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Female Nude, Seen From the Back
by Jacob Jordaens, ca. 1640, chalk drawing, 10 x 8.
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The Drawing Blog on Artist Daily is like a black hole for
me. I just get sucked in and click around and read what catches my eye and all
of a sudden I realize an hour (or more!) has passed. I invite you to join me in
this black hole—it is way more fun than being in a real black hole, I
promise—and check out a few of my favorite
Drawing Blog entries.
I've always been intimidated by long-pose drawing because it
just seemed like it offered me more time to mess up a semi-decent drawing. I feel
as if I simply wouldn't stop working on it and find a comfortable place to call
it done. Dan Gheno offers the antidote to this anxiety with his strategies on
how to keep a long-pose drawing energetic and alive.
I've rarely taken the time to look at Ingres' drawings, so
Mark Mitchell's blog on the artist was a revelation, especially the fact that
Ingres was known for his "miraculous" line work and his ability to use contour in an
extraordinary way. Reading through this solidified my own commitment to line as
opposed to a more volumetric approach to drawing.
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The Coen Brothers shoot scenes that
adhere very closely
to J. Todd Anderson’s storyboard drawings, as this
pair
showing the artist’s storyboard and a still from the Coen
Brothers’
film No Country for Old Men shows. |
And being a little drama queen at heart, I'm always up for
incorporating a little spice or mystery into the art. Linda Price does just
this by offering a
behind-the-scenes look at how the Coen Brothers work with a
storyboard artist to plan and execute every scene in their movies, including
Raising Arizona and
No Country for Old Men. It was such a fascinating read from the
artist about what this work is like.
There are so many interesting areas of drawing that I'm
eager to learn more about, whether it is discovering new draftsmen whose work I
admire, discovering how to facilitate a breakthrough in my own drawings with
insightful instruction, or how to draw different features of the human body.
But the source of all this top-level information stays the same: Drawing magazine. It is the one
publication that I can never see myself doing without, both as a huge fan of
works on paper and as someone who wants to have a committed drawing practice. I
hope you find your digital subscription (or print subscription) to Drawing
magazine is the same for you. Enjoy!
