Hello Everyone, This week I wanted to write about perspective in art. Perspective and foreshortening is something that I found hard to do in drawing and it popped it’s head up the other week. I did try some sketches using references from Pinterest but found them well.. boring.                                   Find A Subject That Inspires You I bought a book a while ago on Manga art, a how ...

Hello Everyone, In week 6 I wrote a post about faces and having drawn mostly faces this week I noticed something, my faces now have ‘life’ in them, especially the eyes.  This has led me to write about faces part 2 how to constructively review your artwork as this is what I am going to do in this post.  Looking Back I know looking back is generally not good as we don’t want to dwell in the past but there are certain situations ...

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all having a great week.  Seven weeks ago I wrote a post about switching up your art which focused on changing from paper to digital.  This week I want to follow on from that a bit further to keeping it fresh and by that I mean keeping all the skills and techniques you have been learning and experimenting with over the last few months or however long up to date. Gaps That Take You Back To ...

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Hello Everyone, I hope you are all well.  This week I wanted to share that there’s more than one way to draw something. My sketches this week have been a bit all over the place. I have done noses, hairstyles, faces, mouths and a curvy lady. Different things on different days, whatever took my fancy. Learning I have also been watching lots of you tube tutorials as well.  Searching under how to draw, faces/noses/eyes/lips etc.  It helps me if I am lacking in any ...

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Hello Everyone, I hope you are all well and have had a good week of sketching.  This week I really wanted to write about how to draw things - the starting point. This week I have tackled some more dynamic figure poses, when I say dynamic I  mean ones that have a delicate balance, like standing on one leg or in a ballet dancers pose.  I also looked back at some of my art from earlier this year and can now see ...

Are you holding onto stuff? You’ve taken the leap. Congratulations, that was a brave move, one that was inevitable because you are a highly creative person, always seeking to improve. Then maybe you stopped at an unknown place unsure of your next move. If like myself, you lept and landed in a place of uncertainty, a place that feels a bit uncomfortable, that’s normal, it’s change or growth, a shift of paradigm. So what has that first paragraph got to do with ...

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all well. I was not sure what I was going to write about this week so I went to take the dog for a walk and saw a muntjac deer sprint across my path and down the orchard I was walking in.  It moved with such speed and grace and was gone in a flash, such fluid movement. Getting Into The Zone Then I looked back over my sketches for the week and it struck me that they ...

Hello Everyone, This week with my sketches I have focused in on legs.  Which has led me to write about 7 septs to improve your drawing topics. The week prior I found myself struggling with legs, I would do one leg pretty much perfect but the other leg…not so much.  There would always be something a bit off with it wether it was perspective or shape or just off balance in someway.  It’s a bit like eyes or the 3/4 face view, ...

Hello Everyone, This week I want to talk to you about sketching off days. Yep, they do happen and are a real pain in the butt. They usually happen for me after I have been on a good roll and then bam… off sketch day!  It totally throws me every time and I think ‘wwhhyyyyy’.  I get that shot of ‘im just not good at this’ and all the other mental negative blurb trot through my head, as I am sure you ...

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all well. This week I have gone back to fashion figures for drawing, where it all started from. Reference Photo’s I have been using reference photo’s to do them with and drawing them from scratch using a head proportion template I set up.  It’s just a vertical axis line with nine equal sections running down it which represent the size of the head as a unit of measure.  This is a very common method used for fashion illustrators.   ...

Hello Everyone, I hope you’re week has been good. The weather here in the UK has been amazing bringing with it a lightness of spirit. With that lightness of spirit it has motivated me to switch up my art. Change For Motivation This week I have switched things up a bit, watching a lot of YouTube art videos again, practicing with shading and light and going back to doing some fashion croquis poses.  I had narrowed in on faces but now I wanted ...

Hello Everyone, How has your week of sketching been? This week I get the sense I will be always learning, which is a good thing. Nothing ever stands still and this is the same for art.  It is always progressing and us, as artists are always learning. Learning Materials For me my go to’s for learning art are YouTube and books to get tips and tricks to try out and see what fits.  I found a tutorial about drawing the head using the Loomis ...

Hello Everyone, Forwards then Backwards, that’s how this week has been with my drawing. How has your week been? Instinctive Surprises This week I have drawn mostly faces trying out different angles and tilts of the head which has mostly gone ok although perspective gets me a little confused sometimes.  I have also been practicing with the line weight too on some of them. I then decided I would practice the fashion figure again and putting the head on there with the knowledge I ...

Need A Distraction? Do you need a distraction from the COVID-19 pandemic? Virtual tours in art galleries and museums are becoming a trend and will probably become an on demand routine. As we continue to navigate these extraordinary circumstances we live in, I noticed the art world is offering alternative options and taking steps to accept the reality of social distancing. Multimedia and digital marketing is making anything possible! The Virtual Experience With a virtual gallery tour, you see the inside of the ...

Hello Everyone, How has your week been? I have spent this week focusing on the basic proportions in my drawings and I finally feel like I am getting somewhere!                 Process I feel like after trying a few different methods of drawing faces, egg shape, oval, circle and triangle and the Loomis method that I have taken the best bits that work for me and found my own process. The majority of them have come from the ...

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected you in the arts community you are involved in? Local artists and I have been getting together regularly for years to discuss art, critique each others artwork, talk about resources, competitions, exhibitions and most of all - support each other. During this unprecedented time in everyones lives we are not able to do that anymore. For awhile anyways. However, I see an opportunity to share what I know with artists throughout the internet. You ...

Hello Everyone, It's that time of the week again :-) It occurred to me this week that when I started this challenge that I started out wanting to better my fashion illustration skills but i havn't done any for weeks. I seem to have morphed into faces and trying to master them which is totally ok.  A lot of times we start one way but end up moving in a different direction. Yellow Brick Road I however, am following my own yellow brick road! ...