Almost every artist I know who depicts people or creates portraits has spent time painting from photographs or drawing from them. It may not be how they develop a work foremost, but it is a useful method, especially when you want to capture a likeness and don't have the luxury of having your model...
Fernando Freitas' Jesse and Friend is drawn in graphite. Freitas teaches his students to be aware of the sheen graphite creates on the paper surface. I've been waiting all my life to have a red-carpet moment, but who knows when the Academy will get around to remembering my searing director's...
David Jon Kassan discusses Sam Ivie's Cellini Revisited. Cellini Revisited by Sam Ivie, 2000, colored pencil drawing, 8 x 10. Collection the artist. Looking at Drawings: Cellini Revisited by Sam Ivie by David Jon Kassan In this small colored pencil drawing, Dallas artist Sam Ivie mixed photorealistic...