65 – Ouch!
2 AM: Startled awake with a WTF moment! Last post I claimed to be getting better at recognizing errors with perspective. Yeah,…
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64 – Playing with boxes
WHEN DRAWING IS DIFFICULT, GO BACK TO BOXES! The snake slide that I envision is a tough thing to draw. Not only…
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52 – Finding your center
A lot of geometry going on here. it will be no easy thing to draw a funhouse entrance barrel convincingly. It is…
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48 – Eye see!
Here’s some crucial info that completely escaped me until lately: People of similar heights standing on flat ground, arranged from closest to…
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42 – Stranger in a strange land
“Grok” is one of my favorite words. Thanks to Robert A. Heinlein for coining it in his 1961 science fiction novel, “Stranger…
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41 – Using a perspective grid
This perspective grid is what I’ll use for my drawing. There are many kinds of simple grids available for free on the…
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40 – The amazing art of Kim Jung Gi
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…
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39 – Panoramic drawing example
The artist John Lee granted permission for me to use his drawing in this post as a good example of the type…
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38 – Perspective beyond the normal range of vision
You can get lost in all the information about perspective drawing that is available on Google. I had never used a perspective…
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37 – Beauty in a mathematical grid
My previous thoughts on Perspective Drawing Art Instruction = math, angles, geometry = let’s not go there: Yes, classic math avoidance syndrome!…
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36 – What you see is just an illusion!
How do you become a better artist, a better anything? Identify what needs improvement, then learn and practice.I need to study up…
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34 – Perspective is all about relationships
An imaginative world requires convincing size, shape and space in order to be believable. Photographs can give me the basics of how…