All of these drawings are done on my Ipad using Procreate. The first two drawings are five-minute quick sketches. The third one is a 25-minute heightened drawing. Using an Ipad forces me to not draw “cute.” That is, it forces me to concentrate on the gesture of a pose and avoid getting caught up in… Continue reading Ipad Gesture Drawing
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Return to Watercolor
I'm working in my sketchbook a lot these days—almost no charcoal drawing at all. My dream is to have one place to put everything. All of my quick sketches, practices, study drawings, and paintings in one book. This is a watercolor 1/2-hour pose at Friday's open studio. I brought the scan of the original into… Continue reading Return to Watercolor
Vitality
I thought I had done a pretty good job on this 25-minute pose… until I got home and found that I had drawn the model with a sunken chest. So I made a few changes in Procreate. I tilted her head back a little and brought her back in under her shoulder blades, but most… Continue reading Vitality
Fifteen-Minute Sketch & Gottfried Bammes
This is the last drawing at last night's open drawing session at the Palette and Chisel. I did it on 18 x 24 inch Strathmore paper using vine charcoal, with a few touch-ups inProcreate on my Ipad. And here are some quotes from “The Complete Guide to Life Drawing,” the only complete English version of… Continue reading Fifteen-Minute Sketch & Gottfried Bammes
Second Ipad Drawing from Sketch
Here's my second Ipad drawing based on a figure drawing from quick sketch studio at the Palette and Chisel. Here's the woodcut by Hakutei Ishii (1882-1958) in Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989 that I based the composition on, and my original approximately 20-minute sketch:
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To the left is the original half-hour sketch I used to make the print below that I posted last time: And here's the 1934 Japanese print by Toraji Ishikawa titled “In the Bathroom” that I used for the basic design: The print went really quickly. It only took about 4 hours. Now I'm working… Continue reading Sources
Last Night’s Figure Sketch
Here's last night's most successful figure sketch translated into a Japanese woodcut-style image via Procreate app on iPad. I had a lot of fun working on this print. It's very loosely based on a print by Ishikawa Toraji that I found in Modern Japanese Prints 1912-1989 by Lawrence Smith, a book I've come back to… Continue reading Last Night’s Figure Sketch
Ipad Drawing of Back Alley in the Twin Cities
This is a new Ipad drawing from a photo I took about a year ago when I was in the Twin Cities for the big Rembrandt exhibit. This is about a block away from the Minnesota Institute of the Arts, where all the Rembrandts were. It was a great show and I learned a lot… Continue reading Ipad Drawing of Back Alley in the Twin Cities
Second Ipad Portrait of Richard
I worked on this because I wanted to try out some “new” techniques I saw in a video by west coast artist Shaddy Safadi about how to begin a digital landscape painting. I chose this picture because it had a very strong light-shadow pattern. Being a portrait instead of a landscape, the video didn't exactly… Continue reading Second Ipad Portrait of Richard
Portrait of a Friend
After my friend Richard saw a watercolor self-portrait I did a few weeks ago, he asked me to do his portrait and sent me some photographs to work from. He probably expected a watercolor, but this is the result, done using Procreate on my iPad. There's a lot more smoothing in this picture than I'm… Continue reading Portrait of a Friend
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