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Technique
Sketching and shading
I tried my hand at drawing an ear. Jack Hamm’s book helped me to get some feel about the general shape an ear should have (img040). Then I search for a photo of an ear and tried to draw that.
I found that I have the tendency to use to dark lines while sketching. The problem [...] -
Technique
Shaky
05.09.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAs I wrote in my last post “the difficult part of drawing a nose is getting a curved line at a specific distance of an other curved line”. I thought I should device some practice to get better at it and here it is.
What can I say. On the one hand it’s a boring exercise [...] -
Technique
Two single line ink drawings
As I wrote yesterday I tried my hand at some single line ink drawings.
The rules for single line drawings are very simple. You may double lines as often as need be, but you may never lift the pen of the paper.
If you do the drawing is finished.
So I did the first drawing yesterday. It’s of [...] -
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How to become an expert at any skill
Follow three rules and become an expert on any skill you love.
I had a discussion with my counselor about the whole talent thing. How I had decided to spent much more time on drawing (and less time on other things) because I think that will give me a change to become an expert.
She didn’t agree. [...] -
Technique
Study: Checkered black and white floor
04.06.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsTrying to get a natural white color.
Ever since I started drawing I’ve been thinking about how I could draw white surfaces. The problem being that I don’t have white pencils in my box and I want the surface to look natural white instead of paper white.
I’m not sure whether there is a difference between the [...] -
Technique
Playing with hatching techniques
Trying to influence the darkness of the color with different hatching techniques.
One of my biggest problems in drawing with color pencil has been my inability to control the darkness of a color.
For this practice drawing I decided to see what I could do to get a color darker or lighter.
I thought that both the number [...] -
Technique
How to learn to (cross) hatch
Rethinking my method of learning how to (cross) hatch.
This morning I remembered reading a site about improving your handwriting. The site advised to go back to basics and start over with practicing to draw a hundred A’s, a hundred B’s etc. just like the way you did it in school when you first where taught [...] -
Technique
Study: From boxes to beds
Figuring out what was wrong with my earlier boxes and finding out how to use the technique to create nice drawings.
I didn’t even have to read. Just flipping the page and looking at a few pictures was enough to realize why the boxes I’ve been drawing the last few weeks where so distorted.
They were meant [...] -
Technique
Like water color paint
Trying out a new approach to drawing with color pencil.
Ever since I started, I thought about drawing with color pencils as though it was a cross between Rembrandt and the way Bob Ross painted.
I thought that to get a nice picture I would have to cover the paper with a thick layer of pigment just [...] -
Technique
Drawing: Green chair
12.09.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsFinding that technique is as important as knowing how to look.
The last few weeks I’ve been drawing assignment out of the book “Drawing with the right side of your brain”.
Although I tried to draw what I saw I wasn’t satisfied with my last drawing of my chair. It felt like something was wrong but I [...]
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