Kevin McGillivray
@schmevin.bsky.social
Artist & instructor in Wisconsin ✍️ Writing “Art Just Happens: A Life Drawing Handbook” The Timeless Way / mythic mode / conviviality I post about: Paintings, drawings, websites, creative practice
“The thing that drew me in the most wasn’t the character classes, spell lists, or monsters. It was the shopping.” open.substack.com/pub/patternw...
Enchanters
How to craft a wondrous item
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Behind the scenes at the Enchanted Table software engineering office
The owl in your neighborhood wonders about you Drawn from life at @appletondrawing.bsky.social Red Mage (Familiar, Barred Owl) Sanguine on paper 11 x 14 in. Available
My tarot and oracle deck web app is gradually coming together!
Enchanted Table@enchantedtable.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere’s a video of how the Enchanted Table virtual tabletop works for a reading! You can arrange cards as you like, and also create your own custom decks and cards.
“If I’m not gentle with myself, that feeling can stop me from moving the pencil at all, so I have to give myself plenty of encouragement. The main thing I have to rely on is small inklings of desires or curiosity that hint toward possible next steps.” open.substack.com/pub/patternw...
Autoritratto
On self portraits
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Cursed to touch all the stones open.substack.com/pub/patternw... (On the encouragement of friends, this is my first subscribers-only newsletter. I’m experimenting with a behind the scenes studio journal, and more regular public posts on creative practice and art. Hope you’ll join me!)
Cursed to touch all the stones
Dig them up and give them to me
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"This is my favorite tree. I love it for its visual splendor, the way the branches twist and flow out and I have to spin around to follow them. Its canopy creates a room, and its double trunk creates a chair." open.substack.com/pub/patternw...
Scots Pine
My favorite tree
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apple photos decided to make a slideshow of protests I’ve gone to for the last 10 years so that’s nice
Drawing portraits from RedditGetsDrawn! youtu.be/2Yt0EybYiCk?...
Drawing from RedditGetsDrawn
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Warming up my YouTube channel with a video sharing one of my favorite drawing exercises! youtu.be/XV7S5ux9b1M?...
Unreasonably fun drawing exercise
YouTube video by Kevin McGillivray
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All we want is the winged victory Figure study in Procreate with Lane Brown’s charcoal brush pack
I’m writing a life drawing book! It’s a companion to bring with you to life drawing to find inspiration and exercises to keep your practice fresh, grow your observational skills, and get encouragement in your creative practice. Want to help? Send me a DM! Looking for folks to test draft exercises 😄
i like how all art forms are basically humans organizing stimuli for their senses into pleasing structures and flows
At a life drawing session I made drawing in sanguine that became the visual direction for a new series titled Red Mage. I loved the brilliant red contrasted with the paper, and the immediacy of the study. The series gradually grew in the studio during what I called “sanguine summer.”
Within the Oxenham Arms in the village of South Zeal, Devon is The ‘Roman Pillar' propping up the roof in the restaurant at the rear of the pub. In the next room is an enormous Menhir built into the fabric of the wall too. One pub - two standing stones.
realizing the first thing you should do for any idea / interest you have is find the niche discord server / forum that has a small but active and encouraging community related to that thing
chasing the high of reading the D&D equipment list table for the first time and deciding what to spend my 12gp on
I’m gradually settling on a local-first approach to Enchanted Table, my virtual tabletop web app for tarot and oracle decks. Your readings, cards, and decks are your own data, the value of saving to a remote database is primarily data backup and easy access across devices.
the tarot / oracle deck web app I’ve been working on is gradually starting to feel juicier
