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Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

If you are near San Luis Obispo County, CA…
Sun, Nov 16, 2025 - I'll be teaching an in-person drawing workshop on Studying Figure Construction of the Old Masters. 12:30pm-3:30pm Art Center Morro Bay
www.artcentermorrobay.org/workshops

November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🖊️🗯️ Study: Wally Wood's 22 PANELS!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=guU6...

I've been reading the collected edition of CANNON by Wallace Wood. It's fantastic and it reminded me of his famed comic creator cheat sheet "22 Panels that Always Work." His masterful use of all these story techniques and more…

November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🗯️📲 Adapting Print Comic to MOBILE!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqq0...

• In preparation for my next comic book, I'm converting my previous project MORNINGSTAR into a mobile-friendly format.

#comics #webcomics #motioncomics #comicbookdesign #adobeillustrator #artprocess #morningstar #page_design

November 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🙃 Try Upside-Down DRAWING Now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoZG...

• Drawing upside-down is a Super-Hack to improve your proportions. It's also playing on HARD mode

#figuredrawing #digitalart #traditionalart #comics #characterdesign #neverstoplearning #artimprovement #artfundamentals #proportions

October 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

📝 Comic Book Page Design by WRITING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=415J...

👀 Watch as I describe how my COMIC BOOK page designs are informed by my writing process.

#comicbooks #storytelling #thumbnails #writing #pagedesign #detailedart #storypacing

October 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

✏️ Thumbnails Are Essential To STORYTELLING!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVIy...

Starting to thumbnail out the first page of my new comic. Thumbnailing is the most essential part of the process for me. It's where all of the thinking and storytelling happens.

#comicbooks #storytelling #thumbnails

September 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

✏️😵‍💫 Redraw, Redraw, REDRAW!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbt...

I didn't do a SINGLE decent drawing this session. But I always have so much to learn and those who don't learn from a bad drawing are doomed to repeat it.

#figuredrawing #artfundamentals #badart

September 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🦫 Turn Animals into UNIQUE Characters!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFCM...

A great question from the Chat: How to create Unique Characters?

I stole this trick from animation… using animals as reference for human characters.

#characterdesign #animals

September 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🎨✨Simplify Faces with Basic SHAPES!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUiy...

Studying animation years ago is coming in handy, as I'm realizing some of the fundamental character design mistakes I've been making.

#HowToDrawFaces #CharacterDesign #ArtFundamentals #DrawingTutorial #SimplifyDrawing

September 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🤦‍♂️ Value Study FAIL!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_QP...

My goal was to draw some value studies based on a video by concept artist/educator Hardy Fowler.

His video was great. My attempt to utilize the technique he taught… not so much.

#valuestudy #composition #illustration #harveydunn #hardyfowler

August 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

I just backed We Will Survive: FairSquare Graphics 2025 rebirth! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fai...

We Will Survive: FairSquare Graphics 2025 rebirth!

After being abused by our distributor, we have to reprint ALL our titles to carry on. Will you help us doing so?

www.kickstarter.com

August 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

👧🏾 Face Doesn't Quite Fit the CHARACTER!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzuY...

I'm ALMOST happy with this cover. Unfortunately, I haven't nailed down the face of my MAIN CHARACTER!

#coverart #Characterdesign #MovieMarketing #WonderWoman

August 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🤑🎨 Balancing Personal Art vs PAID Gigs!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVox...

Digitally inking a comic cover while discussing how to balance Personal Art vs PAID Gigs.
#comicbookprocess #personalart #artgigs #coverart #clipstudiopaint #procreate #personalhealth

August 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

Kill Fees + Artist Contracts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0sN...

I redraw some studies from my local figure drawing workshop and we discuss kill fees and artist contracts.

#figuredrawing #killfees #artistcontracts

August 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🫟 Wanna Know the Secret to DIGITAL Inking?!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wewk...

Just Draw! As you get more comfortable with digital tools, the art will look less stiff and more like "YOUR" art, whatever your natural style is.
#DigitalInking #arttalk #creativeprocess

July 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

✏️ Starting Rough With a COMIC Cover!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJ8...

Sketching a comic cover, Talking Transformers movies, Mac vs PC (it's not really a battle), Campy Batman vs Dark Knight, and the Legend of Jim Lujan.

#Transformers #MacVsPc #Batman #JimLujan #coverart

July 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

➡️👹 Reference + Creature Design = WOW!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTqR...

#creaturedesign #comicbookcovers #colorthumbnails #moodboards #imagereference

June 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

💀✏️ Exquisite Corpse Jam DRAWING vol. 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiyW...

This Jam Drawing was so fun that we will definitely be doing it again. Thank you to everyone in our community who participated! (Von, Hossein, & James)

#JamDrawing #ExquisiteCorpse #ArtCommunity #DrawingGames #CreatureDesign

June 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🌟Create Art Amidst Life's CHAOS!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Hh...

We cover too many topics to list here, but the recurring theme is creative resilience and persistence in the face of life's challenges. I also redraw some bad figure drawings.

#figuredrawing #productivity #artcommunity

June 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🗯️🖊️ Getting back to making COMICS!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0UW...

I've been away from making comics for way too long. Time to push forward. Working on cover thumbnails for my next tale, an Ancient Greek Mythology Adventure.

#comicbooks #coverart #greekmythology

June 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🎉 ✍️ Digital Drawing JAM Session!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q70N...

For the first time ever (But not the last) we have a Digital Drawing Jam Session.

#artjam #groupdrawing #grouplearning #fanart #magmaapp #digitaldrawing #shapelanguage #headconstruction

May 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

🎨❤️ Lots of passion not enough SKILL?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=scvV...

What happens when you have more artistic passion than you do skill, craft, or experience? We talk about it while I analyze some of my figure drawing work.

#figuredrawing #creativepassion #artskills #drawingfundamentals

🎨❤️ Lots of passion not enough SKILL?

YouTube video by Gerimi

www.youtube.com

May 19, 2025 at 5:20 AM

Gerimi Burleigh

@gerimi.bsky.social

✏️🤬 Drawing bad ART doesn't make you a bad PERSON!
youtube.com/live/pj6e6yP...

While I analyze and redraw some of my work from this week's figure drawing session, we discuss the value of critiques, art influences, how to spur artistic growth.

#figuredrawing #artcritique #artisticgrowth #selfworth