Claire Wolf - Happy Halloween - Making COMICS and ART 292

Halloween Monsters - Making COMICS and ART 286

Fembat, Razor, Claire Wolf, THULK and More - Making COMICS and ART EP 291

Writer's Room! Episode 15: The Importance of Editors!

Art Bros #093 - How to Learn and Get Better (At Anything)

SAW We Believe in Comics Friday Night Workshops

Talented Friends - Making COMICS and ART 290

JMS Talks Comics Live: Camel Moon & Izik Bell

Devil Flyer's Revenge - Making comics and ART EP 289

Introducing Emy - Studio Synergy EP. 64

Inking a comic cover till I die Part 2 - Making COMICS and ART EP 288

All Imagination Is Stolen From Dreams - Making COMICS and ART EP 287

SPONTANEOUS STREAM SILLINESS

Halloween Monsters - Making COMICS and ART 286

You Work Hard, What Do You Expect? - Making COMICS and ART EP 285

DARKSHRINE PAGE INKS - Live Art Stream

Peter Palmiotti's Art RETROspective pt. 1

In this video I go through my Deviant Art gallery and explain each piece. 

Creating Art 3 - Tyrion Lannister sketch card

Inking BEOWAR - Making COMICS and ART EP 284

Finish HIM - Making COMICS and ART EP 283

Comicbook Inking Tutorial with Peter Palmiotti & Kenny Keen.

The Very First Issue of Aquaman I ever Inked - # 10 Volume 5

Time to Make the Comics - Making Comics and ART episode 59

cómics de la muerte episode 87: BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE with Casey Allen

Make A Little Progress Each Day - Making COMICS and ART EP 282

I Don't Wanna - Making COMICS and ART EP 281

The Morning Show #12 - Dojo Kun Comics

NEW Comic Campaigns I'm Sharing - Making COMICS and ART EP 280

Sketch Card Drawing 2:13:19 Pen and Ink Green Goblin

New Direction - Making COMICS and ART EP 279

Inking Reaper Destroyer Dale Keown Cover PT 1 - Making COMICS and ART EP...

A Mike & Austin Special | Play, Watch, Listen #117

I AM KONG

Frog G is HOPPING!

VICIOUS INK COMICS - Making COMICS and ART 277

How To Succeed In Crowdfunding - Making COMICS and ART EP 278

How To Re-Enforce Your Goals - Making COMICS and ART EP 276

PIMP YOUR COMIC - Making Comics and ART episode 40

Inking Aquaman - INK & CHILL - Making COMICS and ART EP 271

Trisha Rae Wong - Making COMICS and ART 275

4 O'CLOCK SHADOW EP. 252 PETER RETRO PALMIOTTI

4 O'CLOCK SHADOW EP. 252 PETER RETRO PALMIOTTI

Tyler Carpenter's The Girl with the Mega Fists - Making COMICS and ART E...

Blocking Out Black Areas in a Illustration - Making COMICS and ART 273

When you draw a picture, if its cover art, a pinup or even a panel from a comic book you want it to grab people's attention. Now I've seen with many who use digital tools (Use what you have I say, that's coming from someone how has been using traditional tools for going just past 3 decades.) Time and again line art of drawings where its only just that, lines. Flat lines at that. We can do better. We can add volume and depth, light and shadow. Don't just do what you know how to do, push yourself as well as your skills into areas you may never have before.

When I draw this Aquaman piece I liked the bare bones well enough, but wanted to add a bit more to it.

I wanted to block out some black areas. 

So I copied and replicated the image 6 times. Do this with your next piece of art. 

REMEMBER, the next time you see a amazing piece of art online or in a comic think about it for a second. You think they just magically applied pencil to paper the very first time and went right into inks without even a thought on how it would take shape? Without erasing? Without trial and error??

NO!

The very best artists have used all the art practices you've seen in book s and online over and over again. Mastering them, sure. So the one or even 100 times they went live streaming working on some new art they have already done it both wrong and right so they can even live make it look ever so easy.

Here is a stream I did, making the above piece with my thoughts as I went.

I hope you've learned something new here today. ...or at the very least re-learned not to take the steps for granted.

Keep making art, Peter.