Category: Drawing

  •   I had these today for class. Some critiques: tweak headlines -> Eat our good grades. and Take the Pop and Sizzle Quiz. Make the image complement the headline and perhaps play with type to match a graded paper. I have a week to carry these as far as I can go. It’s time for some food…

  • I spent an hour working on these thumbnails. It is a good amount of time to be working on these things. Not too long that you get invested in the nuances of the typography, but enough that you would have something to talk about. I spent an hour prior brainstorming, coming up with ideas related…

  • At the Drawing Club meeting this week, we started by drawing a still life of gourds. After getting warmed up, Jill showed up briefly and mentioned Exaggeration which led nicely into the talk that ensued about group drawing. There are many ways to collaborate, generate ideas and draw together. At the meeting, we did a…

  • Drawing Club activities: Today, after our Guest Speaker, we practiced Blind contour and negative space drawing. We had a guest speaker. Our very own Tom Lenon. Today’s topic: Thumbnailing. (A lot of this post is Tom’s instruction paraphrased… all the witticisms are his.) Tom lamented that thumbnailing is a technique being lost because of technology.…

  • Today was the first meeting of Drawing Group/Club/Class. We had a 15 min sketch time, drawing from real life. Introduction to Blind Contour drawing (without looking at what you are drawing, try to capture the shape of your subject in a single fluid line). Use your pencil. Use it hardly, softly, violently. Find ways to…

  • Today, I illustrated a boat. I was going for a cartoony look, but my style doesn’t lend itself to exaggerated proportions, varying outline and flat color, so I turned to software for help. 1) I sketched a boat in an angle I thought was dynamic. I used a ball point pen. 2) I sketched the…

  • I’m working on an alphabet poster with Mr. Yoks. He’s terrible at counting. According to my chart, there are three 20th letters in the alphabet. Pen and ink.