Lisa Hassell
Lisa is a published writer and arts journalist, focusing on creative business, graphic art and illustration and design education. She regular writes for Digital Arts and Creative Review among others, and has contributed cover stories to 'Becoming a successful graphic designer' (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Design(H)ers, (viction:ary, 2019).
Articles by Lisa Hassell
News: 15 iPad art tips
Tips for artists and designers who are new to the iPad from four leading professional illustrators who've moved from traditional media to…
Features: 27 travel illustration tips and techniques
6 leading illustrators discuss how they produce their best travel illustrations and illustrated maps for clients including Conde Nast…
Features: How to draw celebrities, actors and singers: 8 tips from leading illustrators
Leading illustrators reveal the techniques behind their favourite portraits of the famous - from composition, drawing and painting to how to…
Features: 34 tips for turning your art and graphics into amazing animated GIFs
6 illustrators reveal how to turn artworks into fun, charming, powerful or hilarious animated GIFs in Illustrator, Photoshop or After Effects.
Features: How to draw groups of people and crowds
Leading illustrators tell you their techniques for making crowds of people look interesting, eye-catching and easy to 'read'.
Features: 30 Poster Design Tips
Leading illustrators and designers give you useful advice on how to create beautiful posters for sale or clients – from composition to…
Features: 42 Tips for How to Make Digital Artworks That Look Hand-made
Illustrators from around the world who work digitally or with mixed media reveal to us how they create their best work - including where they…
Features: 38 tips for creating stunning black-&-white art
Super-useful advice and techniques from 10 illustrators for creating black-and-white artworks – using pens, paints or digital tools.
Features: 14 Character Art Tips
How the likes of Dan Woodger, Anima Boutique, Docvek, Jam Factory, Joanne Harker and Showchicken bring personality to portraits of people,…
Features: 32 Portrait Painting and Drawing Tips
Techniques for drawing and painting portraits – whether digital or with pens, pencils or paints – from leading illustrators and artists.
Features: How to draw animals: 55 brilliant tips
16 of our favourite illustrators discuss the techniques they use to create incredible animal artworks – whether digitally or using pens,…
Features: 28 creative lettering and type tips for artists
Leading illustrators including Inkymole, Supermundane, Melita Berg, Daisy Emerson and Alex Fowkes reveal their techniques for creating…
Features: 27 tips for drawing flowers and plants
Artists including Johanna Basford and Kristjana S Williams reveal techniques and approaches for producing beautiful, powerful drawings of the…
Features: 25 book design and illustration tips
Discover how leading book illustrators and designers produce their best covers and illustrations.
Features: 12 geometric vector art tips
Leading illustrators share their tips for perfecting artworks and patterns based on geometric shapes.
Features: How to draw food - 20 tips from leading illustrators
Top food illustrators reveal how they produce fresh and mouth-watering artworks.
Features: 20 tips for drawing hair, hands & bodies
Learn to draw better bodies, hair and hands from leading illustrators including Miss Led, Barbara Dziadosz and Michael Parkin.
Features: 17 tips to make artworks sexy – tastefully or cheekily
Leading illustrators reveal how to use sexuality in artworks in ways that are beautiful, fun, erotic, classy and provocative – but never vulgar.
Features: 20 Amazing Techniques For Using Colour in Your Art
Use colour better in your artworks with these illustration tips from the likes of Owen Davey, Maria Munn, Dave Bain, Ana Galvan and more.
Features: 10 brilliant character artists for 2016
Discover the illustrators and animators that have inspired Lisa Hassell most at this year's Pictoplasma character art and animation festival.