136 – Tangent Awareness Day
Every budding artist should observe Tangent Awareness Day! The ability to spot this space killing compositional flaw will improve one’s art immensely…
Every budding artist should observe Tangent Awareness Day! The ability to spot this space killing compositional flaw will improve one’s art immensely…
What do you do when faced with a difficult step of a project? Get right in there? Or waffle around a little,…
Art mannequins – we’ve all seen them, and you’ve got to admit, they look a bit wooden. I’ve never thought they were…
I spent quite a bit of time drawing and revising the idea of a snake slide as a feature in my amusement…
Excited to make my first people for this quilt. Upon starting this project, I challenged myself to improve both drawing skills and…
My husband will repeat a tennis shot over and over to get the correct form into his muscle memory. While I wouldn’t…
I’m still on the subject of drinking and playing with how it will fit into my grand scheme of a plan for…
This slide functionally works. It’s size or something isn’t quite right, but good enough for now. I am pleased with the person…
2 AM: Startled awake with a WTF moment! Last post I claimed to be getting better at recognizing errors with perspective. Yeah,…
WHEN DRAWING IS DIFFICULT, GO BACK TO BOXES! The snake slide that I envision is a tough thing to draw. Not only…
Man, I can really relate to this quote from Chuck Dixon, “Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the…
Bottle…drinking…downward slide – connects in my mind to: insidious poison, sneaking, slithering, evil snake oil. But, snakes and alcohol are not all…
I don’t want to say directly “shooting at people” but I do want to make this suggestion with a shooting gallery. I’ve…
I continue to work out how my theme park will look by sketching out slightly different versions. One of my earliest sketches…
Background ideas are formulating. I like the Mousetrap game’s ladder and basket and the diving board person. They kind of just found…
The rolling barrel entrance to a funhouse began with my thoughts on getting sucked into the internet, how I’m drawn into a…
Position alters perspective, even more so when the type of perspective is distorted. Re-locating where an “attraction” is in my theme park…
A lot of geometry going on here. it will be no easy thing to draw a funhouse entrance barrel convincingly. It is…
Detail added to the gingerbread house, adding some people and the Food Court signage. One of my biggest fears is fire, so…
Planning stage for some other buildings has started. A gingerbread house would be tasty – not only for its colorful appeal, but…
I’m using a grid behind tracing paper for my drawings now. Newsprint was for quick sketches. Now I want to have a…
Here’s some crucial info that completely escaped me until lately: People of similar heights standing on flat ground, arranged from closest to…
This is my go-to for figure drawing reference. The simplified human anatomy, along with details of expression, age, clothing, gender differences are…
As I plan the positions and appearances of the structures in my landscape, I need to think about people in the same…
Now that I’ve decided to do a landscape view, and have more of an amusement park look rather than a solitary funhouse,…
“Grok” is one of my favorite words. Thanks to Robert A. Heinlein for coining it in his 1961 science fiction novel, “Stranger…
This perspective grid is what I’ll use for my drawing. There are many kinds of simple grids available for free on the…
The South Korean artist named Kim Jung Gi creates absolutely amazing drawings using unusual perspectives. Here’s his website: https://www.kimjunggius.com/pages/about-artist There’s links to videos…
Preliminary sketches – imagining how some ideas might fit together. These may not look anything like the final drawing for my quilt,…
Here’s the sketch for the warped reflections of social media. Love the idea of this. OK, how will I do this with…
Another thought on pencils while I’m at it. Woodless graphite sticks can be sharpened like pencils, but all of the graphite is…
The Art Supply Providing the Most Bang for the Buck:the lowly pencil.Not the mundane, yellow #2 bubble-fillers (although those will do in…
There aren’t many drawings in my journals. Sometimes I’ll do a pictionary-quick sketch to remind myself about what I was thinking; nothing…
Feels good to get rolling on this project…I’ve spent plenty of time on the conceptual part of my next art quilt, which…