Portrait Sketching

A portrait study from the other day, It's a copy from a John Bradshaw Crandall painting.

Tom Lovell Studies

I've been making my way through my new (incredible) Tom Lovell book. I'm amazed at how simple he keeps his compositions. Everything seems to be kept within 4 simple tones: Black, dark grey, light grey, and white. So, I've been going through the book and every time I see a really stunning composition, I do a quick little marker study. Here's one:

Hands

Just working my way through the Famous Artist Course. Today I had to draw some hands. So here are some sketchy homework hands.

It's Been a Year

Last year in August I decided I wanted to post at least 52 times by next August (this August) and I have. I think this is number 58 since then. So, that's cool. I'm sure its been educational to me somehow over the past year. I try to post about once a week. I think I'll try to keep it up for another year; If anything, just to look back.

Here are some recent Famous Artist Course drawings I did this week.

a boot

a backpack

Brush and Ink

Some of the homework I have in the Famous Artist Course is to do a bunch of "fashion drawings" from magazines. I've been doing some in pencil, gouache, wash, ink etc. This is the first time i tried brush and ink, and I really liked it. Something about using a brush to draw with is satisfying. 

So here's a brush and ink drawing of Nina Dobrev. I know who she is because my wife used to watch Vampire Diaries... 

I may or may not have also seen a few episodes as well.