Ahh! Abstract work feel so freeing after trying to put a likeness on paper!
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 11, 2016 at 11:49AM
Close up! Eyes are my favorite. ?
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 11, 2016 at 11:45AM
Face #24. Can you tell who he’s impersonating?
Eye candy, for sure! (And unusually go for the dark ones, not the Nordic types.) Drawn from a photo.
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Calligraphy Video: June 10, 2016 at 08:24PM
#Reposting @calligraphyhowto with @instarepost_app — This one is for @sweetangelbaby and @helloitstiffy ? I had to more than double speed it to get it to 30 seconds — calligraphy is slow!
Pen: Pigma Brush
Paper: Strathmore 400 Layout pad
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 10, 2016 at 08:43AM
Face #23. Who is this impersonating—can you tell? (I’ve decided that I draw portraits of impersonators. ?) My subject was a drawing of a famous person by Christopher Sia.
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Calligraphy Video: June 09, 2016 at 06:35PM
** #Reposting @calligraphyhowto with @instarepost_app ** This Pigma Brush pen came in a set of markers I bought to get my beloved Pigma Microns in different sizes. I was focusing on abstract b&w drawings (you can see several of them at my @a_creative_life IG account) and ignored the brush pen for the most part… Until I started doing calligraphy again!
Now it feels like a big score — like finding a $20 bill in your pocket. ?
Nice, flexible tip; deep black (archival) ink. What’s not to like?
Because the tip is long and flexible, it’s a little harder to get fine lines — flexible=not as easy for beginners as not-so-flexible. But still worth checking out.
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 09, 2016 at 10:41AM
Face #22. My goal was to get really loose, but it seems loosening up without copying someone else’s loose drawing may take awhile. We work with what we have, and each endeavor is a step along the way.
As a singing teacher of mine said, each performance is a rehearsal for the next performance.
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Calligraphy Video: June 08, 2016 at 07:18PM
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 08, 2016 at 08:29AM
Face #21 — 3 solid weeks of daily faces!
With this one, I’m trying to learn to draw more quickly, using someone else’s gesture drawing as inspiration.
My “native” mode is to get really caught up in the details, and much as I enjoy that, I don’t always want to spend the time! I’d like to be able to capture a likeness in fewer strokes.
Mimicking proportions precisely freehand is still beyond me, but the cool thing is that I’m getting better!
Not perfect, but *better*. And as an ex of mine always said, better is better!
The other cool thing is that I’ve drawn enough faces now that I’m starting to actually have a grasp of how light and shadow play on a face. I’m starting to see the common denominators — the shadows alongside the nose, under the lip, under the chin, on the cheek, above and below the eye.
I’m not drawing faces from my head *yet*, but I have a grasp of HOW people can actually do that!
If you do anything enough, you understand HOW to do it.
So now, instead of portrait drawing feeling like an incomprehensible mystery, like magic, I see the HOW behind it, and I have a little grasp of that how.
Dang, that is cool!
And I’d never have gotten here if I hadn’t STARTED! If I hadn’t let myself do it, even though I’m not as good at it as I want to be.
If you want to unsuck at something, you’ve got to let yourself suck for awhile.
I will continue to let myself be an imperfect learner at this. Because you know what? Frustrating as it can be, it’s FUN to learn new things!
Go try something you don’t know how to do well yet. It’s the DOING that will get you there. We get better by DOING, not by dreaming about doing.
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 07, 2016 at 11:20AM
This would be fun to color, don’t you think?
Someone told me these doodles look like a robot dance party. Seems like a good title, no?
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 07, 2016 at 10:12AM
Darkening up this portrait study, before moving on to the REAL goal for today: face #20! I’m going to try to make this one quick. Or at least quicker than usual… I have a podcast to record! ?
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 06, 2016 at 02:01PM
More whimsy.
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