Welcome to a new episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, where Haydn shares his advice, tips and experience within the world of art and creativity. In today's episode, join Haydn as he shares his step-by-step tips to help you draw the head from the front. Learn how to create solid foundations, how to build on this structure, and where the facial features sit. Follow Haydn: twitter.com/haydnsym www.instagram.com/haydnsymons www.facebook.com/haydnsymonsillustration 🎨 Haydn's Illustration Portfolio:...
Oct 17, 2023•10 min
Welcome to a new episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, where Haydn shares his advice, tips and experience within the world of art and creativity. In today's episode, join Haydn as he shares his invaluable expertise on the art of painting with gouache on watercolour paper. Haydn's journey with gouache painting wasn't always smooth sailing. Like many artists and illustrators, he faced numerous challenges, made mistakes, and experienced moments of frustration. However, these experiences paved the w...
Sep 14, 2023•9 min
Within this podcast episode of The Creative Edge, Haydn shares 5 common beginner drawing mistakes that you need to avoid. There are a number of common drawing mistakes that beginners fall into. Revealing his personal insights, Haydn shares solutions to these problems. From progressing to the details too quickly, inaccurate proportions, to errors in perspective, there's lots of ways you can improve your drawing skill. Learn the mistakes that Haydn personally made, so you don't have to make the sa...
Aug 15, 2023•7 min
Within this podcast episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares his top tips to help you learn how to radically improve your colour within your art, illustrations, to designs by using organic greys. Grey has been used by famous past and present artists to create visual masterpieces. However, for a lot of beginners and even experts in the artistic field can disregard how powerful grey is. Instead of mixing your grey with black and white, Haydn shares his formula for creating organic greys ...
Aug 02, 2023•6 min
Within this podcast episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares his tips to help you discover and learn how to draw a box in perspective. Perspective is important as it can transform your artworks to be more realistic and three-dimensional. Think about the famous artists or illustrators that you love, (depending on their style) they have most probably mastered perspective to heighten their artistic skills. Haydn's illustration work has gone from strength to strength after learning perspec...
Jul 24, 2023•13 min
Haydn dramatically levelled up his art and illustration after he learnt all about perspective. The great news is that it can be the same for you too! He studied the great masters, discovered the horizon line, and learnt about one, two and three point perspective. Taking all of this knowledge, Haydn has created this new podcast episode to help you learn all about two point perspective. If you're stuck with perspective and want to learn in an easy and simple way, you've come to the right place. Wi...
Jun 21, 2023•5 min
Do you want to learn how to think of creative ideas, which are completely 'out of the box'? Thinking of ideas is at the cornerstone of most (if not all) creative pursuits. However, it can sometimes feel like you're hitting your head on the desk, trying to think of these radical ideas. Help is at hand! Within this episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares his expert knowledge to help you think outside the box by improving your idea generation. It's a tactic and device which Haydn has use...
May 02, 2023•7 min
Whether you're a designer, illustrator, to artist, drawing is at the heart of most creative pursuits. Sometimes though, your drawings can feel like something a 1 year old would create! Don't worry, we've all been there. However, help is at hand. Within this episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares his expert knowledge to help you improve your drawing accuracy and proportions. From vertical lines, how objects relate to one another, and measuring, this podcast episode will help you impro...
Mar 30, 2023•12 min
To improve your art, a great place to start is by learning the inside outs of perspective. At the core of perspective is the horizon line. What is the horizon line, and why is it fundamental to most drawings. If you want to grow your art, and take it to the next level, a great place to start is the horizon line. In today's episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares his expert knowledge into perspective and the horizon line. Discover why it's important, how to create one yourself, and lot...
Feb 21, 2023•8 min
Colour plays an important role in strong image creation. Regardless if you're an artist, illustrator to designer, you will come across colour at some point in your creative pursuits. In order to get to grips with colour, and what makes good colour, the first stage is the colour wheel. Within the colour wheel is tertiary colours, which in today's episode you will learn all about. You can make tertiary colours by mixing a primary colour (yellow), with a secondary colour (orange). All good things c...
Jan 31, 2023•9 min
If you want to improve your colour theory, look no further than this podcast episode! Helping you discover all about analogous colours, the colour wheel and levelling up your use of colour. Analogous colours are found on the same spectrum of the colour wheel. Think orange, yellow and red. This colour selection has been used by past and present artists to create stunning artworks. Within this episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares his expert tips to help you learn analogous colours. D...
Dec 22, 2022•9 min
Triadic colours are three equally spaced colours located on the colour wheel, forming a triangle. Triadic colours are great colour devices, which you can use in your art, illustrations to designs. In today's episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn discusses triadic colour schemes. Learn what triadic colours are, tips to create your own, and uncover famous artists that have used this colour scheme. Improve your own colour theory today! Follow Haydn: https://twitter.com/haydnsym https://www.in...
Dec 07, 2022•10 min
Learn all about complimentary colours within this episode of The Creative Edge podcast. Discover about the colour wheel, primary colours, and how to level up your colour theory within your art! 🎨 Haydn's Illustration Portfolio: ● bit.ly/2GVxNaU 🔥 Learn more even more content on Haydn's blog: ● haydnsymons.com/blog 🖼️ Haydn's Shop: ● etsy.com/uk/shop/HaydnSymons 🎥 The Portrait Guru YT Channel ● bit.ly/3uJm7Rj
Oct 06, 2022•4 min
What is ghosting? No - not the type of ghosting when someone doesn't text you back, but is a great technique when you're learning to draw. Ghosting is the art of motioning a drawing stroke 1 - 5cm away from the drawing material, three to five times, before committing to the stroke on the sixth. Within this podcast episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn shares how to improve your drawing skill with the art of ghosting. Improve your line quality, drawing confidence, and overall skill, with th...
Aug 29, 2022•4 min
In order to take your art to the next level, you need to learn from the very best. From YouTube videos, blogs, to podcasts like this one, reading is one way to propel your artistic skills. Haydn loves reading, and has developed a deep daily reading habit which has helped him in all walks of life. One of Haydn's favourite books is James Gurney's 'Colour & Light - A Guide For The Realist Painter'. A great book for painters, illustrators, to creatives to help improve your art. Within this podca...
Feb 12, 2022•10 min
To advance in any walk of life, whether that be personal or professional, you need consistent habits to ensure strong, progressive results. Habits are the bread and butter of drawing, helping you in all of your creative pursuits. In today's episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn shares his top tips to help you create a daily drawing habit. Drawing is the backbone of most creative pursuits, especially useful for those of you who are artists, illustrators to even designers. Let this podcast e...
Jan 03, 2022•7 min
Gouache is a wonderful painting medium, which past and present artists have used to create painting masterpieces. However, especially for beginners, gouache can be a real nightmare. But don't worry, help is at hand to help improve your paintings! On this episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn shares his top gouache tricks and tips to help you improve your art. From using bigger brushes, composition tips, to using the right painting tools, check out this episode to take your paintings to the...
Dec 19, 2021•10 min
If you're a digital artist, illustrator, or want to learn the Adobe Creative Suite, this podcast episode is for you! As Adobe Illustrator has a lot of features (which is common with a lot of Adobe products), you can easily miss some really powerful tools. These Adobe Illustrator tools can take your digital artworks to the next level, and has helped me with my own digital illustrations. On this episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn shares his top 5 underrated Adobe Illustrator Tools. This e...
Apr 10, 2021•7 min
Compositions can either make or break your art. Create a weak compositional image, and viewers won't engage. However, if you were to nail your compositions, people will flock to your art! If you want to radially improve your art, make learning composition high up on your list. From Vincent Van Gogh, Rembrandt, to Caravaggio, these artistic legends all created artworks which has stood the test of time. Mainly due to their colour, craftsmanship, with a big load of compositional skill. On this epis...
Jan 23, 2021•7 min
Freelancing can be difficult. As rejections are part and parcel of the job, it can be tough to keep up the motivation and self-belief. Not allowing yourself to be dejected by rejection, or take it personally. Haydn has certainly been there, but if you want to be a freelancer, then you need to keep this motivation and drive, then when you are rejected. Within this episode of The Creative Edge Podcast, Haydn Symons shares his first hand experience to help you with freelancing rejection. Discover H...
Dec 06, 2020•8 min
Drawing is a fundamental skill to many creative individuals. From artists, illustrators to designers, having a strong drawing skill can set you apart from the crowd. Haydn's drawing skill went from strength to strength with this one drawing tip alone, and you can take your own skill to the next level. Within this episode of The Creative Edge podcast, Haydn Symons shares 1 powerful tip to improve your drawing, painting and artistic creations. This drawing tip looks at how practising (without a go...
Nov 02, 2020•7 min
Composition can either make or break any piece of art. Strong compositional knowledge is a fundamental skill, that when mastered, can take your art to new levels. If you think to the most famous artists of our time, effective composition was at the heart of their work. This ultimately made their work stand out, and is still talked about today. If you want your art to follow in the same direction, learning about composition will help you do just that. Haydn Symons shares his expert knowledge to h...
Sep 24, 2020•4 min
In order to for your drawing skill to improve and evolve, you need a strong, consistent drawing habit. Life gets in the way, and sometimes you may find it difficult to fit drawing into your busy schedule. However, help is at hand, wit shares his expert tips and tricks to help you draw more when you're struggling for time. These drawing tips can make sure you schedule time to do the thing you love: draw! Within this quick-fire podcast episode, you will learn 3 important drawing tips; scheduling t...
Jul 14, 2020•4 min
