My “The Little Mermaid” book raised 21k on Kickstarter. Learn how I did it and the art of crowdfunding with my live online mentor workshop with Visual Arts Passage. (@visualartspassage.bsky.social) Enroll here: visualartspassage.com/workshops/ar...

Absolutely can’t wait for this one to kick off. @ashlylovett.bsky.social knows how to move the needle when it comes to launching personal projects and this course brings that to life for the students. visualartspassage.com/art-of-crowd...

Finally got a bit of character design work! Can't wait to share what I'm working on. In the meantime, here's a late #starwars #WIP from the sketch session with @visualartspassage.bsky.social.

NEW ART! 💙 Alternate cover illustration for 'The Left Hand of Darkness', by Ursula K. Le Guin. Made as personal project for my portfolio, with guidance by John English and Dale Stephanos at @visualartspassage.bsky.social

Really really late photo drawing for #drawinghive241 , doing the Gemstones in Righteous gold acrylic. If I could put a song on this, it would be 'Unholy' This is Edi Patterson, Danny McBride, and Adam Devine. @visualartspassage.bsky.social #therighteousgemstones #acrylicpainting #drawinghive

Insect light trapping and painting time. #sciart

More photo drawing with @visualartspassage.bsky.social for #drawinghive doing #nosferatu this week! Testing out how different it looks between here and instagram! Showing #willemdafoe I’m guessing he’s the vampire hunter? Looks great so far! #drawinghive230

More photo #drawinghive with @visualartspassage.bsky.social, late again, but it's #drawinghive235 (# rhyming hashtags)! We were doing photos from #severance. There were a lot of good ones, I was trying to do an easy one with #dichenlachman

Who needs this planet for their next painting?

Keep your afternoon clear tomorrow, we're returning for a new HALLOWEEN session of 🐝 🐝 DRAWING HIVE🐝 🐝 🐝. It's always a treat seeing these revisiting artists every week, @viktorfarro's work is a real treat. @4pm PT (7pm ET). visualartspassage.com/drawing-hive/

Raymond Bonilla had the privilege of interviewing creature designer and digital sculptor, Glen Southern for Studio Bridge. Glen runs SouthernGFX, a Cheshire-based studio specializing in character and creature concept art, creating high-end digital assets for tv and film. tinyurl.com/3n8hewck

Here is a really lovely cover piece created by one of our current illustration students, Galen Dara for "Daughter of Redwinter", by Ed McDonald and published by Tir. Check out more of her work here! www.galendara.com

SUCH EXPRESSIVE CARICATURES!

We've got a brand new, terribly SPOOKY episode of 🐝Drawing Hive🐝 up on the docket tomorrow. Same place, same time. We're delving into one of the very best of horror comedy. visualartspassage.com/photos/ The show starts at 4pm PT (7pm ET). Be sure to register!

Love how this dramatic portrait reveals Jon's educational roots in illustration with the @illustrationacademy. 🔥

Can you guess which VAP mentor has a birthday today? The GOAT, Sterling Hundley from the illustration program! If you haven't yet, we recommend his deeply insightful collection of writing on creativity and process. thinklouder.substack.com

This mark-making is on point. Beautiful work.

Tis the spooky season artist fam. 🍂👻 This particular piece by Ashly Lovett actually began as a demo from one of her first guest-speaking sessions years ago with us. It goes to show how catching these guest-sessions can really give you some invaluable insights into an artist's process.

You have 6 days left to sign-up for the Fall Semester! Deadline is October 6th. Don't miss out on our game-changing mentorship programs that have seen so many students rise up into the industry. visualartspassage.com 🖼️Jon Neimeister @andantonius.bsky.social (Fundamentals of Character Design)

Shame, it's a really cool piece. And no! I did not!

This is very true.

Ahhh, nothing like a clean slate. I dedicate this post to the incredible mentors and students of Visual Arts Passage. Time to spill our art into another little corner of the internet. 🔥