The difficulties of iPad sketching were getting in the way, so I've gone back to traditional media. This is last Friday open drawing at the Palette and Chisel. A half-hour pose which I first sketched in pencil then painted in gouache and finished up with ballpoint pen. I was really inspired by a great… Continue reading Beyond iPad
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More iPad Quick Sketch
About a half-hour quick sketch from an online Croquis Cafe pose by Rhus. I've been reading about photoshop painting techniques and for this I used layers for the background texture and to make adjustments to the skin color. Plus I used the alpha lock feature in Procreate to lighten the color of the original line… Continue reading More iPad Quick Sketch
Half Hour iPad Quick Sketch
In Procreate with “post-production” glazing for texture, from an on-line Croquis Cafe video. It's really hard to draw decent curves, among other things. The model has a real Picasso-esque face. Posted with Blogsy
Pushing Electrons Around
Latest iPad quick sketch. Procreate custom brushes. Thirty minutes. Done after watching a Steve Huston video on shading. Posted with Blogsy
The Plan
Here’s a plan for the typical three-hour quick sketch session: First half-hour—One- and three-minute poses. Follow the example of Michael Hampton’s Figure Drawing: Design and Invention, p. 38, and focus on the placement of landmarks. Second half-hour—Five-minute poses. Start with the same landmarks, but add more volume and contour. … Continue reading The Plan
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
Moleskin Gouache Figure
Putting this figure on two pages is almost ironic, since you could pretty much divide it down the middle vertically and say the right side held together pretty well—nice edge where the right side of her back is in front of her right arm; nice substantial right leg and buttock; decent head angle. This against… Continue reading Moleskin Gouache Figure
Gouache in Chicago
I'm finally back in Chicago on Fridays: 1, 5, 10, and 15 minute sketches in charcoal, and 30 minutes in pencil and gouache. This painting was done in my 5 x 8 inch Moleskine sketchbook, so the lighting is different above and below the fold. I'm looking for larger paper that takes the paint (or… Continue reading Gouache in Chicago
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
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