This sketch is the fifty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-nine: Today I undertook a fascinating exercise to draw a male figure using a technique that maps out anatomical proportion relative to the size of the head. Apparently a whole person is about 7 […]
Tagged figure study, pencilThis sketch is the fifty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-eight: I promised myself a few sketches ago that I would periodically work on my draftsmanship of human figures. So I dug out an anatomical guide for artists and started with a hand because […]
Tagged anatomy, hand, pencilThis sketch is the fifty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-seven: Today I made up a double batch of oatmeal peanut butter sandwich cookies. The recipe claims to be “so close” to the Girl Scout cookie equivalent that “you won’t know the difference.” These […]
Tagged food, oil, still lifeThis sketch is the fifty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-six: While watching the news on the built-in TVs in aerobic exercise machines at the gym, I became amazed at how many people around the world have recently been inspired by one another to […]
Tagged cartoon, oilThis sketch is the fifty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-five: This landscape was drawn after part of a snapshot one of my parents took when I was about 7, and we lived on a farm outside of Bemidji, MN. Making this picture helped […]
Tagged landscape, nature, oilThis sketch is the fifty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-four: I really admire artists who can draw figures doing just about anything. Whole scenes of men fighting or women bathing or both. I’m particularly fond of the ink and wash drawings of Ubaldo […]
Tagged art on art, chalk, figure study, pen and ink, washThis 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 […]
Tagged black, food, pencil, still life, whiteThis sketch is the fifty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-two: Since snow-related parking restrictions began earlier this winter, an old yellow truck has appeared frequently on my block. I suspect its owner must live on a neighboring street, but has been forced by […]
Tagged oil, pencil, winter, yellowThis sketch is the fifty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-0ne: This sketch was inspired by my own study of water yesterday, but more importantly a print in my collection by late 19th-century artist Alphonse Legros. He used drypoint and the impression has quite […]
Tagged art on art, landscape, nature, pen and ink, waterThis sketch is the fiftieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty: Wasn’t sure what to draw, but wanted to work on a study of still water. Started in oil, but wasn’t in the mood to mess with color. Pencil was just the thing to […]
Tagged landscape, nature, pencil, water