Lol, I saw the thumbnail in my inbox and thought "Wow, Pete would love this!" He has a really good podcast about the freelance life if you're interested.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!

It's called One Fantastic Week on Youtube and their website. No actual art advice, but they talk about stuff like convention setups and managing a fanbase. Useful stuff.

Awesome man thank you!

on the topic of meaningful relationships between shapes, the letters in the paragraphs are spaced extremely close to the point of straining legibility. In the future some more generous tracking would help here. :)

Aaah shit I knew I should have changed that up. I'll make an edit and reupload it

Thank you very much for sharing this. This helped me realize something very basic I did wrong with my painting process. I don't know if I would have noticed it without you. I'm grateful for this. (:

Oh thank you very much for letting me know! Out of curiosity what were you having trouble with?

I had a few people mention that my paintings look like I didn't vary my brush size. When looking at your study here, I noticed that I usually aim to arrive at a similar final result, but I do that without ever having a step before the finished painting with as strong shapes as you present in your 3 value breakdown. Details like you describe in the rocks couldn't even arise with my work, because I never had fine lines like that show visible rhythm in the flow of the picture. So I tried to replicate a 3 value study like you did here and it became apparent very quickly that mine was lacking in a lot of aspects. I described it as "I'm frustrated with how bad I am at drawing" to some friends and one pointed out once again that my lines all looked like they have the same thickness. And from there a friend of mine was able to discern that I set up my pen pressure up badly.

In short, my compositions where weak because I didn't utilize thin lines in compositional shapes enough.

I hope that makes sense. I'm not very good at putting high artistic concepts into words. d:

it's such a shame this guy's work is only publicly available in literal thumbnail sizes. :( having a high resolution high diagonal monitor and being visually impaired, it's impossible for me to really look at the art properly at that size.
thank you for the breakdown though- it was informative.) though i had to squint a lot to read the text, woops.

also, for the color thing with the reds- i think it's to create both contrast and balance- when looking at the rocks and the colors used there, it made sense to me why the red is there.