April 2008 Wow, it is already the 10th week of the class and time has really flied. It was a pleasure teaching you guys this term and hopefully you all have been able to find something useful from the notes.Here is the last batch of our demo series and I wish you all the best of luck and keep in touch!! Picturing Horses Welcome to another edition of “Picturing...” You don’t have to be an accomplished equestrian to see that horses are magnificent creatures—majestic, fierce, gentle, wise, often all at once. They are a staple throughout art history in general, as well as in fantasy illustration. Putting this collection together, it was tough to know when to stop building; the amount of fantastic drawing and painting about horses seems limitless. Above: Scandinavian folklore painter John Bauer. Duel in the Kulikovo, by Russian artist Michael Avila. Ivan Bilibin painted many horses while illustrating various Russian fairy tales. I started out strong with the Russian painters; here’s Viktor Vasnetsov’s somber A Knight at the Crossroads. Greg Manchess’s Cheyenne Medicine Hat, a children’s book about wild mustangs by author Brian Heinz. I could have included hundreds of great Western paintings, but with limited space, decided to let this Frank Tenney Johnson speak for the genre. Frank Craig’s Joan of Arc. Frank C.
37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO's Model? His Cleaning Lady Jason Fried is a founder and CEO of 37signals, a software company based in Chicago. Fried also treats 37signals as something of a laboratory for innovative workplace practices–such as a recent experiment in shortening the summer workweek to just four days. We caught up with Fried to learn how employees are like fossil fuels, how a business can be like a cancer, and how one of the entrepreneurs he admires most is his cleaning lady. FAST COMPANY: You have your employees only work four-day weeks in the summer. You’re saying you have people who actually want to stay the fifth day? How many employees would stay to work Fridays? Because you weren’t there! As CEO, wouldn’t it simply be rational to let people work the fifth day for you if they wanted? Are we reaching “peak people”? So you think there’s a slash-and-burn mentality in the tech world? You seem like too nice a guy to name names–but do you have certain companies in mind? Your business icon is your cleaning lady?
Sagaki Keita Bruno Bozzetto Channel A show reel of Italian Animator Bruno Bozzetto to introduce the "ANIMATION, MAESTRO!" exhibition at The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. Read more at "Bozzetto's work represents the perfect link between classic Disney style and a contemporary, modern approach to animation focused on storytelling, character development, brilliant design, and humor". "Bruno Bozzetto's films have been one of the greatest inspirations for me as an animator and storyteller. He has created some of the funniest animated films ever made and is one of the most clever storytellers around. ©Bruno Bozzetto. 5 Steps to Better Bird Drawing | Drawing The Motmot If you want to take your birding experience to another level (as if simply identifying fall warblers or 4-year gulls at a city dump weren’t challenging enough), try drawing them. Why not just take a photo and move on, you ask? Digiscoping is the fabulous, hot new thing, and I heartily and enviously applaud everyone who’s taken this up, hoping they will teach me how sometime soon. But there are a few good reasons to go low-tech here, and I covered some of them in an earlier post. One reason I put down the camera and picked up the sketchbook was simply practical: I was chasing birds in tropical, wet, dense, dark habitats with bad light and uncooperative subjects. 1) Establish Familiarity. 2) Learn Some Basic Anatomy. 3) Practice Short-term Memory Storage and Retrieval. 4) Draw An Egg. 5) Work Fast. That should get you started, now go draw! Update (June 2011)- many new bird drawings from this spring’s migration in New England. Like this: Like Loading...
Deja View Spectacular Moleskine Doodles Explode with Energy Philippines-based illustrator Kerby Rosanes proves that doodling can be so much more than scratching unintelligible scribbles on paper. Through his Sketchy Stories blog, Rosanes shares his wonderful world of doodling in a simple Moleskine sketchbook. Equipped with an ordinary Moleskine, a few Uni Pin drawing pens, and his innate gift for drawing, the artist is able to transport viewers to a world where tiny, cartoonish creatures explode with gusto to make up larger entities. Each of the illustrator's complex and crowded sketches are filled with minute details that allow the eye to wander and discover new characters and designs at every turn. Kerby Rosanes websiteKerby Rosanes on deviantART via [Gaks]
Dance drawings - karolfuldance In September two of my pieces got shortlisted for the New Lights exhibition. New Lights is a charity formed in 2010 to promote and support emerging young artists in contemporary art in the North of England. The judges this year have drawn a short-list of 50 works by 33 artists from 298 entries. I feel very privileged to be amongst them. These are the images of drawings that got shortlisted: On the Friday of 20th of September the exhibition had its private view in Mercer Gallery in Harrogate. The 2013 Prize Exhibition will run from 21 September until 17 November 2013. This year’s winner of £10,000 Valeria Sykes Award is Josie Jenkins - Congratulations! I was very pleased to have sold both of my drawings The 2013 New Lights Prize Winners - click here to learn more We’ve featured in online edition of the Independent newspaper.
Drawing Realistic Tiger With Pencil-Eyes » OnlyPencil Drawing Tutorials The eyes are the most important part of any pencil drawing. I believe its the part that you must dedicate the most time to. Without the eyes there is no life in the drawing. The secret to making realistic eyes are the subtle details that most us don’t see. Before i start the eyes on a drawing, i look at many reference photos to understand what i will drawing. Lets look at the image above to get understand what we will be drawing. Tools Used: Canson Bristol Vellum2b Mechanical Pencil2h Wooden Cased PencilColor ShaperKneaded EraserStylus(Empty Pen)Stylus(Needle Pen)4b Progresso PencilPaint Brush Step 1 The paper that i used for this drawing was Canson Bristol Vellum. Step 2 Now take your 2b mechanical pencil and outline the eye.The area outside this will be all black because of the shadows being cast from the area above. In this area i used the needle because the hairs are finer and will suggest single hairs. Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Take your paint brush and cover the area around the pupil. Step 6
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