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 »
Day 12: Tin cans and the impossibility of ellipses
The other day I mentioned accuracy in drawing and how important this technical ability is for creating convincing pictures. Often guidebooks mention that the secret to »
Day 11: Seeing the wood for the trees
A week ago I joined a local drawing class as we ventured into a nearby wood and did our best to capture the spirit of the »
Day 10: Moving onto overlapping objects
A suggestion, from my guide book, it that once you've attempted a few contour drawings of individual objects then it's useful to move onto groups of »
Day 9: Carrots are very hard to draw
I've been reading the third chapter of Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner and it's all about accuracy. By this I mean refining your ability »
Day 8: Crazy looking chef upside-down
One recurring theme from the book which I'm following (Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner) is the importance of practice, practice and practice. Every time »