Category: Drawing
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Doodle 4 Google
Those who don’t, like me, use a shortcut for search in a browser bar, but instead actually go to the Google homepage, will frequently see Google Doodles. These are versions of the Google logo made of illustrated elements that, to one degree or anther, suggest or form the letters of the word. Google has artists…
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Eye Candy for Today: Paul Weber pencil drawing
Forest Scene, Paul Weber Roughly 6×5″ (15x12cm). In the Walters Art Museum. Click “Explore Object” in upper left of image for zoomable version.
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Art Model Tips
In my years of drawing from the model in life drawing sessions, as a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts through additional classes at the Delaware Art Museum School, the Fleischer Art Memorial, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Plastic Club, the Delaware College of Art and Design and other venues, I’ve learned…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt landscape drawing
Cottage near the Entrance to a Wood, Rembrandt van Rijn. If I were writing an illustrated dictionary of art terms, next to “economy of notation” I would have one of Rembrandt’s drawings. Interestingly, for an artist whose paintings were primarily portraiture, many of Rembrandt’s etchings, and a high percentage of the drawings apparently done for…
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Ashley Edge
Ashley Edge is an artist based in Manchester, U.K. who works primarily in graphite on board. He has begun to post illustrations to a blog, beginning with some interpretations of stories by Angela Carter and H.G. Wells. You will also find some graphite portraits, and reference to a project he is working on with designer…
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Proko drawing tutorials
Proko.com is a website maintained by artist and teacher Stan Prokopenko, in which he offers a number of free drawing tutorials as well as a full length portrait drawing instructional DVD that can be purchased through the site. The free tutorials are among the best I’ve seen on the web, and to date feature instruction…