Gary's story:
BeginningArtist.com exists
because Gary made the same mistakes
you’re making.
I'm Gary Gumble, artist, former illustrator, and now passionate mentor helping adult aspiring artists free the artist inside them.
The desire to help aspiring artists grew from the journey I’ve taken to free the artist inside me.
The young Gary you see here was raised in a small working-class town in Pennsylvania where he couldn’t even imagine the possibility of a life creating art.
Until
The day in high school drafting class I saw a wonderful watercolor painting of fishing lures done by a student at a nearby community college.
That little painting awoke a desire in me I didn’t know I had.
It started me on the path to learning how to create art my way, not just wishing I could. A path I’m still following today.
Only now I devote my 40+ years of experience to helping adult aspiring artists create art with skill, confidence and imagination.
Because I’ve seen too many aspiring artists with a strong desire to express themselves through art end up struggling for years.
And those struggles aren’t because they lack “talent.”
Those struggles are because they’re falling victim to the same mistakes I made many years ago when...
After 18 years as an illustrator, I left that field to return to my fine art roots.
I thought my BFA degree from Minneapolis College of Art and Design would make that transition easy.
It didn’t, because as I made the switch, I made two ginormous mistakes.
First, I assumed fine art had to be much easier than the competitive world of illustration.
And second, I assumed I didn’t need to use the same process I’d relied on as an illustrator.
Boy, was I wrong!!
Those mistakes cost me months of confidence-crushing struggle and self-doubt. It seemed like half the work I started ended up in the garbage.
All because I was unconsciously trying to shortcut the fundamentals for creating successful art.
When I finally stopped and took an honest look at what I was doing...
I...was...f**king...shocked!
I was making such basic, fixable mistakes! But I also realized the reason I saw those mistakes was my years of illustration experience.
That’s when it hit me.
If I could fall into that trap... It had to be a hundred times easier for a beginning artist to make those same mistakes...
And never understand what was wrong.
I saw that happening over and over in two local art groups I joined. Good people. Serious desire. Tons of effort... and years lost to avoidable mistakes.
That’s when I created Beginningartist.com...
To help you avoid those fatal mistakes and the struggles that go with them...
So you create exciting, successful work your way.
You make exciting, successful work possible when...
1) You learn the underlying fundamentals that apply to every medium.
Like creating an interesting composition. Like simplifying and organizing the values in your subject so your work has impact.
2) You know how to put your own voice in your work.
Your best art is not just an exact copy of what you see. Your best art results when you learn to put your own thoughts, feelings, and imagination in your work.
Pssst, you can see more of my art Here.
So, if you want...
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