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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Free Drawing Demo - Head & Hand Construction Sun Oct 25th 1:00pm - 3:00pm Art Center Morro Bay www.artcentermorrobay.org

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Drawing with an eraser: using light as your brush

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🌜 Late night art supply organizing. I have so many erasers that they’re finally getting their own bin! ✏️

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

💬✏️ Should I Letter My Comics BEFORE I Pencil?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcK0... Short answer, Yes. Helps with solving character placement and storytelling issues early on. #lettering #wordballons #characterplacement

A rough sketch of a comic book page in the process of being lettered

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🖼️✏️ Use Drawing Reference for #%*!$ SAKE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsbz... Looking at some visual reference/inspiration for comic book environment design #comicbook #environmentdesign #sketching #artreference

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🚀🗯️ How Do You Relaunch an INDIE Comic?! w/ Jesse Toves www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXQ... Emmy Award-Nominated and VES Award-winning Visual FX Artist Jesse Toves joins us for a wide ranging conversation about his Sci-Fi Samurai Epic ENCODING BUSHIDO. #vfx #indiecomics #scifi #samurai

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

💬 🧠 Are Comics A Breeding Ground For OVERTHINKING? www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWxl... Joined by my good friend Karl Altstaetter for a deep conversation about Making Comics, Creativity, AI, and Overthinking. Find his artwork at www.instagram.com/komickarl #creativity #overthinking #ai #makingcomics

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

😵‍💫👤 Character Design and Coping With ANXIETY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yax7... Working on character designs for my new comic and discussing ANXIETY with the chat. #Characterdesign #Anxiety

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🗯️🖊️ Starting a New COMIC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUKF... Starting a new comic? Where to begin? #drawingcomics #creativeprocess #thumbnails

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

✏️ Redraw to Improve NOW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE5k... I'm still not happy with any of the drawings from this session. Analyzing and redrawing some charcoal sketches from figure drawing class to learn and improve #charcoaldrawing #figuresketches #portraitsketch #selfimprovement

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Wondercon 2026. Artist Alley D-23 Come check out some comics, prints, and sketch cards

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🖊️ Digital Inking in PROCREATE www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0WP... Going from rough pencils to Digital inks on my new comic. #digitalinking #procreate

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Fixing Bad Figure Drawing 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i8X... Going over drawings from my weekly life drawing session… seeing what I still need to learn. Adjusting basic volumes, anatomy, lighting, and gestures. #selfcriticism #figuredrawing

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Forging your own Creative Destiny with CARLOS MENDOZA III www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEzP... Design Director & Amazing Illustrator Carlos Mendoza III joins us for a conversation about navigating the path between commerce and creativity. www.instagram.com/carlos3art #artbusiness #toydesigner

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

👉✏️🗯️ How Do Thumbnails become COMIC book Pages? www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG1K... We begin the journey of shaping these small rough sketches into a comic book page. And we're joined by community member KingzloFitness. #thumbnails #comicbooks #sketching #layout

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

💬😬 Comic Book Lettering: AFFINITY vs Illustrator? www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVsc... A quick comparison: lettering the first page of my new comic in both Affinity and Adobe Illustrator. Which one works best? #lettering #comicbooks #affinity #illustrator

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🔎✏️ How do you find the RIGHT drawing Pose?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TD5... Working on thumbnails for a comic book page and demonstration how I choose poses: Story, character, communication. #Thumbnails #story #poses #drawing #character

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

📲 Creating Indie Webcomics with BILLY SLAUGHTER! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlEp... Let's spend some drawing time with indie webcomic creator BILLY SLAUGHTER. You can find his comic GANJA VERSE on Tumblr: housefivestudios.tumblr.com #webcomics #indiecomics #creativeprocess #drawingtime

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

👊 ⚡️ Drawing Jack Kirby Pages as STICK FIGURES! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Q2... We dig deeper into Jack Kirby's dynamic comic composition thru stick figure sketches. #jackkirby #comicpages #stickfigures #composition #masterstudy

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🦖👽 DvsM: 2001 The SOLDIER w/ Gary Hodges! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt83... Our Guest is Gary Hodges, creator of the fantastic Sci-Fi Conspiracy Thriller Comic, Dinosaurs Vs Marsbots (DVSM). We’re here to talk about the latest chapter - DVSM 2001: THE SOLDIER - www.etsy.com/shop/DINOSAU...

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

👊🗯️ Unlock Jack Kirby's Dynamic Storytelling! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSXF... One of the best ways to learn storytelling is to study the best… And KIRBY is the KING!!! #jackkirby #comicstorytelling #masterstudy

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

🍽️🍔 Eating Habits of the Modern COMIC Creator! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U22_... Intermittent Fasting, Vegetarianism, Cutting out Sugars… We spend this session talking about being healthier in 2026. #eatinghabits #sequentialstorytelling #IntermittentFasting #PanelComposition #vegetarinanism

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

😮‍💨 Need Breathing Room To CREATE?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t7o... We got deep on this one, BRO! It's hard to do anything creative when life is constantly coming at you. #creativecommunity #caregiverlife #artistmindset #creativeburnout #artsupport

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

⚡🚨 What Would You Create If You Had One YEAR to Live? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf3S... I'm more interested in the quality of time than what I leave behind. #creativity #artistlife #figuredrawing #comicbooks #creativeprocess #artphilosophy #mindfulart #whatif

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Perfectionism! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7eO... A bit of show-and-tell with the community sharing comics/animation projects we're working on. But there's something we all struggle to overcome… PERFECTIONISM! #perfectionism #comicbooks #storytelling

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🐶📚 The Dog Ate My HOMEWORK! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaWe... • Sharing Work in Progress • Indie-friendly printers and printing on newsprint. • Shot Selection • Mike Mignola • Story Reverse-Engineering • Goal-setting #goals #storytelling #MikeMignola #composition #comicbookprinting

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

😬🍗 Are You Biting Off More Than You Can CHEW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQsI... • Introverts, Extroverts, Ambiverts, and Omniverts • Dream Inspired Artworks • Inner Demons #creativeambition #toobigtofail #creativeprocess #innerdemons #artiststruggles #dreamart #introvertartist

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

🖊️🗯️ 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…

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🗯️📲 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🙃 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📝 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

✏️ 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

✏️😵‍💫 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🦫 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🎨✨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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🤦‍♂️ 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

👧🏾 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🤑🎨 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🫟 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

✏️ 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

➡️👹 Reference + Creature Design = WOW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTqR... #creaturedesign #comicbookcovers #colorthumbnails #moodboards #imagereference

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

💀✏️ 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🌟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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🗯️🖊️ 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🎉 ✍️ 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

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Gerimi Burleigh @gerimi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

🛌💭 Dreams and Art INFLUENCES www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXEQ... #artinfluence #animation #comicbooks #dreamart #strangedarling

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