Angelic Shades Studio: The Art of Angela Sasser

After spending Thanksgiving with family, I settled in to write a post that would be both enlightening and interesting, but thanks to the turkey-induced half coma, I figured I would just list a few things I'm thankful for, as an artist.I am thankful for...Photoshop...

With all the temptation to join in the current MMORPG's and my recent acquisition of Dragon Age: Origins, I've been pondering much about something I always find myself doing...

To point out a strange fact, I have always been a sort of 'one shot' scene artist. In the past, I was prone to drawing character portraits or specific scenes with no sequence, all art that could be digested at once with little baring on the other images I might draw of the same characters...

A fresh can of Dr. Pepper (or two), comfortable pants, a late night muffin, and a bottle of painkiller for the eyestrain -- this was at one time my regimen for playing MMORPGS (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games) back in college...

So it's finally happened! I got off my duff and updated my Etsy shop with lots of goodies. It will be the new permanent home for buying my original work, since it gets a good bit more traffic than my lonely homepage...

Well, Halloween is done and now begins the slow shifting of things to harvest and frost decorations for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm still stubbornly clinging to my jack-o-lantern, who is growing long for the garbage bin...

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." - Edgar Allan Poe, The RavenI have once seen a vision of a woman stripped of her hopes and dreams, left with nothing but the purist of suffering and endless...

"Terrible Dawn"5x7 Inches, Watercolor & Color Pencil on Illustration BoardA brilliant blade flashes in the deepest dark...

Continuing my pattern of more art sharing, here's the progress on the sketch I showed you last entry. Ms...

Thought you guys might enjoy a sneak peek into things I'm working on plus art!This week, the topic of my project is the halo. Halo comes from the Latin halōs or nimbus, meaning cloud, round, circle, sun, and moon. While the Greek origination meant threshing floor....

There is a saying that every journey begins with a single step. Sometimes we fall, trip, or get distracted from the path by shiny objects. Eventually we reach a point where we can stop and realize there is more of the road behind us than there is ahead. You're almost there...

I remember a time in college when I found myself so incredibly frustrated by my homework and completely lost as to what to do with myself. I wanted to draw angels and elves, not splatter paint on a canvas and call it art...