The SivART Gallery

10/15/2024

He needs a friend! Drop in the comments Who or What I should draw here! Pet, Imaginary Friend, etc.

02/20/2024

02/12/2024

I enjoy creating art that represents us! Did you know last year I had the opportunity to create designs for a company and the products featuring my designs are on store shelves right now! I can’t tell y’all who or what (for now) so for now check out these designs I mocked up! What else could you see this design on?✊🏽

02/12/2024

Scrolling on Facebook and seeing your own product being marketed from Walmart? 🤌🏽🤌🏽

02/05/2024

Guess who has a new class available on SkillShare? Me! Use the link below to get your first month free and learn the basics of Procreate in a fun lesson on drawing cartoon self portrait avatars!



https://www.skillshare.com/en/r/user/travisathompson?gr_tch_ref=on

02/04/2024

Hey! My name is Travis A. Thompson and . From the beginning I’ve been against the use of AI in illustration. For more reasons than I care to list right now. But Davide said it best:

“AI can be a useful tool, but a paintbrush without the hand and eye of an artist, is just a piece of wood.” -

02/01/2024

Black is Beautiful!

01/11/2024

How to Draw Digitally! Drawing digitally can be a bit overwhelming but these are the steps I consistently use when adding color to a drawing I’ve done. Each step is essential in helping to ensure you have an aesthetically pleasing finished product. Any Questions?

01/08/2024

As many of you have embarked on this journey of entrepreneurship I thought I’d continue to be transparent along the way. I saw several freelancers posting what they called the annual report of their income breakdown. And I decided I’d create my own.
I thought it was an interesting study of where all the money I made came from but it also gives me a chance to adjust my focus where needed. For example my Misc. section comes from revenue from YouTube and SkillShare. One my personal goals this year is to post more lessons to SkillShare as 2024 continues.
I figured this chart could also provide other creatives or people wanting to go into entrepreneurship with ideas on creating multiple streams of income.
Let me know any questions you may have. Feel free to DM them.

01/03/2024

Thank You God! Today marks one year since I left Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. I started teaching at Reid Park Academy in 2011 😮‍💨 then headed over to Devonshire 🫣 and finished at Newell 😏. I resigned in November 2022, taught kids for the last day on December 19th and walked back in from Winter break to turn my keys in on January 3rd (I made sure I chose my last day as that teacher workday after the winter break to get those last few dollars 😉).

Simply put, this last year has been AMAZING! I was able to complete my first full year as a full time Illustrator. I helped authors bring their dreams to fruition and even got to work on my own stuff.

The highlight was being INVITED to pitch my Christmas wrapping paper to Walmart and the pitch went pretty good. I won’t act like it was all good for the full 365 days though. Entrepreneurship is GHETTO! And many days had me shook. But I stayed the course and saw it through.

Bottom line is, I did it. And you can too! 🤗

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams and live the life you have imagined" - Henry David Thoreau