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Category: Drawing

  • Figure & Gesture Drawing Tool

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    Though figure drawing classes and open studio sessions are frequently available at art schools and artist organizations in larger metropolitan areas (see my post on the Directory of Figure Drawing Sessions), it’s not always easy or convenient to find a class nearby. In 2007 I wrote an article about online or on disc substitutes for…

  • The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, 4th Edition

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    Like the 1930’s Hollywood cliché of the civilized explorers wowing the backward and worshipful natives with the “magic” of a cigarette lighter held aloft at a dramatic moment, there has long been an assignment of magic to the ability to draw and paint realistically in our culture. This comes from the notion that the ability…

  • Nagai Hideyuki

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    Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki has created a fun series of drawings that span two sketchbooks propped at 90° to one another, and when viewed from the proper angle, give the illusion of continuous three dimensionality. You can see a selection on his website and on his deviantART page. There is a video on YouTube that…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait

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    Portrait of Mme Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, née Sophie Leroy, graphite drawing by Jean-Aguste-Dominique Ingres. I love how casual the rest of the drawing seems compared to the carefully rendered face. From the Morgan Library and Museum. More here. Use the controls under the image for Zoom and Full Screen.

  • Gérard Michel

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    Gérard Michel is a Belgian architect based in Liége, who also teaches courses in sketching and drawing at the school of architecture there. Aside from that, I know little about him except for the wealth of his wonderful location drawings as displayed on the Urban Sketchers blog and on Michel’s own Flickr sets. He sketches…

  • John Singer Sargent on Met Museum website

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    Today is John Singer Sargent’s birthday. A search for his work on the wonderful, recently redesigned website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art brings up over 600 images. Yes, the iconic and astonishingly accomplished society portraits are well represented, and if you want to focus on those, you can limit your search to show only…