I’m going on vacation so here are the entries for week 9 and 10, if you want info about joining the class look at the end of this post. week9 This is it: A full body pose in a head … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2015
“Week 8 – simplifying clothes” is a strange title for a blog currently about a course treating of the head. But I have my orders: Glenn Vilppu seems to think I have most (not all) of the planes of the … Continue reading
It’s girls but not as we know them, Jim. “It’s girls but not as we know them, Jim.” Sorry for the bad Star Trek catch-phrase reuse (I’m a trekkie). But this week, I’m still working on my black and white, … Continue reading
6th week, and I’ve got something there (not on my nose) Squint! Do it, I mean it, and look around you. Harder… no, of course not to the point that you can’t read me anymore – very funny, ahum – … Continue reading
Big Masses (and I’m not talking about a diet) If there is one thing I learned last week, it’s that when you are drawing using only the blackest ink on the whitest paper, you need to have a perfect underlying … Continue reading
Nothing but ink stains (carefully done) on white paper Have you ever seen those ads for Photoshop plugins that “turn your picture into a hand-drawn work of art”? (add a choir singing Hallelujah in the background and a “before / … Continue reading
Head 3rd week, black ink by any other name….. Black and white, ink and paper, nothing grey, nothing in between, just black and white, working and having fun together (could the person suddenly humming “ebony and ivory” please tune it … Continue reading
Head week two: define “realistic” You draw a realistic head, render it a bit, using the usual realistic methods of shading in order to show the planes. OK so far so good. But what happens if you try to apply … Continue reading
I’m back! And I’m of course still studying with Glenn Vilppu online, with live chat and live crits etc, and this semester is going to be super-special. We’ve had almost two months off, the first month I spent entirely copying … Continue reading
Sketching week 10: From photo but not from photo, penguins! What are the pros of working from a photo? 1/ it doesn’t move. 2/ the weather in it is just an image, meaning a photograph of the north pole won’t … Continue reading