Art, whether it’s a painting, comic, or animated movie, is one of the most widely accessible and universal forms of entertainment. Even so, artistic skill has a culture of mysticism and high brow learning surrounding it. Many laymen don’t understand that drawing is a practiced skill, like a
At the end of my last post, I mentioned that I would be focusing on value and rendering, and that’s exactly what I’ve done! It turns out graphite is an arduous medium for creating rendered drawings with a wide value range. At the advice of internet people, I’
I’ve joined an internet forum where there are bi-weekly challenges, and the latest one was to draw a perspective heavy scene from a provided reference. This might be my longest drawing at nearly 4 hours. Perspective is hard, and I decided not to use any rulers and hand jam
I did these paintings at a class that supplied all materials. Each painting was 2-2.5 hours, which is a relatively short amount of time for an oil painting, and they were all from a live model. Being new to painting, there were a lot of new factors I had
I enjoy this sketch due to its simplification of forms and subtle gesture. The figure isn’t in an extreme pose, but the tilt of the pelvis and shoulders, raise of the arms, and turn of the head accumulate to create a very dynamic gesture. I drew this from a
Ducreax is known for breaking convention by creating expressive portraits. He’s known for much more expressive portraits than what I recreated above, but I like to think I captured the subdued smile of the reference.
I’ve been getting into master studies recently thanks to an artist I’ve been watching called Katie Maeve, and what better artist to study from than John Sargent who is one of the most well regarded portrait painters of all time. Something I wanted to practice in this study
This is a continuation of my Kopinski inspired drawing. The shadows under the armor plates were hard to get right in ink, but I like the face. I took a picture of my loose pencils, so I wanted to show it here. I moved straight to inking from the sketch
I’ve been inspired by Karl Kopinski lately so I’ve started drawing soldiers and astronauts. I had a couple things I wanted to practice with this type of drawing: * Get better at drawing bags, cloth, accessories, etc. * Start with a very loose sketch and then tighten it up in
I view this piece as a turning point in my ability to draw portraits. Rendering and values have long been something I’ve neglected to study, but they are inherently important when creating portraits. After watching Katie Maeve draw and really grasping how to see values, my portraits have gotten
These heads were drawn in ink, no under sketching. Drawing in ink is a skill that people like Kim Jung Gi and Peter Han have essentially mastered. I was much worse at it when I first started practicing this way, but with repetition I’ve gotten better at it, like