Here is the original set of answers to my questions from Steve. The article and video about him, with lots of images from his legendary career, can be found here. HUMAN FORM, REFERENCE AND IMAGINATION The only way I know to get good at anything is by persistent, goal-oriented practice. And since we’re artists, this […]
We are going to draw small, smaller and then tiny figures, which is a good exercise since to draw that small you have to simplify the figure which is an essential skill to develop. We decided to do this exercise because a number of people commented that they’d like to know how to draw faces […]
So you’re struggling to put in the hours each week training your drawing – this is a very common problem I have been having too. This is an approach that has worked for me to find extra dollops of practice time everyday. Check out the video, or we’ve written it out below. Don’t forget to […]
Sometimes you’ll do a drawing and feel like you somehow got worse at drawing overnight. You might be having one of those bad drawing days – like the one I have had today, which is just really annoying and makes me want to throw everything in the bin and give up. A bad drawing might even […]
The Skip Gallery shows artwork in a skip. They have displayed work by David Shrigley as well as Skip Gallery founders Catherine Borowski and Lee Baker, literally inside the same type of skip that you would see parked in a road outside a building site. Why a skip? Catherine Borowski conceived of the idea […]
This book has been through nine editions over many decades in its native Germany, and has now finally been translated into English. The book aims to cover everything a figure drawing artist would need to know to understand anatomy, and to guide teachers to properly give anatomical instruction to their students. We’re reviewing this book […]
Beautiful life drawing using warm pastel tones of woman lying down This is an important question for prospective students and maybe even those that haven’t been motivated to go to class for a while. I thought about it and discussed it with other artists, and everything seemed to boil down to two main reasons. Reason […]
Consider these two paper selection situations: Situation 1: you see, through a window, a lovely bird on the branch of a tree in the garden. You grab a discarded junk mail envelope and a ballpoint pen from the table and quickly sketch the scene. This emergency drawing on an envelope becomes one of most memorable […]
Although drawing and painting are generally treated as separate activities and distinct skillsets, I personally think they are simply variations of the same thing. You can bring in some paints and brushes to a life drawing class, if the venue has a sink, and do life drawing as usual using paint. A more important distinction […]
We stare at their naked bodies for hours, trying to figure out the lines and tone that define their body. The poses they choose define our drawings. We keep drawings of them in our sketchbooks and portfolios. And yet, most of us don’t know much about the models we have this unique form of intimacy […]