A New Way To Do Value Studies!
I shared the new surround-view images of the statues I posted about last week and was thinking about the mistake I made of photographing at a too-fast shutter speed, resulting in unnecessarily noisy images, and fell into the rabbit hole of looking for solutions.
New Statues On The Website
I have been doing my memory-drawing exercises with a twist: I try to draw things rotated from imagination. This also forces me to understand the underlying simplified 3D forms and to come up with the details you only see from other angles.
The Art Of Noticing (Five Things)
And how it will make you and others better artists.What to do instead of doom-scrolling on your phone? Well, put your phone away, lock in to something near you, and start studying it, noticing five things about it. It will make you a better artist!
An Intervention!!!
And I am still in denial.A few extremely kind souls on the Discord banded together and took a lot of time to convince me to slow down, take a step back, stop coding on the website, and think of the bigger picture for the website.
Is There Such A Thing As Being Original?
Something extraordinary is happening lately: after one of my newsletters goes out, a larger YouTube account happens to release a video on the same topic!
Two Opposing Views On Art Block
One of my mother’s best friends, Jill, an artist, just started a podcast, and the first episode is fantastic! It is delightful to listen to while drawing.
Many Cool Updates To The Website
I haven’t been reporting on all the cool new features added to the website recently. That is because I was too busy creating these cool things! Someone is helping me go over the website, actually using it, and reporting on where it can be improved, which has sped up the process considerably.
The 20/80 Rule For Drawing Practice
Many people on our Discord want to “practice the fundamentals first” before they are “ready” to do the thing they want to do. Draw boxes, learn perspective, anatomy, and so on, before starting to make comics.
On The Nature Of Habits
It would be helpful to read within the context of Practice Drawing This, because one common struggle is that we find it hard to find time to draw, but have no problem procrastinating by wasting hours on social media.
The Easy Way To Become The Best In The World At Something
You will only find out whether it is also a good idea after you try.
Doing The Drawing Exercises With Digital Tools
You can draw and specify colors and pen widths. White acts as an eraser because the drawing is blended with the reference image through a multiply blend mode.
Lessons From Michelangelo
There was a great Michelangelo exhibition at the Teylers Museum near me recently, and, of course, I had to go, with a camera to capture images for the Morning Sketches APP section.
When I'm Happy, I Play Better
What we artists can learn from a soccer player like Ronaldinho It sounds obvious that you should be disciplined to become good, but there is evidence that another route might be better, or at least as good: instead of practicing hard, “party hard”, have fun.
Dead Ends In Art Are Necessary In The Creative Process, Otherwise You Are Not Doing Anything New
I discovered the drawing-from-memory exercise, and it changed how I practice drawing.
Try To Get Into The Head Of Your Favorite Artists
Don’t copy their styles; try to get into their heads! Besides that side note, try to get into the head of your favorite artists. Try to understand what must be going on in their mind as they draw. Then copy
that.
ALWAYS Work From Reference! Observation, Or Memory
He also mentioned somewhere that he’d memorize a stack of photos and draw them from memory.
What Would THEY Say?
Imagining teachers in your head.Play this little game while you look critically at your work: what would this teacher say? What would that artist advise?
The Media You Consume Has A Huge Impact On The Images You Create
When you are an artist, input informs output. Curate the media you consume.
Learning To Draw Is Also About Unlearning Bad Habits
When we set out to learn to draw realistically, we need to “unlearn” that so that we can see the abstract shapes in front of us and copy them to our paper, so the same scene magically re-appears.
Change Your Tools, Change How You See
The advantages of using lots of different drawing tools.Change up your art materials and notice how they make you look at the world differently. Then, return to your preferred medium and notice how it is now informed by your experiences with the other material.
How To Use The Website, A Guide In The Making!
It is also an introduction to all the resources on the website.I am excited to announce that I am creating a the guide to How To Use This Website!
It Is Not A Stupid Question To Ask Yourself
But it is a good idea to think about that for a while because knowing where you want to be in the long term makes short-term decision-making easier.
Stay Away From THESE Artists
They are not worth listening to, but be kind to them, you don't know the deamons they are fighting.Without having even looked at it!
It Is Not About Drawing Accurately, But Rather About Drawing Visually Pleasing Art
Clouds, trees, dragons. They do not have a specific way they should look; you can vary a lot, and the result will still look good, which makes it fun to draw them.
