Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Drawing

  • Draw yourself as a teen

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    Here’s a great idea, started as a simple notion by webcomics artist and blogger Dave Valeza, and now snowballed into something of an internet meme. The suggestion was simple: “challenge: draw yourself as a teen“, supplemented with “if you are still a teen, draw your future post-teen self”. Word has gotten around, as people have…

  • Pen Drawing by Charles Maginnis on Project Gutenberg

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    I love pen and ink drawing. It has a visual charm and character unlike any other medium. I assume that I came by my affection for it from realizing as a teenager that pen and ink drawing was the basis for comic books and cartoons, but I was also exposed at a pretty early age…

  • Creativity Enhancing Disease? (Anne Adams)

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    No, you don’t want to get it. The New York Times has published an article, A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity, on the case of Dr. Anne Adams, a Canadian scientist who suffered from a form of dementia called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, in which certain parts of the brain are adversely affected and…

  • The Face of Leonardo?

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    It has long been assumed that the red chalk drawing shown above is a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. It certainly looks like what we expect or want the great Renaissance artist to look like, his penetrating deep-set eyes gazing out at us from distant past, weighted with the perhaps painful wisdom of great insight…

  • Barrett Bailey

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    Barrett Bailey is an Alabama artist working in the classical realist tradition. Though you will find small still life paintings and an occasional landscape in his online galleries, Bailey is primarily a figure and portrait artist. The Paintings section of his site includes paintings in a range of sizes and degrees of finish, from small…

  • My Father’s Hand (Samuel Wray)

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    My Father’s Hand is a tribute blog, created by designer Amanda Wray to showcase the drawings of her father, Samuel Wray. Samuel Wray was a commercial artist in some capacity, though I know little about his commercial work other than that he did some inking and lettering projects for comics, notably for a Robinson Crusoe…