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Here, for the curious, is the result of yesterday’s plane flight: And here is this morning’s doodle: Drawing, particularly in color, is a dicey thing for me. Because it’s an unfamiliar medium, I don’t have a lot of skills to draw on, and am thus acutely self-conscious about starting a piece, because I “know” it’s [...]
I decided that if I was going to try using Adobe Illustrator for fashion design, I had better learn a bit about Illustrator first! So I took some time off from finishing Kodachrome and spent 2-3 hours with Illustrator instead. It was fun! and I’m planning to continue studying via online tutorials. Here is what [...]
I’m back to drawing! I’ve switched over from Nicolaides’ The Natural Way to Draw to Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson, primarily because Nicolaides’ book requires a live model for many of the exercises, and I haven’t got one. However, I’m coming back to a lot of the exercises in The Natural Way to Draw [...]
I bet you were wondering, amidst all this philosophizing and weaving, whether I was actually doing any drawing. The answer is yes, I’m devoting about an hour a day to practicing. I just haven’t posted any photos because gesture drawings and contour drawings aren’t really intended as drawings; they’re exercises, and not all that visually [...]
The dust is still settling in my creative life, as I shift my focus from the now-completed dye study group to other things. Transitions are always tricky, and I don’t feel that I’ve found my creative balance/focus yet. But things are rapidly starting to settle into place: an hour of drawing on Monday, Wednesday, and [...]
