Category: Tools and Techniques
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How to Paint a Portrait
(David R. Darrow)Here’s an interesting take on the process of painting a portrait – from the subjects point of view. Geoff Bouvier had his portrait painted by artist David R. Darrow, who I profiled previously in the context of one of my earliest reports on the practice of creating a “painting a day” and a later related…
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Poser, Pose Maniacs and Virtual Pose
Most artists who are involved in inventing figures have seen, and probably used, manikins, posable wooden figures about the size of Barbie dolls, that can be used as stand-ins for live models or photographic reference. The basic wooden manikins never seem to move far enough, and the shapes are pretty rudimentary, but there are now…
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Carlos Cabrera
Carlos Cabrera is an Argentinean concept artist and illustrator who works primarily in the gaming industry. His online Portfolio has images from some of his projects, though some are not represented because of non-disclosure agreements. The About page on his site mentions some of the projects he has worked on and describes his role in…
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Willy Pogany
William Andrew Pogany, called “Willy”, was a prolific Hungarian born illustrator, active around the turn of the last century, who illustrated over a hundred books. Most were children’s classics like Arabian Nights, and Mother Goose, even Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but also included less common titles like the Bhagavad Gita and the Rubiat. Before coming…
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The drawing bench (horse)
Though I use them for painting, I have never been fond of easels when attending life drawing sessions. They always seemed awkward, uncomfortable and in my way when trying to get from model to eye to hand to paper as directly as possible. Fortunately, I encountered many interesting tools from the academic art tradition early…
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David Bull
In the days long before the convenience of offset printing and the sophisticated inkjet technology of Giclée prints, artists who wanted to create more than one copy of an artwork had to utilize printmaking techniques that were often elaborate and time consuming, though somewhat less so than creating multiple originals. These days many of these…