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Magma’s Blog

Hey knowledge hunter! Discover the latest content from Magma’s creative community, learn about the digital art industry, and make the most of your drawing experience.

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Ryan Allan

Jan 15, 2025

Releases

Introducing the Magma Blend Tool!

Check out the latest addition to the Magma toolset, and the moset requested feature from our community: the blend tool.

Ryan Allan

January 7, 2025

Tips&Tricks

Huion Kamvas 16 Gen 3 Review

We're testing Huion's Kamvas 16 Gen 3 display tablet, the latest of the Gen 3 tablets with their pro-level PenTech4.0 inside.

Ryan Allan

Nov 25, 2024

Releases

Magma November 2024 Release

Check out our latest exciting release which features the much-requested Public Profiles!

Ryan Allan

November 21, 2024

Tips&Tricks

Huion Kamvas Pro 19 - Review and setup for Magma

We're testing Huion's Kamvas Pro 19 display tablet, sharing what we like about it, and how to set yours up for drawing and painting in Magma.

Anya Kondratyeva

November 15, 2024

Tips&Tricks

Art Tutorial: How to draw a dragon

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to color and shade a magnificent Magma dragon. Along the way, you'll learn how to use the smart paint bucket tool, clipping masks, layer blend modes, and more!

Anya Kondratyeva

Nov 13, 2024

Tips&Tricks

Art Tutorial: How to draw an anime face

If you want to draw anime characters but aren't sure where to start, this guide is for you! In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to draw the most important part of a character: the face. Keep reading to learn how to create perfect facial proportions from any angle.

Anya Kondratyeva

Oct 11, 2024

Releases

Magma October 2024 Release

We’re back with our latest release, helping you make more Magma connections and stay in touch with your drawing pals!

Anya Kondratyeva

Oct 12, 2024

Magma vs Photoshop: What Artists Should Know

Will you prefer Photoshop’s powerful photo editing tools or Magma’s uniquely collaborative drawing experience? In this article, we’ll explore the key differences between these two platforms, helping you choose the right tool for your next project.

Anya Kondratyeva

Sep 16, 2024

Community

Interview with Pokemagma

Read our conversation with Pokemagma, a group of artists focused on drawing Pokemon-inspired scenes in Magma. This long-running event features beautiful backgrounds, inventive collaborations, and heartwarming community spirit. We hope their sweet success story inspires you to start your own collaborative drawing session!

Magma

Sep 13, 2024

Releases

New Rules for Featuring Art Jams: What to Know

We’ve updated our Art Jams Terms of Use to allow us to more easily promote outstanding Art Jams. Learn more about this change and what it means for Art Jam joiners!

Anya Kondratyeva

Sep 13, 2024

Releases

Magma September 2024 Release

This release introduces Korean translations, offers some important Art Jam updates, and makes Magma faster and more reliable.

Anya Kondratyeva

Sep 11, 2024

Tips&Tricks

Making Pixel Art on Magma

Whether you're perfecting your pixel prowess or trying this technique for the first time, this guide will show you the tools you need to make pixel art in Magma.

Anya Kondratyeva

Aug 30, 2024

Community

Interview with Sad Banana: Rediscovering Joy in Art

Sad Banana, one of our most dedicated artists, shares how Magma's community helped her fall back in love with art.

Magma

August 16, 2024

Releases

Magma August 2024 Release

This release brings UI improvements for Brushes and Layers, improves Reference Window functionality, and includes important security updates and other fixes

Anya Kondratyeva

Aug 12, 2024

Tips&Tricks

Tips for Sketching Online

No matter where you’re at in your artistic journey, sketching can help you think more creatively, record new ideas, and learn from other artists. Here are our top tips for a successful sketching session!

Ryan Allan

July 12, 2024

Releases

Magma July 2024 Release

This release offers some improvements to the Art Jams experience, plus a couple of helpful bug fixes!

Anya Kondratyeva

Jul 10, 2024

Releases

Introducing Referrals

We’re launching a rewards program for inviting friends to Magma! When you refer another artist, you’ll both get to save an extra brush preset.

Anya Kondratyeva

June 18, 2024

Community

Interview With Art Pizza Podcast: Building Community in Magma

Read our conversation with the team behind Art Pizza Podcast, an artist collective that hosts delightful drawing events in Magma.

Anya Kondratyeva

June 20, 2024

Releases

Magma June 2024 Release

This release introduces Art Jams, gives video call and screensharing features to Blaze users, and offers the option to use Magma in Japanese!

Anya Kondratyeva

June 20, 2024

Community

Releases

Art Jams & Sharing a Canvas: Best Practices

To see rules and best practices, check out our blog post about how to collaborate with others on a canvas.

Ryan Allan

May 10, 2024

Releases

Magma May 2024 Release

Our latest update introduces a new brush engine, the ability to save brush presets, and extra customization options for perspective grids

Magma

Apr 5th, 2024

Releases

Magma April 2024 Release

This release features the Perspective Grid (Beta) for creating collaborative perspective grids and new layer visibility settings for personalized drawing experiences. Stay tuned for further enhancements including upcoming major brush engine update and consider joining as a beta tester to shape the future of digital art tools.

Magma

Mar 15th, 2024

MagmaTalks

Tips&Tricks

An Art Director’s Pro Tips for Effective Game Design

We’ve interviewed Dan Norton, former Art Director and Head of Story Development Art for Riot Games, about his experience in game design and how he used Magma for his workflow. Here are Dan’s expert tips for making your game design process more effective.

Magma

Mar 15th, 2024

MagmaTalks

An interview with Dan Norton, former Art Director at Riot Games

We interviewed Dan Norton, former Art Director and Head of Story Development Art for Riot Games, about his experience in game design and using Magma for his workflow. Dan offered some great insights about how studios can use Magma and shared his thoughts on the future of the industry.

Magma

Apr 11th, 2024

Partnerships

Announcing Magma’s Partnership with Story Protocol: Protect & Monetize Your Art

We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Story Protocol, the Programmable Intellectual Property (IP) Layer. We’re empowering Magma’s community of 2 million+ artists to protect, monetize, and grow their IP on their terms.

Ryan Allan

Aug 15th, 2023

Tips&Tricks

Community

Better drawing on small screens in Magma

If you're using Magma on a small screen, you might loose some precious drawing area to different UI elements. Thankfully, there are some ways you can reduce this and make the drawing experience far more comfortable.

Ryan Allan

Mar 6th, 2024

Releases

Magma March 2024 Release

This release introduces canvas resizing options and a convenient shortcut (Ctrl+R) for the Reference Window. Additionally, we provide a sneak peek at an upcoming advanced brush engine and inviting community members to participate as beta testers or Ambassadors

Ryan Allan

Feb 8th, 2024

Releases

Magma February 2024 Release

Latest update introduces canvas crop tool, motion blur filter, floating reference window, self-served Fusion pricing, and performance enhancements for an upgraded Magma experience.

Ryan Allan

Jan 18th, 2024

Releases

Magma December 2023 & January 2024 Release

Latest update with a new grid view, layer trim, user search, Blaze autobuy function and improved performance to elevate your Magma experience

Ryan Allan

May 19th, 2023

Community

ArtEvents

A Magma Classroom Recap - 15 and 18 May 2023

This is a brief recap of our weekly Magma Classroom LIVE streams, showing what was covered and what our artists produced in the time.

Ryan Allan

May 15th, 2023

Community

ArtEvents

A Magma Classroom Recap - 27 April and 11 May

Here's a quick summary of what you missed during the Magma Classroom Live session this week. The Magma Classroom is our weekly live stream aimed at beginner digital artists wanting to sharpen their painting skills.

Ryan Allan

May 5th, 2023

ConceptArt

Tips&Tricks

Get your start in digital painting with the Magma Classroom live stream series

It can be overwhelming when you get started in digital painting and see just how much you need to learn to make great images, and that’s why we started the Magma Classroom sessions.

Jun 9th, 2023

Community

Whats New in Magma, June 2023

This recent update is packed with a combination of creative tools and big improvements to the Magma experience.

Ryan Allan

Jul 24th, 2023

Tips&Tricks

Partnerships

How to set up your Wacom tablet for drawing in Magma

Wacom offers a lot of room to customize your tablet to suit your specific workflow. In this guide, we'll look at some of the ways you can set up your tablet for drawing and painting online in Magma.

Ryan Allan

Aug 15th, 2023

Tips&Tricks

Community

How to use Magma on your smartphone

Even though Magma wasn't designed with small phone screens in mind, there are a few different things you can do to become a mobile drawing champion.

Ryan Allan

Nov 3rd, 2023

Releases

Magma November 2023 Release

Latest update with a new dark mode, free textured brushes for all users, and simplified pricing plans to enhance your collaborative art journey.

Magma

Oct 12th, 2023

Releases

Magma October 2023 Release

We’re excited to announce some new updates that we’ve been working on behind the scenes to improve your Magma experience: Version History, Text Tool, Community Hub & more

Jul 24th, 2023

Learn how Sunna Entertainment Utilized Magma to Create their new multi-platform hit, "Planet Cube: Edge."

Magma has made our concepting process much faster. Creative tasks that took two days before Magma, we now do in one. And now we have far fewer internal meetings.

Magma

Jun 14th, 2023

Community

Unleashing the Power of Digital Collaboration: Magma and Wacom Are Transforming the Artistic Landscape

Magma and Wacom provide a powerful platform for creative exploration and collaboration. Artists can start a sketch in Magma with their Wacom drawing tablet or display, share it via Magma, and invite others to contribute or critique, creating an evolving piece of art that is a true testament to collaborative creativity.

Magma

Jul 17th, 2023

Tips&Tricks

Community

Magma Classroom LIVE recap - Helmet studies - 26 & 29 June 2023

Another week and another subject to study as we sharpen our digital painting skills in the Magma Classroom. After covering the fundamentals in earlier classes, we now take a look at painting shiny helmets.

Ryan Allan

Jun 26th, 2023

Community

Magma Classroom LIVE recap - Kintsugi - 19 & 22 June 2023

Another week and another subject to study as we sharpen our digital painting skills in the Magma Classroom. We’ve already covered the fundamentals of painting in our first set of live streams, and in this one we're doing a study of some kintsugi objects

Ryan Allan

Jun 12th, 2023

Collaboration

Community

Painting stone skulls - Magma Classroom LIVE recap

Here is a quick recap of our recent Magma Classroom LIVE sessions where we make learning art multiplayer. These weekly sessions are aimed at helping beginner digital artists with their painting skills, while giving more experienced ones the opportunity to try painting something different.

Ryan Allan

Jun 26th, 2023

Tips&Tricks

Community

Magma Classroom LIVE recap - Mushrooms - 12 & 15 June 2023

Ryan Allan

Jun 12th, 2023

Tips&Tricks

Community

Magma Classroom LIVE Recap - Painting Foil Balloons

Welcome to the Magma Classroom LIVE where we paint online together to grow our digital art skills. In this week's one-hour study sessions, we looked at painting foil balloons.

Ryan Allan

Jul 17th, 2023

Tips&Tricks

Community

Magma Classroom LIVE recap - Value Study - 3 & 6 July 2023

Another week in the Magma Classroom as we sharpen those digital painting skills with various subjects. This week, we're revisiting one of the core elements of painting: Values.

Ryan Allan

May 31st, 2023

Collaboration

Community

Join our weekly community drawing hangout: the Magma Clubhouse

Want to draw online with new friends? Then join our weekly community hangout: the Magma Clubhouse. Each week we pick a new theme the canvas, invite our users to help us fill it, and live stream the whole thing.

Magma

May 3rd, 2023

Community

May the 4th be with You. Join us for 2 Star Wars Themed Events!

Join us in 2 Star Wars themed livestreams! We will be working together in a shared canvas in both events, while drawing JEDI & SITH artwork. All skill levels are welcome.

Ryan Allan

May 31st, 2023

Tips&Tricks

Community

Magma Classroom Recap - Clouds - 22 & 25 May

A quick summery of our last set of Magma Classroom live streams where we chose clouds as the subject of our study. It was a challenge to paint them well within the time, but our artists produced great results.

Magma

May 2nd, 2023

Collaboration

Revitalize Your Creative Workflow This Spring with Magma: The Ultimate Tool for Streamlined Collaboration

Spring, the season of rejuvenation and new beginnings, presents an excellent opportunity for creative studios to revamp their workflows. It's time to declutter your creative process with Magma!

Magma

Feb 10th, 2023

ConceptArt

ArtEvents

Learn and level up in the Magma Classroom Live

We're launching the Magma Classroom live streams dedicated to creative education! These streams will be conducted by industry professionals & talented folks inside and outside of the Magma team who want to share their knowledge, at no cost to you.

Magma

May 7th, 2023

Community

Book Illustration Art Challenge | Art Cadets, Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots, Hosted by Upschool

In Partnership with the Jane Goodall Roots & Shoots Book Challenge hosted by Upschool, signup now to participate in their art challenge with Magma to bring awareness to global issues

Magma

Sep 15th, 2022

Collaboration

Animation

Magma talks Webcomics – Laurel Pursuit, Brandon Chen, Dylan Telano (CEO of Voyce.me)

Do you wonder what the impact of Magma in the Webcomics industry is? Find out by watching our first interview with the incredibly creative people who are the founders of Laurel Pursuit Studios.

Sep 6th, 2022

Animation

ConceptArt

Magma Talks with illustrator Shauna Lynn

Inspiring interview with Shauna Lynn. Learn what a typical workday for a book illustrator looks like, how to deal with deadline pressure, where to look for inspiration and how to develop your own unique artist style to increase your chances of working in the digital art industry.

Ryan Allan

Sep 9th, 2022

Collaboration

Tips&Tricks

Practical tips to grow your social media following with digital art

With so much content out there it can be difficult to get noticed. We have some practical tips to grow your social media following with digital art.

Ryan Allan

Oct 25th, 2022

Collaboration

Tips and tricks to level up your Magma game

We have some little tricks and useful features to step up your experience of drawing and painting in Magma.

Magma

Sep 15th, 2022

Collaboration

Tips&Tricks

The Importance of Learning How to Draw Textures

Learning how to draw from a mentor, art supervisor, or colleague is an excellent way to master your craft. Once you know the basics, it can be difficult to level up without feedback from someone experienced in the field. Find great example of periodic workshops conducted at Magma.

Magma

Sep 15th, 2022

Collaboration

GameDev

Inventing and rendering environments

The environment design process is entirely different from drawing portraits, designing vehicles, weapons, working on characters, or designing costumes. This significant element of art constitutes an integral part of any video game or animation project. Find example of an environmental art collaboration created jointly in Magma.

Ryan Allan

Sep 13th, 2022

Collaboration

Tips&Tricks

Building a daily drawing habit

Setting out to draw every day can be an exciting New Year resolution, but it can be hard to stick with. Where do you find the time? What do you draw? What if you miss a day? What if I fail? These are questions you might face regularly on your journey. This post has some answers and tips to help you succeed if you are wondering how to build a daily drawing habit to level up your skills.

Apr 25th, 2022

Collaboration

ConceptArt

The Superhero Project

Have you ever wondered if your art can have a huge impact on someone’s life? Well, it CAN! We invite YOU to join our campaign and draw a superhero character for a deserving child. Learn more about The Superhero Project

Ryan Allan

Oct 25th, 2022

MagmaTalks

Community

New to Magma? Some tips and questions answered

Answering some of the frequent questions from beginners about how to use Magma, and some tools to make things easier.

Oct 14th, 2022

Community

Contests

Contest: Magma's Hero adventures

We're giving away 3 x the One by Wacom —a pen tablet that lets you draw, paint, and sketch with precision—to three lucky artists who can tell us the best story about our Magma's Hero adventures.

Magma

Sep 15th, 2022

Collaboration

ConceptArt

Are you interested in learning how to draw comic books with your remote team? Watch this talk by Pitch Dev Studios, which presents the use of predefined shapes – a co-developed feature in Magma.

Ryan Allan

Sep 14th, 2022

Collaboration

Tips&Tricks

10 creative things to do with artists in Magma

Do more than just draw with friends in Magma. Here are ten creative things you can do with fellow artists to engage your audiences and start your next awesome project.

Magma

Sep 15th, 2022

Collaboration

GameDev

How to build engagement with game designers community

Check out this great creative idea to make the fans of the games created by the studio feel valued and to influence and inspire the artists whose projects they appreciate.

Magma

Sep 15th, 2022

Animation

ConceptArt

Finch – robot Jeff creation process - case study 🤖

If you're interested in the making of the film Finch, want to learn which everyday life objects influenced the appearance of the robot Jeff, or hear some other interesting insights from the movie pre-production phase, be sure to check out an interview conducted by Solomon Blair and managed by Yariv Newman.

Jun 22nd, 2022

Collaboration

GameDev

Advisor Announcement - Michel Besner

Magma is honored to announce longtime creative leader Michel Besner is joining our Advisory Board, bringing more than 20 years of experience in the development and marketing of innovative solutions in various fields such as digital twins, business intelligence, social media & news analytics, 2D & 3D animation for television, visual effects and video games.

Magma

May 14th, 2022

We stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

Magma has taken measures tu support Ukraine both as a team and as individuals, and we would like to suggest some ways that you can help, too

Magma

May 5th, 2023

Collaboration

Community

Magma AI Closed Beta Team | Join the team and try the NEW Features!

Join the Magma AI Closed Beta Team and be among the first to experience our cutting-edge features!

Magma

Apr 11th, 2023

Collaboration

Community

Magma AI | Closed Beta Program - Join Now

Magma announces a closed beta program to try our latest AI features, which are designed to seamlessly integrate into a creative workflow and be used alongside other tools directly within the canvas. This beta program will host VIP professional designers, and invites the first 100 people to signup and gain access to test these features and share feedback. This program will run for approximately 30 days.

Magma

Sep 7th, 2021

Collaboration

GameDev

Collaborative Drawing Contest

Grab your team of 3, and unleash imagination with the Magma Challenge. Show off your creativity and win 3 Wacom One Pen Displays for your crew + 1 year of Magma Pro

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마그마를 다른 사람들과 무료로 체험해보세요

다양한 디지털 아티스트들과 아트 커뮤니티, 게임 개발자, 컨셉 아티스트 혹은 다른 창의적 팀들을 위한 유일무이 아트 협업 플랫폼에 참여하세요.

시작하다

마그마를 다른 사람들과 무료로 체험해보세요

다양한 디지털 아티스트들과 아트 커뮤니티, 게임 개발자, 컨셉 아티스트 혹은 다른 창의적 팀들을 위한 유일무이 아트 협업 플랫폼에 참여하세요.

시작하다