Category: Tools and Techniques
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On taking photographs in art museums
Some years ago I found out, much to my surprise and delight, that personal photography was permitted in most major art museums in the US and many in Europe. Museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Gallery in Washington the the Louvre in Paris all permit you to…
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My Pocket Rembrandt
OK, I’ll explain what I mean by that. I’ve long been an admirer of Rembrandt’s drawings, particularly those done in reed pen, bistre ink and wash (e.g. the image above). (Bistre ink is made by boiling wood soot, often taken from wood-buring chimneys, in water. It produces as yellow-brown, transparent ink that was not favored…
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60 Photoshop Tutorials
Noupe has aggregated a list of 60 Photoshop Tutorials from various sources. The list includes links to other lists of tutorials, so it’s actually a few hundred links and tutorials. Some of them are directed specifically at creating digital art in Photoshop, like these 100 that I mentioned in a previous post (more here), and…
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Uni-ball Kuru Toga Pencil
As much as I like wooden pencils, when drawing with graphite my favorite tool is a leadholder, sometimes called a drafting pencil or clutch pencil; basically a mechanical holder for a nice big shaft of 2mm graphite that can be sharpened or pointed in a variety of ways. Many comic book artists and illustrators swear…
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Pose Maniacs (update)
Pose Maniacs, which I wrote about in 2007, is a Japanese web site that features 3D models of human figures, rendered with superficial musculature, for sketching and drawing reference. A high percentage of them are in an interface that allows you to turn them 360° on their vertical axis for a complete rotation of point…
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David Jon Kassan
Brooklyn based artist David Jon Kassan was born in Arkansas and studied in Philadelphia, New York and Florence, Italy. He has lectured, taught and given workshops at numerous universities and art centers, including the Rochester Institute of Technology, Western Illinois University, Syracuse University, National Academy School of Fine Art, the University of Alabama, the National…