Five Art Accounts You Need to be Following to Improve Your Skills
Are you still following all your high school friends that you never talk to and barely remember? Mix up your timeline with some actual good content that will prescribe you a daily dose of inspiration.
ONE: SamDoesArts
Sam Yang is a mega-talented 23-year-old from Toronto, Canada. Sam’s effortless style coupled with his devastatingly beautiful color selection will send your inspiration receptacles into overdrive. He somehow manages to combine a cartoonistic style with textures that look so real it almost tricks the mind into thinking you’re looking at a photo.
Platforms graced by his presence: Instagram, Patreon, Youtube, Twitter, and Pinterest.
TWO: Borodonte
Borodante (Daniel Sherekin) is supremely gifted at the technical aspects of painting. Hailing from Ukraine, he has a delightful accent with which he uses to gently roast the paintings that his fans submit to him on his Patreon for his Over Pain (overpainting) Youtube series. One of the hardest aspects of painting is proportions and lighting. Borodante shows how to use correct lighting and shape design in order to create the most visually dynamic art, no matter what style of art you do. Platforms graced by his presence: Youtube (on which he is most active), Instagram, Patreon, and Twitter.
THREE: Avvart
Aleksei Vinogradov crafted his own digital brushes with which he creates deliciously smooth-looking paintings with beautiful paper textures in the background. His unique approach to digital painting fuses the effortlessness of digital with the satisfying feel of traditional. You don’t want to miss out on what else this talented man comes up with! Platforms graced by his presence: Instagram, Patreon, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest, Art Station, and DeviantArt.
FOUR: Paintable
Paintable is an educational digital painting website that posts fantastic content to their social media, including mini-tutorials and a marvelous curated collection of talented artists' work. It’s nice to see creators getting appreciation, and even nicer to have a source of amazing art to be inspired by! Platforms graced by their presence: Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, and of course their website.
FIVE: Angel Ganev
Angel Ganev is a Bulgarian artist you need to follow purely for his hilarious approach to learning art. He is a spunky character that has a gift for composition. His color selection is vivid and eye-catching. If you’re ever in a rut and don’t feel like practicing art, take a gander at his videos, they are sure to get you chuckling right back to your sketchbook! Platforms graced by his presence: Instagram, Patreon, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest, Art Station, and DeviantArt.
Learning a skill is all about baby steps. Following these five accounts is a great step towards your artistic goals. Surround yourself with the tools to succeed, and you are on your way!
