Working Digitally!

I'm using my new Sentos Wacom Tablet ...

What I'm learning from Drawing Tutorials Online

I'm learning to draw much better now that I'm using the website, Drawing Tutorials Online.  It's well worth the effort to spend time on this site if you are just learning to draw or are a seasoned artist.

The work above is a study I did from the book: Cyclopedia Anatomicae by Feher.  It's a great book on Anatomy. 

I have found a new website that I joined to improve my drawing skills at
Drawing Tutorials Online and I'm am starting to see improvements in my own skill.

Learning from the Natural Way to Draw

I am learning from the book, "The Natural Way To Draw" by Kimon Nicolaides in which I have the freedom to "scribble. He has quite a drawing plan for for students and I find it exhausting but well worth the effort. I am using a ball point pen and watercolor pencil to make this sketch. With pen and ink, it's like a performance, you don't know what you get and if you make a mistake you move on so there is no going back.

Thumbnails.

When I paint, I like to make little thumbnail sketches or paintings. I liked this one so much as a painting
That I scanned it in.

Quick Sketch Painting

I've been reading the book "The Practice and Science of Drawing" by Harold Speed which is a good book on drawing and creating good artistic work. This is a very simplistic quick sketch of Plate 23 of the book. I've got a long way to go to master the paint but that is my challenge. I noticed that I had a difficult time with the paint but I was working on a small scale. ( It's more like a thumbnail sketch.)

I went to Nathan Fowkes Class and he admonishes us to turn off the TV and do hundreds of the kinds of sketches. His work is amazing and worth the effort to take his class.

I continue to work on the Asaro Planes of the Head and site sizing.
Once I scan the image in I can really see the mistakes I've made.
(It's there for all the world to see.)
I need to work on my line which I'm trying to hide as I go.
I have not really got the handle on using the newsprint and the charcol so I've decided to go to charcol paper to see if
that works any better... we'll find out.