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#11 Painting a stylized tree

22-09-2025 After having done exercise after exercise, I found that was losing a lot of spontaneity in my artwork. So here was a little exercise that I did to get some expression back, while still trying to retain a fixed workflow. Read more…

#10 Painting metal

21-09-2025 Metal has been a material that I’ve always found hard to paint, until I figured it out. Here are some techniques that might be useful to you. Read more…

#09 Understanding reflections

20-09-2025 Not an exercise, but an instructive manual I made a couple of years back on understanding reflections in water. Read more…

#08 Value edges

1-06-2023
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MastoArtStudy Exercise #08
Exercise number 8! We’re going to look at value edge control. Read more…

#07 Color theory

29-03-2023
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MastoArtStudy Exercise #07
Exercise number 7! We’re going to delve into the topic of Color Theory. Read more…

#06 Shading

15-02-2023
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MastoArtStudy Exercise #06
Exercise number 6! We’re going to look at shading and shade a drawing I’ve made! Read more…

#05 Value and saturation

10-01-2023
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MastoArtStudy Exercise #05
Exercise number 5! We’re taking a deep dive in value and saturation! Read more…

#04 Light and shadow

10-01-2023
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MastoArtStudy Exercise #04
Exercise number 4! We’re moving on to the next chapter: Light and Shadow! Read more…

#03 Constructing complex shapes

20-12-2022
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MastoArtStudy Exercise #03
Exercise number 3! This time we’ll be drawing animals using simple shapes. Read more…

#02 Perspective

06-12-2022
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MastoArtStudy Exercise #02
So here is exercise Number 2! You’ll be given three subjects drawn only from the front and the side and you have to drawn them in two point perspective. Read more…

#01 Primary shapes

22-11-2022
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MastoArtStudy Exercise #01
So here it finally is! The first exercise of #MastoArtStudy. We’re going to start at the basics, practicing the fundamental skills of drawing cubes, cilinders, spheres and cones, and using these to construct our subjects that we want to draw. Read more…