Challenge: Draw Your Favorite Fictional Character
Art Place recently challenged would-be artists to do a two-minute sketch. Today, the challenge is to draw one of your favorite characters.
Types of Fixative, the Good and the Bad
The pros and cons of the different type of fixative based on my own experiences.
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.
Webinar Follow-up
I had just completed my first live webinar (live online class) in 4 years. I can’t believe how technology has changed and it went without a single problem. We ran out of time and I wanted to do a follow-up. Instead of taking pictures of the final results, I...
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: