Welcome to Gaia's #1
Traditional Art Atelier!


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Masters have spent around 10 000 hours on deliberate practice...

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According to Josh Kaufman, it takes 20 hours to become good at something...

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What are your artistic goals?

The Traditional Art Atelier guild was created with self-taught artists in mind. With a supportive & growth-oriented community and tons of free resources arranged in carefully engineered curriculum, you are sure to improve your artistic skills and grow as an artist no matter what level your skill is at right now.

While this guild focuses on traditional mediums, digital artists are welcome too.

What you will find when you become a member:

Art Challenges & Events
Some challenges are ongoing, some have a fixed time for completion. Some challenges have prizes, some challenges are aimed at creating new habits - like drawing daily and overcoming art block. You're welcome to start your own challenge for everyone to participate in as long as it benefits the participants' artistic growth. Cool new challenges will be announced via the guild announcements.

Classes, Tutorials & Assignments
This is where we go to upgrade our skills. Test your skill and start "levelling up" on your artistic journey with in-depth tutorials arranged in an atelier-style curriculum. The curriculum are aimed for mastery and developing our own unique styles and voices as artists. You can decide between still life, portraiture, figure drawing, landscape classes and many more.

Critique & Feedback
Personal work and practice sketches can be posted here for constructive critique and advice. The focus is on improving our art, not getting compliments or "art bashing" another. If you have the time, skill and tools to do paint- or draw-overs for fellow artists and hobbyists, please do!

Your Art Diary & Personal Projects
This is where you can keep track of your artistic experiments, personal projects, thoughts and feelings. You can invite feedback and comments, or not. You can create a simple art dump. Whatever you like as long as it follows the simple guild rules.

Career Chat
With internet and remote job opportunities, freelancing, Patreon, RLC commissions, drop-shipping art print services, YouTube and Instagram, etc, making money on the side or becoming a full-time artist can become our reality. In this subforum, we talk about everything art career related. Create threads freely.

Mindset & Motivation
Being an artist means having the tenacity to get back up and try again and again even after failing myriad times. Mastery and success, in any skill and area of life, boils down to our mindset. This is also where we discuss our goals and figure out solutions to art block, self-doubt, fears, etc.


Mastery is a skill. Talent can be learned.


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