PaperDemon blog
Art resources, tutorials, articles, and events to help motivate artists like you to become more awesome. We post a new article about once a week.
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Why the Tumblrpocalypse makes me sad
Yesterday, tumblr announced a change to their policy, titled A better, more positive tumblr. Adult content, including sexual and explicit artwork, will no longer be allowed on their platform starting ...
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Official PaperDemon Secret Santa Art trade
'Tis the season of giving. What better way for us to give than giving the gift of our own personal creations. This is a wonderful opportunity us to get to know one another and our original or favorit...
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How Stress can Freeze Your Art Productivity
And What to Do About It Stress is something everyone in the history of existence has to deal with from time to time. And considering stress can impact the quantity and quality of our work, and stress...
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3 techniques to motivate you with your art
In my newest video, I share three motivational tips to help you get started with your artwork. Also, it's ADHD awareness month and I'll be sharing more ADHD tips throughout October.20 second ruleBody ...
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[Art Challenge] Inktober is almost here!
With October right around the corner, I figured now is a great time to get you all excited about Inktober! What is Inktober? Inktober is a movement started by Jake Parker to practice ink drawings for...
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How studying figure drawing helps you become more awesome at drawing
I don't see figure drawing studies shared from members of the Paper Demon community too often. I suspect figure drawing is one of those things artists only study if they are forced to as part of a la...
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[Art challenge] Sketch Dailies to get them pencils movin' (Aug 20)
We're doing a little art challenge as a community this week to get them pencils movin' Aug 20 - Sept 2nd UPDATE: We've extended the sketch dailies challenge to Sept 2nd, 2018 How to partici...
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How Creative People can manage the business side of a creative-based business
Are you one of the many people who have decided you want to earn a full-time living from your creative abilities - writing, drawing, photos, videos - instead of working your 9-to-5?Below is a guest po...
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Anxiety, and How to Do the Thing Anyway [mental health]
There are few things more utterly debilitating than a serious case of anxiety. Even now, I quite honestly have no idea what to write for this article and the idea of doing so ties a massive knot in m...
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Stop the head trash and improve your motivation in 2 minutes a day [mindset hack]
I've spoken to many artists who say they struggle with self confidence. You may have thoughts in your head like "There are tons of artists better than me," or "It's not going to turn out the way I ima...
