I’m home from camp and back to more spacious mornings, with time to practice faces, and Internet access to faces to draw.
These are all 30- and 60-second warmup sketches. My accuracy is not very good yet, but I’m enjoying the challenge of having a minute or less. It forces you to see things in a different way–find the representative shapes and lines FAST!
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LCN 062: A Conversation with Renaissance Man Chris Wesley
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Today you get to be a fly on the wall for a conversation I had with one of my artist peer-heroes: Chris Wesley.
It’s a pretty long conversation — over an hour — and we actually spoke last year, way back in September. The reason it’s taken me so long to publish it is that I originally planned to publish conversations, oh, maybe once a month, but I realized pretty quickly that if I’m going to do any editing, and put together any kind of comprehensive show notes, it is just way faster and easier to do a monologue!
I honestly thought that episodes with guests would be faster — after all, I don’t have to come up with content — the guest provides the content. Our conversation just becomes the content. Whereas with my monologues, I put a lot of time into writing out what I want to talk about.
But after recording, conversations are a lot more work.
In order to create show notes, I have to listen to the entire conversation again and take notes. And honestly, my perfectionist tendencies kinda go wild.
Yes, I’m a card-carrying imperfectionist, but what that really means is that I’m a recovering perfectionist. I am completely transparent about the fact that I am not fully recovered yet!
For my podcast, I had visions of editing my conversation recordings into really tight, streamlined, narrated, This American Life kind of productions.
And that is just crazy time-consuming. Like full-time job time-consuming.
So I have a lot of interviews, recorded conversations, that have just been sitting on my hard drive!
I finally realized the only way to get these recordings out onto the podcast would be to [Read more…]
Hand-Lettering Tips: The 4 C’s of Effective Calligraphy Practice
So you want to learn calligraphy? And you want to get good at it quickly? There’s no “instant download” shortcut, alas, but this series of articles will tell you how to get better faster.
Whether you want to learn brush lettering, pointed pen calligraphy (Copperplate, Spencerian, or more modern styles), Italic, Uncial, Blackletter, or any other calligraphy or lettering style, I’m sure you know it takes practice.
But not just any practice. Effective practice.
Good practice habits lead to beautiful letterforms. Follow these tips, and you’ll get better at calligraphy a lot faster.
How to Get Good at Calligraphy FAST: The 4 C’s of Effective Calligraphy Practice
1. Conscious Practice
Practice makes permanent (not necessarily perfect!), so in order to develop good habits it is most important to [Read more…]
Snapshot from My Studio: June 17, 2016 at 02:27PM
This page of 17 30- and 60-second sketches is my contribution today for face #30. 30 faces in 30 days! Or 30 days of daily faces, since some days I’ve sketched multiple faces, as today.
I have an album of face photos on my iPad to refer to while I’m in the woods, but I’m giving myself permission not to draw at all, if making music (which is, after all, the whole reason for going to music camp!) is more compelling.
I’d like to get at least a few minutes in, but I’m letting myself off the hook.
Have a great week, and go get creating!
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New Calligraphy: June 17, 2016 at 01:34PM
#Reposting @calligraphyhowto with @instarepost_app — I’ll be swingin’ in the trees at music camp for 9 days. No internet (!) I’ll be back with more calligraphy when I come home.
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