Randy Gallegos: Art of the Day

Randy Gallegos: Art of the Day

Scolding (2017)

Trying to find a balance with digital

Oct 22, 2025
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The story, “Arrow of Defiance,” published as a middle-grade reader, featured a number of illustrations rendered in black and white acrylic on canvas then colored digitally. One of the advantages of this method is that the rendering has more texture than digital, which can tend towards a more plastic, clearly synthetic finish.

study for, “Scolding” (2017), 11x7.25” pencil on paper

In this scene, our protagonist is a teen and is chided for her criticism of the tribe’s traditions of not allowing the women to hunt.

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