This sketch is the seventy-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-two: My friend Christopher has been encouraging me to practice figure drawing at a local artists’ coop where one can sketch a live model all Sunday afternoon. I spent a couple of hours there […]
Also tagged charcoal, conte crayon, figure studyThis sketch is the seventy-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-one: I won’t go into detail about why I drew a bird, a cello, and a clock today. Suffice to say they were all on my mind for one dull reason or another. Still […]
Also tagged abstract, woodcutThis sketch is the sixty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-nine: Well, tonight at 10:00 PM after a long productive day I felt entirely wiped out, but I still hadn’t made a sketch. I didn’t even have the energy pick a subject. While flipping […]
Also tagged landscape, waterThis sketch is the sixty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-eight: My favorite text message today came from a friend looking for a word that was on the tip of his tongue: “What is the term used for the technique developed by the Greeks […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, athlete, figure study, sculptureThis sketch is the sixty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-two: My friend Christopher posed a little challenge this morning, suggesting Egon Schiele’s “Standing Girl” in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts might make a good drawing exercise. I paged through a […]
Also tagged art on art, face, schieleThis sketch is the sixty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-one: Sometimes at the end of the day when I haven’t made my sketch I have no idea what to draw. A quick flip through a book of prints by Munch is almost always […]
Also tagged art on art, charcoal, face, munchThis sketch is the sixtieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty: This afternoon I was looking at William Blake’s series of engravings for the Book of Job, and his integration of illustration and text. Unrelated, I was also thinking about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. […]
Also tagged faceThis 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 […]
Also tagged figure studyThis 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 […]
Also tagged anatomy, handThis 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 […]
Also tagged black, food, still life, white