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Category: Drawing

  • The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course

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    Wow! What an amazing treasure trove this is for anyone interested in animation or cartoon drawing. It should really be titled: “The $100,000 Animation Drawing Course for $8”. There is so much great stuff here that this should be a site of its own, but it’s actually part of the terrific ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project…

  • Al Hirschfeld

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    I promised you something lighthearted today, so how about the wonderful drawings of Al Hirschfeld? OK, so maybe you’re familiar with Hirschfeld. Maybe you’re seen the documentary on his life and work, The Line King on PBS. Maybe you’ve seen his work in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum…

  • Claude Lorrain

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    Landscape has always had a place in Western art, but it wasn’t until the 17th Century that it came to the foreground, so to speak. French master Claude Lorrain is one of history’s great landscape painters. His name was actually Claude Gellée. He is better know by Lorrain, from Lorraine, the region of his birth,…

  • Keys to Drawing with Imagination by Bert Dodson

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    I received a review copy of Keys to Drawing with Imagination by Bert Dodson from F+W Publications. Bert Dodson is a painter, illustrator, teacher and author whose previous book on the subject of drawing, Keys to Drawing is a standard in the field of popular “how to draw” books. In a vein somewhat similar to…

  • Robolus (Roberto Freire)

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    Roberto Freire does wonderful caricatures and, as of January 1 of this year, has repurposed his blog, Robolus.com, to be dedicated to his New Year’s resolution to draw and post “A Caricature a Day”. He had my attention immediately when I saw his caricatures done from drawings by the great portrait artist Hans Holbein the…

  • Annibale Carracci’s Book of Portraiture (?)

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    I have to admit I’m not quite sure what this is. I came across it from a link somewhere (and have unfortunately forgotten the connection), and bookmarked it under “cool drawing resource”. Carracci was a 16th Century Italian master renowned for his beautiful frescos and paintings, and credited with inventing caricature in the modern sense.…