Artist Studio
This week, I am going to show you one of my favorite lessons for learning about complex and varied shapes. The shapes are made up of many objects but still read as one interesting passage of darks or lights. This will help you in getting past the idea of painting everything that is possible to paint about a subject. Editing and interpretation are essential for making personal and creative works of art.
Using your own face as your subject matter is not only good practice for your drawing skills, which always needs honing, but it is also fun to change your personality through exaggeration and creative use of color, and line. I am posting a whole series of them that I did and you can see that although I am having fun I am still being serious to the look and features that are unique to me. Try this and let your alter ego come out.
I’m sitting here in the studio today looking over many months of my watercolor figure paintings and I am struck by how varied they are, many of them I would not do them same way today. It is not that I was trying to be different in each painting, it was that I was teaching a variety of lessons on alternatives to a traditional line drawing and correct color approach to the figure. There is nothing at all wrong with getting a nice gestural drawing on the paper with a wonderful feeling of exaggerated contours and expressive angles followed by a colorful series of transparent washes, really striving for a strong representational feeling.
Today our creative jumpstart will again focus on our drawing, and I want you to really keep the efforts short and concise. Use a broad tipped drawing tool preferable one that is very soft so you can really move on its edge and work a nice range of values. I am using a 6B pencil
Draw Something Everyday Draw something everyday, now I know that sounds daunting, but its not, and then again what is your goal, if it is to be a talented artist than your drawing skills are important. Relying forever on the lame excuse that you can’t draw and then tracing photos will not get you there.
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