Category: Drawing
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Robert Kogge
I think the role of texture, whether physical or rendered, plays a more important part in the visceral presence and visual impact of artworks than is often mentioned. It is frequently overshadowed by the more overt characteristics of a painting or drawing. There are artists, however, for whom texture a major component in their artistic…
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Learning to draw: where to go from here
Tim, a Lines and Colors reader, wrote me to say that he had recently become inspired to return to the practice of drawing. He had purchased a copy of Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (see my post here), and was looking for other books and resources to pursue his interest…
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Laura Barnard
UK based illustrator Laura Barnard specializes in cityscapes and architectural subjects, “the more complicated they are the better”. She works in both traditional and digital media, mixing them at times. Her fine line approach works well in her portrayal of complex jumbles of buildings, latticed with detail and texture. She has an informal line, allowing…
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Line by Line, James McMullan
I have long been a proponent of the idea that drawing is as much of a natural potential ability for human beings as writing. I’ve often wondered about that odd demarcation somewhere around puberty where an unspoken law seems to take effect and “all children draw” becomes “only some teenagers and adults draw because they’re…
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Continuous Pencil
Well, the “Liquid Pencil” turned out to be a dud, so how about a more modest bit of pencil inventiveness? Most of us who use wooden drawing pencils have experienced the stub problem; once your wooden pencil is worn down to a stub that’s too small to comfortably use, what do you do with it?…
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Don Kenn
Don Kenn (whose blog also confusingly lists him as John Kenn) is a Danish writer and director of childrens’ television shows. In his limited spare time he draws “Monsterdrawings” on Post-It notes; as he describes them “…a little window into a different world, made on office supplies”. The drawings, of ghouls and ghosts, sea monsters…