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 […]
Also tagged abstract, black, pencilThis 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, pencil, still lifeThis sketch is the forty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-nine: Yesterday morning, when I drove through Wisconsin, the fog was remarkably thick, and sometimes I could only see a few meters ahead of my car. This sketch is my impression from memory of […]
Also tagged fog, oil, winterThis sketch is the forty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-five: Fellow 365-day sketcher, Sara, creates awesome pictures in which figures and objects emerge from darkness. This mask was inspired by some mask-like faces in a drawing of hers from a couple days ago […]
Also tagged face, oil, still lifeThis 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.”
Also tagged black, pen and ink, still lifeThis 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 […]
Also tagged art on art, black, face, gray, munchThis sketch is the ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Nine: My scramble to sketch the first thing in front of me at midnight last night, led me to slaughter a woodcut by Edvard Munch. This more careful study of my favorite print of […]
Also tagged art on art, black, gray, munchThis sketch is the eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Eight: Super fast sketch inspired by a woodcut by Edvard Munch titled “Encounter in Space.” The true encounter for me was not in space, but time, when I realized at 12:05 AM that I […]
Also tagged art on art, black, gray, munchThis sketch is the seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Seven: Bird’s wing and a bit of the skull face, finger painted and (poorly) copied after Dürer’s engraving, Coat of Arms with a Skull. Dürer hated copiers, which he called “envious thieves.” You bet […]
Also tagged art on art, bird, black, Dürer, gray, skull, wingThis sketch is the sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Six: Sometimes, when you’re trying to make a new program create the colors you want, it’s best to just use black and white. This is a finger-painted sketch after the woodcut-like rower that’s been […]
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