhyming hashtags)! We were doing photos from #severance. There were a lot of good ones, I was trying to do an easy one with #dichenlachman

03.02.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who needs this planet for their next painting?

24.01.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keep your afternoon clear tomorrow, we're returning for a new HALLOWEEN session of 🐝 🐝 DRAWING HIVE🐝 🐝 🐝. It's always a treat seeing these revisiting artists every week, @viktorfarro's work is a real treat.
@4pm PT (7pm ET).

visualartspassage.com/drawing-hive/

25.10.2023 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Raymond Bonilla had the privilege of interviewing creature designer and digital sculptor, Glen Southern for Studio Bridge.

Glen runs SouthernGFX, a Cheshire-based studio specializing in character and creature concept art, creating high-end digital assets for tv and film. tinyurl.com/3n8hewck

24.10.2023 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here is a really lovely cover piece created by one of our current illustration students, Galen Dara for "Daughter of Redwinter", by Ed McDonald and published by Tir.

Check out more of her work here! www.galendara.com

23.10.2023 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SUCH EXPRESSIVE CARICATURES!

23.10.2023 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We've got a brand new, terribly SPOOKY episode of 🐝Drawing Hive🐝 up on the docket tomorrow. Same place, same time. We're delving into one of the very best of horror comedy.
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The show starts at 4pm PT (7pm ET). Be sure to register!

18.10.2023 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love how this dramatic portrait reveals Jon's educational roots in illustration with the @illustrationacademy. πŸ”₯

17.10.2023 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you guess which VAP mentor has a birthday today?
The GOAT, Sterling Hundley from the illustration program!

If you haven't yet, we recommend his deeply insightful collection of writing on creativity and process. thinklouder.substack.com

14.10.2023 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This mark-making is on point. Beautiful work.

14.10.2023 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tis the spooky season artist fam. πŸ‚πŸ‘» This particular piece by Ashly Lovett actually began as a demo from one of her first guest-speaking sessions years ago with us. It goes to show how catching these guest-sessions can really give you some invaluable insights into an artist's process.

11.10.2023 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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You have 6 days left to sign-up for the Fall Semester! Deadline is October 6th.

Don't miss out on our game-changing mentorship programs that have seen so many students rise up into the industry.
visualartspassage.com

πŸ–ΌοΈJon Neimeister @andantonius.bsky.social (Fundamentals of Character Design)

29.09.2023 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Shame, it's a really cool piece. And no! I did not!

29.09.2023 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is very true.

29.09.2023 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhh, nothing like a clean slate.

I dedicate this post to the incredible mentors and students of Visual Arts Passage. Time to spill our art into another little corner of the internet. πŸ”₯

29.09.2023 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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