Left Brain vs Right Brain Sketching Study Experiment – come on, I dare you to try it.
I’m challenging you to try this experiment to see how your brain reacts just by holding a drawing tool a certain way.
New Challenge for you.. the 2 Minute Kitchen Sketch
Making myself a cup of coffee, I find myself always looking around my kitchen at all the wonderful “shapes” are around me. The shape of the coffee pot, the negative space between nooks and crannies…all that stuff. So I figured I’d sit in the kitchen to do some fast and furious sketching.
How the Death of my Dog Helped me Teach People to Draw Better
Many times I will come across someone who loves to draw. She is proud of her ideas and when I’m shown these drawings, I notice facial, figure and animal drawings that are out of proportion. I don’t ever have to say anything because within seconds, I will hear “I know the nose is too long” or “the eyes are too far apart” and “the ears are too big”. When I ask how they started their drawing, most of the time it’s from a photo or a magazine which is fine, because we all can’t draw from life. When I ask how they worked out their outline sketch, this is where it gets interesting:
Dog Portrait Drawing Lesson – Portrait of Wilf – as taught at the Coast to Coast Convention
This is the pet portrait I was teaching at the Coast to Coast Creative Arts Convention on May 5th. I was debating putting in the scratch on Wilf’s nose and the crooked whiskers, but that’s what gives him character. With this portrait, there was a lot of wild fur on the outside, so I cropped it tight to focus on the
Drawing a Shih Tzu in Coloured Pencil
Coloured pencil drawing lesson of a Shih Tzu. Also included is why you should make colour swatches of all your art mediums on different paper, a demonstration of my “airplane stroke using the touch, push, lift” mantra and how to layer and burnish layers...
Coloured Paper for Coloured Pencil
Another one of the most frequently asked questions I get is “what colour of paper should I use with Coloured Pencils?”. I thought I would do a short demonstration on how coloured pencil “colours” change based on the colour of the paper you...
