Category: Drawing
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Poser, Pose Maniacs and Virtual Pose
Most artists who are involved in inventing figures have seen, and probably used, manikins, posable wooden figures about the size of Barbie dolls, that can be used as stand-ins for live models or photographic reference. The basic wooden manikins never seem to move far enough, and the shapes are pretty rudimentary, but there are now…
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Willy Pogany
William Andrew Pogany, called “Willy”, was a prolific Hungarian born illustrator, active around the turn of the last century, who illustrated over a hundred books. Most were children’s classics like Arabian Nights, and Mother Goose, even Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but also included less common titles like the Bhagavad Gita and the Rubiat. Before coming…
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The drawing bench (horse)
Though I use them for painting, I have never been fond of easels when attending life drawing sessions. They always seemed awkward, uncomfortable and in my way when trying to get from model to eye to hand to paper as directly as possible. Fortunately, I encountered many interesting tools from the academic art tradition early…
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Portraits of Sandra Day O’Connor
For many years I have been going, on and off, to open figure drawing and painting sessions here in Phliadelphia at either the Philadelphia Sketch Club or the Plastic Club, two of the country’s oldest arts organizations. These are not classes, per se, with a set course of instruction, but simply sessions where artists jointly…
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Dan Gheno
Dan Gheno is an artist and teacher who places a special emphasis on figure drawing. He teaches at The Art Students League and The National Academy School in New York and is Prefessor Emeritus, The Lyme Academy College in Old Lyme, Connecticut. I’m particularly fond of his life drawings because his approach is similar to…
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the asia drawing portal
This is a tremendously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere. Though the emphasis is a bit more focused on contemporary artists, the site is a bit like lines and colors in terms of the different genres covered: illustration, gallery art, comics, concept art…