If you don’t want your children to become artists, don’t praise their drawings.
Drawing is the basis of art. Every artwork I do starts as a drawing. Everything. The reason why I use wire so much in my sculptures is because it’s the closest thing to drawing lines.
Not a sex toy.
Learn to draw and everything about art will make some sort of sense. The best way to learn is to draw as much as you can, for that you will need a sketchbook.
Like every artist I know, my first sketchbooks were the notebooks I used for boring classes. I seriously don’t know how I passed anything since most of my notebooks are filled of stupid sh*t like this:
Algebra?
But then my sculpture class teacher gave me my first real sketchbook. After that I’ve always had a sketchbook with me wherever I went. And before I had internet access to my phone, drawing in my sketchbook would occupy those times when I was absolutely bored out of my mind:
No I don't care if it was already invented ( and is more efficiently designed than this), I invented the refillable pen!
And before I had a camera phone, capturing something cool was drawing it in my sketchbook.
You can't really ask a street performer to stay still, especially if their performance is making music, and also I didn't speak Italian.
In college, I was introduced to charcoal. This messy medium that somehow, no matter how hard I try not to, ends up on my face. To me, if you’re working big, finding the dark to light values and blending is much easier with charcoal. You learn to use a variety of erasers to help with the blending and value change as well.
Look she chose the fetal position as a pose I swear!
This model got mad at me for drawing her nostrils too big.
It’s been a while since I’ve tried honing my drawing skills. I mean I draw cartoonish stuff everyday, but trying to draw something that doesn’t look cartoonish is something I haven’t done in a while. So before I got started on a recently commissioned drawing, I did a warm up for a friend:
Click on the image and you'll find why he's Batman
And it’s a good thing I did this practice drawing, because that up there took a while to finish. Seriously, I didn’t think it would be that hard to jump right back to drawing something not cartoonish. Now that I think about it, I don’t even think I succeeded.
Anyways, I started on the commissioned drawing and surprisingly, only a few things held me back but otherwise I think the end result looked pretty good.
Now, I think I shall draw some more……after I play angry birds.
