After years of manually editing my website with HTML and CSS code, I have decided finally to incorporate WordPress to make managing my blog easier. So here is my first entry with this new revamped section of the Sydney Carter Draws website. I am still re-uploading all my old entries that I had created HTML…

There are lots of art programs to use that are great depending on your application. For drawing and viewing things on a screen, Photoshop has worked great for me. The brush tool settings are great for drawing and digitally painting things that may have sharp or soft edges, for blending and layering colors together. I…

It’s Halloween Season and I love it because it’s when all the people who are secretly creative shine. I had a good friend recently introduce me to their friend during an apple picking gathering. Part of their introduction of me was that I am very artistic and had invited friends over to take turns drawing…

People undervalue the role that art plays in their everyday lives. In the past year, I have taken two international trips: one to Japan and one to Mexico. When traveling internationally, often the signs are in the primary language of the country where the airport is located, and sometimes, there are signs in English. For…

I’ve been wanting to do more scalable products with drawings that I’ve done before. As I dip my toes into expanding my product line in addition to custom character drawings, I bought some waterproof sticker vinyl paper and decided to print some of my drawings on them. I printed some of the Soul Figure drawings…

In November, I created a gif of a mermaid, featured in the Doodles exhibit! This was a project that I did in about a week, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Mermaids are a fantasy movie staple; the new Little Mermaid movie came out in 2023 featuring Halle Bailey, and in 2022, the Black Panther II…

I took my fascination with drawing hands one dimension further and created a sculpture of two hands in alabaster stone. Before I decided on a subject for the sculpture, I had a photo of my two hands that I used for a digital drawing hanging on my refrigerator, mostly because I get a good feeling…

I went to the park last weekend with a buddy, our sketchbooks, and some pencils. The outing ended up as a duck drawing study. As a kid I spent a lot of time drawing pets – a bunny my grandmother gave me, and a dog when I was a little older. Now that I don’t…

This is a post-it note. This little doodle I made with a black ink pen and a pink highlighter. The interesting thing about this drawing is that I made it when I was bored and wasn’t really thinking about it. It took less than a minute for me to do, but I get some really…

Since the last post about art block, I tried to create boredom in my schedule. And it worked! I ended up going to a life drawing group with a friend, and I realized I want to go beyond the line work that I’ve grown so accustomed to with drawing. I bought a bunch of tiny…