I help creatives build and monetize their digital art skills. I send out a freebie, quick tip or tutorial every Tuesday to make learning digital art fun and approachable.
Find your art style FAST ⚡
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Developing a distinctive personal art style creates new opportunities, gets your work recognized + identifiable, creates impact, builds relationships *and* can help you to make clearer decisions about where you’ll go next creatively. The trouble is, when you start trying to figure out what that style could look like for you, the possibilities can be paralyzing. There are so many things you like, but what parts can be your own without feeling like a copy of someone else? In today’s vid, we’re taking 4 steps through a simple exercise where you’ll learn how to pull the exact qualities you like about different styles and then fuse them together to create something new, distinctive and truly your own. (this is also how I break creative block when I’m in a funk) This exercise can be used with any art type (I use it for illustration, lettering and design) *and* it can be executed with anything – you can use it with a sheet of paper if that’s what you’ve got. This has been a go-to of mine for years and now it’s yours, too ❤️ ✅ What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers
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Hey! I'm Teela
I help creatives build and monetize their digital art skills. I send out a freebie, quick tip or tutorial every Tuesday to make learning digital art fun and approachable.
This started out as a summer floral pattern, but one tweak led to another and I ended up with a fancy floral pattern instead 🙃 Changing up the color palette could def still give it a summer feel, but I couldn’t resist sharing it with this one once it all came together. 😍 Pick up the free ogee symmetry block stamp below along with the colors to get started! Mentioned in this video ✅ Ogee pattern block stamp (free brush)✅ Color palette (free)✅ Bouquet Maker brush set✅ Pattern Types cheat sheet...
When I mentioned the Flower Color Guide book in my How to Find your Art Style vid, I had a few requests for more recs, so I’m here to deliver! These 7 books truly helped me to become a better floral illustrator and I’ve reached for them constantly over the years when I’ve needed inspiration or a good reference photo that didn’t come from Pinterest 🙃 In the vid, I’ve included overviews of each along with what I use them for the most. I also included a bunch of flip throughs, so get ready for...
Happy almost-Spring! With the pollen already teasing our southern noses, I’ve been working on some new floral patterns this past week and wanted to share a helpful tip! As a creative who loves working with textures, transparencies and organic shapes, I tend to create my patterns as raster (or pixel-based) first. This gives me the freedom to create my patterns exactly as I want them without being limited by the more flat-style aesthetic that comes with vectors. There are times when a vector...