Been a busy few weeks, probably made worse by feeling pretty burnt out. Still, I’ve managed to do a bit of drawing. It is slowly feeling more natural to just start drawing, but I need to stop relying so much on reference.
Anatomy has been on the mind a lot recently, learning about it is almost [...]
Like fuming from the ears angry. I swear loudly and snap pencils. I also stab my desk with the craft knife. It is times like those where I get very hesitant about what I am doing, but at the same time the anger can spark creativity. It is a funny old situation, particularly for those [...]
Over the last month I have tried to draw a posed model every day. I did not succeed and ended with 20 something sketches, half of which were fairly quick and rough. Here are a few tips of what I have learnt from this experience and where this takes me now. At the bottom are [...]
Those of you who have been reading for the last month will know that I am trying to get a lot better at drawing. I set myself an overly ambitious task, which I can’t keep up with and it probably isn’t a beneficial approach anyway. Making sure you draw every day is not a realistic [...]
It is true, I am scared of shading. Not like phobia bad, but enough to give me the bad habit of under-shading. When I finish drawing the outline of my work, the idea of basically scribbling all over it and applying varying pressures as you go sounds like a nightmare.
What makes it pretty embarrassing is [...]
Shading is a technique I have very rarely ever used, so it was pretty scary putting a bit of pressure on my pencil and giving the image some depth. You may of seen in the previous post featuring model drawing and my epic task that I had given shading a go. It was a bit [...]
The final words before breaking up for Christmas were ‘try and draw as often as possible and if you can, at least once a day’. There are no shortcuts in learning to draw it seems. You must practice drawing frequently, if you want to get good at drawing. I was never one of those kids [...]
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