Thoughts on Narrative Figure Drawing
This is a series of pieces about life drawing and what I call ‘character’ figure drawing, what is more commonly referred to as costume figure drawing. It is my focus in teaching in the third year of Sheridan’s animation program and in my own work.
Sketching From Velásquez in the Prado
In a recent dive into a box of old sketchbooks, I came upon a drawing I had sketched in Madrid on a winter afternoon. I had drawn it in the Prado in a small battered hardbound sketchbook that I had carried around Europe. It was a copy of a Diego Velásquez painting The Boy From […]
Virtual Life: Drawing the Figure Onscreen
Life Drawing Online in the Age of COVID There are still no in-person life drawing sessions. No more community drawing sessions with an ever-shifting tribe of artists, students, and other enthusiasts gathering for the ritual of drawing the human figure from life. No more costume figure classes at the art college, with models dressed as […]
Drawing With Twigs
I am often on the lookout for opportunities to spark my drawing practice. Sometimes it’s just a matter of keeping my eyes open. On this day, I was heading into the school from the parking lot to teach a class on ink drawing one chilly dawning morning in late November. A gnarly tangle of bent […]