How to draw what we see. The spaces in between an object. An excellent Youtube Tedtalk by Ralph Ammer is well worth watching for the way he describes drawing. ralph ammer drawing Straight after watching it I went out to the back garden to do an exercise he suggested, when I drew the leaves & … Read more
Get out into nature with the smart phone & take close ups of flowers or plants. Put them on your computer & zoom in to draw/paint small A4 or A5 pictures. You can use acrylics ( the bright colours are perfect for flowers like Forget-me-nots), watercolour, oils, pastels, coloured pencils or just plain graphite pencils. … Read more
Getting close in on nature, plants & flowers can be a revelation. Plants we take for granted look very different when drawn with an intense, concentrated examination of the form & details. Spring is the perfect time for this, sketch wisteria buds one month then another sketch a month later reveals the transformation (see above). … Read more
I use the concept of yin/yang positive/negative in EVERY drawing I do! Its a way of thinking & seeing that makes drawing complicated forms possible. It was a revelation to me, many years ago when I first discovered it in the excellent – Drawing on the right side of the brain by Betty Edwards. the … Read more
I have always admired the way Mort Drucker draws hands, nobody draws them with such care so convincingly. Its true that the eyes of the viewer look at heads & hands first, so we have to get them right . They are as difficult to draw well – if not more so- as heads . … Read more
I thought it would be of interest to show the stages of the method I used for doing a very complicatedmultiple caricature for an army regiment I did recently. ( watercolour 24×20 inches)
SIMPLIFY! To tackle any drawing the 1st move is to simplify the scene you are faced with. Look past the surface and see the basic form. The details can wait till the drawing is just about done, then the details effortlessly fall into place like the icing on the cake. This is why, practising the … Read more
