Words of Wisdom:
1.) Make sure you love art. Otherwise it isnt worth it.
2.) Getting better with your art is exactly like working out. If you want to look good you have to exercise all the time. If you want to be a better artist you have to draw all the time!
3.) If you like looking and talking about art more than creating art then you should be a critic not an artist.
AKA:
If you like playing video games more than making them then you should be a game tester not a game designer/artist.
4.) If you ever consider yourself a master of your craft and you need not learn anything new then consider that day the day you have failed.
5.) The day you stop learning is the day you die.
6.) If you are an artist then you need to be a salesman too.
7.) Learn to give and receive constructive criticism.

Glenn Vilppu Words of Wisdom:

1.) What are your priorities?
2.) Painting and sculpture of daughters of drawing.
3.) An animator without drawing skills is like an actor without legs.
4.) Drawing is thinking.
5.) Recognize your own feelings.
6.) What is your purpose? What are you trying to capture?
7.) Compose a drawing to communicate something. What you communicate is your choice, but have it under control.
8.) Don’t copy the model!
9.) No rules…Just tools.
10.) The pose is the soul of a drawing.
11.) Plan, Knowledge, Guts
12.) In the end what counts is that you “kill” the other guy.
13.) Feel the movement by making the eye move from one line to the next.
14.) Focus on the gesture – First 30 seconds should have no contour and no anatomy.
15.) Placement of line determines visual communication
16.) Create contour by drawing forms/volumes
17.) Don’t explain, Don’t complain, Don’t be late.
18.) Ahead of schedule, under budget.
19.) You don’t need to draw what’s actually there.
20.) Use both the visual and anatomic line

Tutorials:

• Foeton Mutant Concept - Brief summary of one of my digital painting techniques
• Reset XForms - What is it? Why should I use it? How?