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black and white abstract

Day one hundred and eighty-eight: Anyone who follows these daily sketches may have noticed that when I really don’t know what to draw, I end up doodling something very abstract. Tonight I played vertical lines using black and white pencils to create shapes. It’s something I’ve toyed with before, and sometime when I have a […]

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in the act after the fact

Day one hundred and thirty-four: I had to get something in under the wire tonight, so I grabbed the business card of an artist and mimicked the charcoal style on the back as quickly as possible. Kay Fenton is a senior at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and this sketch imitates a […]

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altdorfer pine

This sketch is the ninety-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-four: Continuing the woodcut theme for a second day, this pine tree is based on one by German printmaker Albrecht Altdorfer. It’s from a series of forty tiny woodcuts narrating “The Fall and Redemption […]

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silhouette

This sketch is the eighty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-six: Very simple tonight. I just felt like practicing creating forms. This silhouette of a twiggy, flowering shrub is based on a detail from the place mat sitting next to my computer. The background, […]

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mad cat

This sketch is the eighty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-three: I’m repeatedly amazed at how enjoyable sketching can be even when I don’t think I have a drawing in me. Tonight I just starting scribbling, and that got the juices flowing. Then I […]

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courage

This sketch is the sixty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-six: I was contemplating this quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and wanted to create a composition that incorporated the text with an image. This is what happened as I started drawing while thinking about […]

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cupcake

This sketch is the fifty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-three: Sometimes simple is just as satisfying. Not a lot of time today, and I wasn’t sure what I was going to draw. Sat down to sketch and suddenly thought “white on black.” Then […]

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drippy still life

This sketch is the nineteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Nineteen: Super fast sketch of a flower vase using “real drippy pen.”

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dispair

This sketch is the fourteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Fourteen: Wasn’t sure what to draw, so I drew what came to mind. Been thinking about layers of color, so started there with a ground of pale yellow and brick; thought about Munch’s “Jealousy” […]

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face from the black

This sketch is the twelfth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Twelve: Back to the master of “The Scream.” This sketch is after a detail in a lithograph by Munch titled “Jealousy” (1896). Yes, he’s the jealous one, though in the print his eyes are […]

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