Link to 26 lessons at the Incredible @rt Department and CartoonArtClub.
Draw cartoon people, animals, made-up creatures, places. The same principles apply whether your cartoon is intended to be funny or sad.
Monday 26 December 2011
Monday 19 December 2011
Photography/Art
If you want to join in with a never-ending debate, you can ask yourself Is photography art?
Or you can consider the many photographs that inform our culture - in magazines, ads, hoardings - and wonder if you'd include them in your definition of art.
Go taking pictures in the village. Or go looking on the internet for inspiration.
Landscape and architecture, people, still life.
Or you can consider the many photographs that inform our culture - in magazines, ads, hoardings - and wonder if you'd include them in your definition of art.
Go taking pictures in the village. Or go looking on the internet for inspiration.
Landscape and architecture, people, still life.
Monday 12 December 2011
Dress
I hear one of the Arseface dollies is about to have a fashion redirect.
Check out the history of costume starting on this page: Dress, fashion and social change. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the picture icon Next when you are done; on following pages you can take a quick tour through costume in history.
I hope to see Arseface showing off her new couture down the catwalk soon. But watch out! You have a critical audience! I'm going to engage the designers in talk about the inspirations they've found and the impacts they want to have.
(And if they don't have any, I'll put Arseface in the freezer until they come up with some.)
Check out the history of costume starting on this page: Dress, fashion and social change. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the picture icon Next when you are done; on following pages you can take a quick tour through costume in history.
I hope to see Arseface showing off her new couture down the catwalk soon. But watch out! You have a critical audience! I'm going to engage the designers in talk about the inspirations they've found and the impacts they want to have.
(And if they don't have any, I'll put Arseface in the freezer until they come up with some.)
Monday 5 December 2011
Grab a sketchbook and pencil
Draw.
If you want to make objects or people appear rounded - as if they're growing from the page - experiment in using your pencil in varieties of density and pressure to create all grey tones. Control those grey tones to take your drawing smoothly from white to black.
Keep a big contrast between the light and dark areas of your drawing. Take the dark to black and the white to gleaming. An eraser will help blend the greys in the transition and ensure the light areas stay light.
Watch how an artist who's better accomplished than me creates a water droplet. (Last time I tried drawing a water droplet someone thought it was a standard lamp.)
If you want to make objects or people appear rounded - as if they're growing from the page - experiment in using your pencil in varieties of density and pressure to create all grey tones. Control those grey tones to take your drawing smoothly from white to black.
Keep a big contrast between the light and dark areas of your drawing. Take the dark to black and the white to gleaming. An eraser will help blend the greys in the transition and ensure the light areas stay light.
Watch how an artist who's better accomplished than me creates a water droplet. (Last time I tried drawing a water droplet someone thought it was a standard lamp.)
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