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Category: Drawing

  • Ingres at the Morgan

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    Throughout my life I’ve been fortunate to experience a series of wonderful “Ah-Ha!” moments when I’ve come across a new genre or artist that made me feel like I was opening my eyes on a new world. Discovering the graphite portrait drawings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres when I was an art student was one of them.…

  • Nina Johansson

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    Swedish artist, designer and teacher Nina Johansson subtitles her website “Because drawing is good for you”, and its pages are filled with the ripe, healthy fruit of that philosophy, lots of wonderful drawings, sketches and watercolors. Johansson seems to take as her favorite subject that most perfect of all drawing subjects — what’s in front…

  • Figure Drawing for All it’s Worth, Andrew Loomis

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    When I was in my late teens, earnestly trying to learn the art and craft of comic book illustration, I stumbled across a find in the dusty shelves of a used bookstore that popped my eyes open and sent me home feeling like I had struck gold. It was a copy of Figure Drawing for…

  • The Practice & Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

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    In my post on resources for Learning to Draw back in October, one of the books I mentioned for those on a dedicated path was Harold Speed’s The Practice and Science of Drawing. Though illustrated, this book, like Speed’s well regarded book Oil Painting Techniques and Materials, is less “look and follow” instruction, and more…

  • Degas Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum

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    Unlike his fellow members of the inner circle of French Impressionism, who largely eschewed drawing for the more immediate direct application of paint, Edgar Degas put great emphasis on drawing. He was, to my mind, one of the greatest proponents of draftsmanship of the late 19th Century, creating a great many striking drawings in pastel,…

  • Thought of You (Ryan Woodward)

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    Thought of You (also on Vimeo) is a short animation by professional animator, storyboard and concept artist Ryan Woodward. It is a simple but beautifully done dance sequence, with suggestions of a story, but open ended enough for viewers to make their own interpretations. Elegantly animated, the sequence is set to World Spins Madly On…