Banana Pan Art Academy

Digital Painting: Sketch to Final for TCGs
A live course with Luis F. Castro

Over 6 weeks, you’ll work through rendering, value, color, and composition—while building a finished illustration from start to polish.
This isn’t a recorded series. It’s hands-on, with real feedback and small-group structure.

– Starts April 29
– 6 sessions · 2.5 hours each
– $350 USD
– Private Discord
– Only 6 spots

Sign up at thebananapan.com/digital-painting-for-tcgs
(Link in bio)

San José, de noche las lucecitas son lindas.
Had no energy for drawing club today so I stayed in.
Took that photo like 8 years ago if not more.

Embrace

collab with tonight,
Wanna do collabs more often

Gestalt Psychology

Gestalt psychology is a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole. Gestalt psychology suggests that humans don't focus on separate components but instead tend to perceive objects as elements of more complex systems.

Growth &. Deficiency Motivation

Maslow separated his hierarchy into two different overarching types of needs: growth needs and deficiency needs.

The main difference between growth and deficiency needs is the change in motivation as needs are met. Motivation increases are growth needs are met. Conversely, motivation decreases as deficiency needs are met.

As mentioned previously, self-actualization is the pursuit of personal growth, thus making it a growth need. Growth needs originate from a desire to become better and grow as a person. As a person fulfills growth needs, their motivation increases as their desire to become even better increases.

Psychoanalysis

Freud believed that the unconscious conflicts in your mind caused anxiety, moodiness, depressive thoughts, troubling personality traits, and difficulties maintaining relationships. He believed these problems were rooted in past experiences and relationships.

Conditioning

Classical conditioning is a basic behavioral mechanism, together with operant conditioning, classical conditioning became the foundation of behaviorism, a school of psychology which was dominant in the mid-20th century and is still an important influence on the practice of psychological therapy and the study of animal behavior.

Apperception

Alfred Adler used the notion of apperception to explain certain principles of perception in child psychology. A child perceives different situations not as they actually exist, but by means of the biases prism of their personal interests, in other words, according to their personal apperception scheme

A rich child and a poor child walking together come across the same ten dollar bill on the sidewalk. The rich child says it is not very much money and the poor child says it is a lot of money. The difference lies in how they apperceive the same event – the lens of past experience through which they see and value (or devalue) the money.