Day 22: Drawing irregular objects
Continuing with Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner I've now moved onto drawing asymmetrical objects. The reason for this is that most subjects can't be »
Day 21: Drawing in the fresh air
I've decided that one of the things which I should do during this year of drawing is to mix things up a bit. So rather than »
Day 20: Drawing with x-ray vision
One of the practices suggested in Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner is to take a group of symmetrical objects and to draw them as »
Day 19: Water lilies at the Barbican
This lunchtime I returned to the Barbican intending to seek out a quiet spot next to the ponds. Originally I intended to draw a close-up of »
Day 18: Bastions in the Barbican
With a nice sunny lunchtime in prospect I wandered down to the Barber Surgeons Garden next to the Barbican Estate. It's a rather delightful, secluded spot »
Day 17: Visiting the Museum of London
Today I fancied stepping away from the practicing and learning which I've been doing lately; instead I took myself down to the Museum of London to »
Day 16: Cylinders, bowls and bottles
In Drawing for the Absolute, and Utter Beginner I continued my practice this evening by moving onto more complete shapes based upon lines, ellipses and circles. »
Day 15: Anyone for a cup of tea?
Yesterday I was thinking about warm-up exercises for drawing as, when you think about it, it's not very reasonable to think that you can just sit »
Day 14: Line and circle practice
Following on from yesterday's ellipse practice I returned to Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner and started on Chapter 3 - Adding Accuracy. This is »
Day 13: Practice of the ellipse
Following on from my thoughts yesterday on how tricky it is to draw ellipses accurately I decided on some focused practice today. To get this off »