Artventure
This is a personal journal documenting my studies in art - mainly just a place to keep notes and to organize my thoughts better than I could in a handwritten journal (you can't do a search in a paper journal, or post live links). My ultimate goal is oil painting, but I want to start with developing my grasp of the basics in drawing.
Monday, April 22, 2024
Practicing Portrait Drawing
Blocking in Color in Light and Shadow
Some good stuff here. I like this approach—get the line drawing, block in carefully, and then refine and render. He does what I do—add in each new color on its own layer so you can fiddle around with it until it looks right, then paste it down.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Note to Self
Don't let Google 'find' the video by inputting the title—even the exact title cut and pasted in. For some reason it can't do that. What do you think it is, a powerful search engine or something? Sheesh! You need to paste in the URL—and not the one from the top bar. It can't find it with that either. You need to right-click on the video and use that shortened URL. Wish there was something that explained that somewhere, you just need to fumble aorund until you figure it out.
Simplifying the Arm with Emilio Dekure
Monday, March 25, 2024
Exploring Edges with Lane Brown
Monday, June 12, 2023
Shape Language for drawings
This almost seems like David Finch giving away the secret of why his drawings look the way they do. I remember when I was revisiting a particular Fafhrd painting a while back it bothered me that the simple curves everywhere made it look feminine and soft, so I squared it all up, which helped. I found a sort of compromise between the harder straight lines and the softer curves, but this is a much more advanced approach. Definitely worth playing around with.