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Checking Your Proportions, Drawing Three-Dimensionally, and Winning Competitions

It Kinda Draws the Eye In by Matt Tucker, 2011, graphite and white charcoal, 7½ x 14. The spring issue of Drawing is now available, and it's full of resources for artists, especially if you are into figure drawing or figure painting. Here's...

Published 30 May 2012 1:20 PM by Austin R. Williams

Filed under: art, Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw people, sketching, How to Paint, Figure Painting
Grandpa Is Wearing His Batman Costume Again

Earlier this week I was lucky enough to attend the opening of Jason Bard Yarmosky's solo show "Elder Kinder" at Lyons Wier Gallery, in New York City. It's a terrific painting exhibition, and it got me thinking about how an artist can...

Published 16 May 2012 10:39 PM by Austin R. Williams

Filed under: art, Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw people, How to Paint, Oil Painting, Figure Painting, Artist Daily
What Would Rubens Do?

Leah by Patricia Watwood, pencil on toned paper, 18 x 14, 2011. I have just finished two big projects. Foremost, my show Myths and Individuals opened at the end of October at Saint Louis University Museum of Art. In two months the show will open for it's...

Published 11 Jan 2012 10:04 PM by Patricia Watwood

Filed under: art, Drawing Basics, How to Paint, Figure Painting
Drawing Basics: How I Judge My Artistic Progress & Learning from Robert Liberace

This is a long pose drawing that made it into my "evaluate" pile. Part of the artistic learning process for me is learning how to evaluate my work, not on a piece by piece basis, but collectively. This summer I am looking at my drawing art works...

Published 26 Jul 2011 1:32 PM by judith St. Ledger - Roty

Filed under: drawing, art, Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw, how to draw people, How to Paint, Figure Painting
Drawing Basics: Judith Carducci's Workshop and the Benefits of Drawing and Working From Life

During a recent plein air workshop in Southern France, Judith Carducci helped students who worked with pen-and-ink, pastel, watercolor, and oil colors. The unifying themes of the 10-day class were that drawing basics are a foundation of all media and...

Published 11 Sep 2008 8:31 AM by Karyn

Filed under: drawing, art, Drawing Basics, painting, pastel, how to draw, plein air, Portrait Painting, How to Paint, Oil Painting, Ink Drawing, Figure Painting

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Checking Your Proportions, Drawing Three-Dimensionally, and Winning Competitions

Grandpa Is Wearing His Batman Costume Again

What Would Rubens Do?

Drawing Basics: How I Judge My Artistic Progress & Learning from Robert Liberace

Drawing Basics: Judith Carducci's Workshop and the Benefits of Drawing and Working From Life