I wish I could draw like Kate Beaton. It’s a deceptively simple, sketchy style that encompasses a whole range of facial expressions and body language. When you think about what’s going on there its two things that are not easy: having a repertoire of different ways of drawing people (including costumes and hairstyles) and knowing… Continue Reading
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IFFYF&FDF plus links…
Or as we call it: I Follow Flash your fur and flash drive Friday. In the office doing some training and then some recruiting. Big open house tonight. I ran across an interesting post that in some way relates to what I was talking about yesterday. Where I work it’s very easy for all of… Continue Reading
Where’d you get that idea?
I got the idea not to vote for Bloomberg today from his cavalier disregard for the laws of the city he governs, by which I mean that he is of the new breed of plutocrats who change the rules when it suits them. I’m still pissed at the city council for caving in to his… Continue Reading
At the table
Long evening spent drawing, to little effect. Mostly because the drawing consisted of a lot of dicking around on Photoshop because there’s stuff about it that I can’t figure out. And my brush technique is atrocious. Oh well, live and learn. In twenty-four hours I will have seen the season four premiere of the Venture… Continue Reading
Send the Kids out of the Room for Big Link Friday…
Wow I had a hard time getting down to writing this week’s BLF. I’d thought I’d gotten the jump on it, but then Inspiration just flew away. So I’m just going to blurt it all out. Without the clever transitions I was envisioning. Some of this stuff is NSFW just so you know before clicking… Continue Reading
A simple explanation…
Tags: drawing, self daily
I remember certain postcards suddenly became valuable…
El Rey Gnomo is snoring on the bed. My sinuses seem to be pushing snot into each other with a cast iron plunger. George McCrae is singing “Rock Your Baby”, which is a “disco song” but well, I just don’t know. The art season started last night. Thousands thronged the streets of Chelsea to go… Continue Reading
Life imitates art…
Draw what you know they say. Well it’s write what you know actually. But maybe that works for drawing too. Today was a funny one, many interesting conversations and thinking about issues, issues, issues. And then there was that lovely mango with lemon juice and chili. And then I went to see Taxidermia which had… Continue Reading
Looking at naked people (and moving your hand…)
First time back at figure drawing in quite a few years, so here’s a couple of observations: 1.I needed to get my gear together to go draw, which meant in part getting a pad. I’ve got a shelf full of sketchbooks of every possible size, because I will use any excuse to buy art supplies,… Continue Reading