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
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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
Sketching week 9: Atmosphere, do I look like an “atmosphere”? If you are not French you wont get the joke in the title of this entry: “do I look like an atmosphere” is one of old french movies’ most famous … Continue reading
Sketching week 8 3d round and round! …and old masters on top Exhausted, the heat is particularly hard on me and 100°F in Paris is horrible: we are not equipped for this: no air conditioning no fan (well, I finally … Continue reading
Sketching week 7 silhouettes are made of these…. Imagine you are drawing a silhouette, with your finger, ok, a stickman in frontal view, not difficult, everybody will see it’s a human. Well done! Lets up the game a bit: draw, … Continue reading
The topic of the week is “quick sketches” and Glenn starts his video (of teaching and demonstrating – an hour plus, worth looking at several times) by asking: what is quick sketching? Being the idiot I am, upon hearing that … Continue reading
Have you ever had that sensation that you can’t draw anymore, that all your efforts make you draw worse than before, that you are shmidt (politically correct word, borrowed from an episode of Boston legal: Schmidt Happens) that your art … Continue reading
Black and white, dark and light…. even if the world is made of shades of grey, both physically and philosophically, light and dark are keys to giving depth to a drawing, we saw that last week already, and this week … Continue reading