Every budding artist should observe Tangent Awareness Day! The ability to spot this space killing compositional flaw will improve one’s art immensely and is something…
What do you do when faced with a difficult step of a project? Get right in there? Or waffle around a little, thinking of other…
Art mannequins – we’ve all seen them, and you’ve got to admit, they look a bit wooden. I’ve never thought they were helpful for drawing.…
I spent quite a bit of time drawing and revising the idea of a snake slide as a feature in my amusement park plan, only…
Excited to make my first people for this quilt. Upon starting this project, I challenged myself to improve both drawing skills and figurative representation. People…
My husband will repeat a tennis shot over and over to get the correct form into his muscle memory. While I wouldn’t do any sports…
I’m still on the subject of drinking and playing with how it will fit into my grand scheme of a plan for a quilt. I…
This slide functionally works. It’s size or something isn’t quite right, but good enough for now. I am pleased with the person coming out. And…
2 AM: Startled awake with a WTF moment! Last post I claimed to be getting better at recognizing errors with perspective. Yeah, but what about…
WHEN DRAWING IS DIFFICULT, GO BACK TO BOXES! The snake slide that I envision is a tough thing to draw. Not only do I want…
Man, I can really relate to this quote from Chuck Dixon, “Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to…
Bottle…drinking…downward slide – connects in my mind to: insidious poison, sneaking, slithering, evil snake oil. But, snakes and alcohol are not all bad. So again,…
I don’t want to say directly “shooting at people” but I do want to make this suggestion with a shooting gallery. I’ve even come up…
I continue to work out how my theme park will look by sketching out slightly different versions. One of my earliest sketches had the idea…
Background ideas are formulating. I like the Mousetrap game’s ladder and basket and the diving board person. They kind of just found their way into…
The rolling barrel entrance to a funhouse began with my thoughts on getting sucked into the internet, how I’m drawn into a dizzy-ing whirl of…
Position alters perspective, even more so when the type of perspective is distorted. Re-locating where an “attraction” is in my theme park will require me…
A lot of geometry going on here. it will be no easy thing to draw a funhouse entrance barrel convincingly. It is a basic cylinder…
Detail added to the gingerbread house, adding some people and the Food Court signage. One of my biggest fears is fire, so of course the…
Planning stage for some other buildings has started. A gingerbread house would be tasty – not only for its colorful appeal, but also for its…
I’m using a grid behind tracing paper for my drawings now. Newsprint was for quick sketches. Now I want to have a surface that will…
Here’s some crucial info that completely escaped me until lately: People of similar heights standing on flat ground, arranged from closest to farthest away, will…
This is my go-to for figure drawing reference. The simplified human anatomy, along with details of expression, age, clothing, gender differences are directly out of…
As I plan the positions and appearances of the structures in my landscape, I need to think about people in the same way. The human…
Now that I’ve decided to do a landscape view, and have more of an amusement park look rather than a solitary funhouse, I have to…
“Grok” is one of my favorite words. Thanks to Robert A. Heinlein for coining it in his 1961 science fiction novel, “Stranger in a Strange…
This perspective grid is what I’ll use for my drawing. There are many kinds of simple grids available for free on the internet. Try using…
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 and drawing courses…
Preliminary sketches – imagining how some ideas might fit together. These may not look anything like the final drawing for my quilt, but I’ve got…
Here’s the sketch for the warped reflections of social media. Love the idea of this. OK, how will I do this with fabric? – hmm,…
Another thought on pencils while I’m at it. Woodless graphite sticks can be sharpened like pencils, but all of the graphite is exposed, so more…
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 a pinch.) Quality…
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 more than stick…
Feels good to get rolling on this project…I’ve spent plenty of time on the conceptual part of my next art quilt, which has resulted in…