2021 has been a great year for me so far. I’ve been busy and made some cool stuff and wanted to share some of that with you.
I’ve been shooting and releasing a bunch of new Reference.Pictures content. Just this morning I released the 5th new pack this year. I’m aiming to do weekly releases on every Tuesday. I decided not to spam this list with every one of those because that seemed a little excessive, but if you do want notifications of them be sure to also sign up for the gumroad mailing list over there.
I broke my website (intentionally). I find that every few years I get antsy and want a big change on there, so I scrapped most of what I had and am starting fresh. I thought now was a good time because after this past year my identity as an artist has changed quite a bit. I’m still figuring out what I am now, but I know I’m not the same freelance artist I was before.
I started streaming some of my studies on youtube last week. I’ve been doing daily studies for all of January and managed to do over 200 figure drawings. While that’s been fun, I do like getting to interact with people too. So I tried streaming and had a really good time. I’m going to do more of that this week. I don’t have a schedule or anything yet so just subscribe on youtube to find out when I’m streaming. You can watch the first couple streams here and here.
I started a small paid discord server for people who are dedicated to learning and studying art. I’ll be in there learning with everyone else as well as sharing my favorite resources, critiquing others, and trying to nurture an encouraging, positive community. You can also sign up on there if you’d like updates about what I’m doing through discord.
That about does it for me. It’s been a busy month but it’s been a damn good start to this new year for me.
Hope you’ve been well and thank you again for being here supporting me. You rock.