Saturday was “sketch group” night, well group is being a bit optimistic; it was really just me, which was fine even though I had a long day. If I knew no one would show up, I would have stayed home and slept but, my ever positive wife suggested that I continue …
Category Archive: general thoughts
Mar 24
Day 1
This is a value tone sketch I work on yesterday; it was base off reference until I lost the reference and had to finish it from memory. The end results of the piece looks pretty good, I wasn’t going for ultra-realistic imagery or anything, I was thinking on the lines of a charcoal and …
Feb 22
Wreck it!
Hello people I’m not a big fan of Disney, use to be when I was a kid; Well that statement doesn’t make any sense in today’s world considering they own everything now. No, no, not going to talk about the corporate blob that is the house of the mouse; actually I’m here to give them …
Apr 17
art vs. Art
(the intellectual cage match) This is the section of my blog where I put old masters against contemporary Illustrators in a battle for supremacy. Now, you might think wait! The old masters are old masters! Who would be stupid enough to make a comparison against their master pieces and the throw away art of today? …
Apr 15
Growing pains
c. s. a. e. c. is going through growing pains some changes had to be made i’m still working on the backgrounds though, All social media account are now easily accessible and subscription is enable for rss feed. I hope you guys like the new look and if you like the banner there a desktop wallpaper of the full art work , just …
Nov 23
Painter breaths life a new
My foray into painter 12… I’ve been trying out the program painter for years but never could really get past ogling all the option, I’ve been familiar with Photoshop just as long the differences between the two was yours truly actually using that program, from creating cartoons to realism. Through out those years I have …
Sep 18
The Bic pen is your friend!
the Bic pen is your friend! When I was in college, my professors always discouraged me from drawing with a Bic pen. That’s com d for you the only department that didn’t know shit about art as a whole and the business of structuring your self to …
Jul 27
the diabolical professor block ( stop it he not cute he’s evil)
Professor BLOCK ( a.k.a writer’s block; a.k.a drawer’s block; a.k.a creative killer) Ok, let’s jump into today’s post… There’s a demon that most non- artists don’t know about. It creates absolute hell on the creative process, rearing its nondescript head at the most inconvenient time (can you say, ”deadlines”) causing you to produce underwhelming work in …
Jul 24
til’am enter the world of concepts.
Welcome to Til’am studio’s blog “Coffee Stains and Eye Crust” ! I’m writing this blog as a “process” blog where I will be working on new ideas from concept to finish. If I have an interesting project so to speak, I will let you into my head to discover how I approach some of this stuff. Now …





