Category: Drawing
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Susan Rudat
Susan Rudat is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Texas. On both her blog and her Flickr gallery she often posts drawings and sketches done in Molekine sketchbooks. Some of her drawings have a nicely graphic quality, as if designed to be woodcuts, with bold areas of black and carefully designed patterns of…
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Leonardo’s Drawings
Leonardo da Vinci is one of those artists, like Rembrandt, Monet or Van Gogh, who is obscured from us by the brilliance of his fame. It is almost impossible to look at Leonardo without the attendant baggage of his reputation as the ultimate embodiment of the Renaissance, one of the most brilliant minds in history,…
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Drawing Day 08 (June 7, 2008)
You may have heard the term “Web 2.0” bandied about in the last couple of years. Steming from an O’Reilly Publishing conference a few years ago, “Web 2.0” is a rather nebulous term referring not to actual changes in the technology, but to a shift in the way information is disseminated and accessed using the…
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Draw yourself as a teen
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…
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Pen Drawing by Charles Maginnis on Project Gutenberg
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…
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Creativity Enhancing Disease? (Anne Adams)
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…