Day 7: Looking to the vegetable drawer
A week into this project and I've produced some interesting if not wholly realistic drawings. What I do like about this process it's possible to find »
Day 6: Another ordinary object in contours
Part of my learning process is to see things as they are and this, for a start, involves creating a number of contour drawings. Principally I »
Day 5: Kitchen utensils in wireframe
The skill that I'm trying to master at the moment is being able to view objects as they really are and to observe where there are »
Day 4: Drawing trees in the woods
Today my learning took a different path as I joined a group of like-minded students for a drawing session in our local woodland. The reason for »
Day 3: Contour drawing of an onion
Moving on from learning to see as an artist Claire Watson Garcia's next step is to introduce three-dimensional objects and capturing these through contours. The principle »
Day 2: Another upside down drawing
In line with my owl drawing yesterday Claire Watson Garcia, from Drawing for the Absolute & Utter Beginner, asked me to do another upside-down drawing today. »
Day 12: Tin cans and the impossibility of ellipses
The other day I mentioned accuracy in drawing and how important this technical ability is for creating convincing pictures. Often guidebooks mention that the secret to »
Day 1: Activating the artistic mind
One of the problems with drawing, for many people, is that they let their abstract mind get in the way. So rather than putting down the »
The Challenge: 365 Days of Drawing
About five years ago I got pretty interested in drawing, and art in general, and even attended a few classes. This proved to be great fun »
City Lit - Starting to Draw
For a long time now (and by that I mean years!) I've wanted to try my hand at something different, something artistic, like music or art. »