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Turning a "Glance" Sketch Into a "Stare" Drawing

Recently I have been sketching on the train and in the train station. It took me quite a while to get up the courage to do it, and so far it is going well, though the process is different than when I am drawing in class. When I sketch in the train station...

Published 17 Jan 2013 12:38 AM by judith St. Ledger - Roty

Filed under: Drawing Basics, how to draw people, sketching, Drawing Faces

Seriously, All You Need Is Average Eye-Hand Coordination

Hello there, I'll be doing some blogging for Artist Daily about human ﬁgure drawing . The plan is to do half of the blogging as written text and half as video episodes where it would be easier to demonstrate the concepts I would like to talk about...

Published 23 Oct 2012 12:27 PM by Robert Stollar

Filed under: Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw, how to draw people, drawing anatomy, Artist Daily

Comics: The True Descendants of Classic Art

Fine art has evolved in many directions, but comic book art has retained a strain of DNA from classical times. The heroic Greek gods were the forbearers of our modern superheroes and the portrayal of those heroes has carried on in the tradition of how...

Published 16 Oct 2012 2:19 PM by Lee Oaks

Filed under: art, Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw people, drawing anatomy

Drawing with a Social Purpose

In some recent blogs, I have thought about drawing for the sake of drawing, and drawing for the sake of painting. Ja Fang Lu, an artist and instructor at Studio Incamminati, draws for these reasons too, but she also uses drawings that she is currently...

Published 25 Sep 2012 2:02 PM by judith St. Ledger - Roty

Filed under: Drawing Basics, how to draw people

I Am Captivated--I Hope You Are Too

I have always loved charcoal drawings. A few years ago, I came across a book of charcoal figure drawings by Henry Yan , who was then an instructor at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. I immediately bought two copies of the book--one to keep...

Published 28 Jun 2012 3:23 PM by judith St. Ledger - Roty

Filed under: art, Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw people, life drawing, still life, Charcoal Drawing

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

Looking Without Getting Lost

Lea Colie Wight drawing of a seated female. I am sure I have said this before, but it's true and deserves repeating. Watching great artists at work can be so instructive, especially if they follow a general process of work. Lea Colie Wight does exactly...

Published 9 Apr 2012 11:05 PM by judith St. Ledger - Roty

Filed under: Drawing Basics, pastel, figure drawing, how to draw people, sketching

It's a First for Us--See What's Coming in the Newest Issue of Drawing Magazine!

Pages from Sabin Howard's drawing sketchbook and a finished sculpture. We just put a wrap on the winter issue of Drawing —you'll be seeing it in your mailboxes and on newsstands in February, and can order it in the Artist Daily Store as...

Published 30 Jan 2012 10:00 PM by Austin R. Williams

Filed under: art, Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw people, sketching, Artist Daily

Art's Highest Achievement--Drawing the Portrait

There are so many significant milestones that an artist can mark his or her career by, but the one that is most exciting for me is the possibility of drawing people and capturing their likeness, whether it is a certain gesture they have or just the interesting...

Published 26 Dec 2011 10:18 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: art, Drawing Basics, how to draw, how to draw people

Drawing a Nose for 20 Weeks...Really?!

Drawing of a nose by Darren Kingsley with graphite pencil. The fall session at Studio Incamminati has begun, and I am taking classes with Darren Kingsley. One is in charcoal, and the other in graphite pencil . Last year as a new student, I was introduced...

Published 9 Nov 2011 10:34 PM by judith St. Ledger - Roty

Filed under: Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw people

A Stress-Free Drawing Master Class

This is a blog about drawing people from one of my favorite co-workers, Cate, the online editor of Cloth Paper Scissors . Enjoy! Proportion is key to life drawing. When I was a kid growing up in Michigan, I was privileged to take classes at Cranbrook...

Published 31 Oct 2011 10:50 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: drawing, art, Drawing Basics, how to draw people, still life, sketching, shading, Artist Daily

Tall Order: Drawing the Windows to the Soul

Click on any of the above images to see David Kassan's Drawing the Eyes . That is no small task, no doubt about it. Yet hundreds of thousands of us search every year online about how to draw eyes. Mostly, I think, because we take drawing eyes for...

Published 12 Oct 2011 1:29 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: Drawing Basics, figure drawing, how to draw people, Drawing Basics Faces, Drawing Faces

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: The Best Drawing Art Books

Plate VIII, Study for a Picture , chalk and pastel drawing. From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed. I was just telling a friend of mine that artists love books. That surprises some people, but it is totally true, especially if you love...

Published 7 Jul 2011 1:45 PM by Courtney Jordan

Filed under: drawing, art, Drawing Basics, pastel, figure drawing, how to draw, how to draw people, drawing anatomy

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