This upside down position was my favorite pose of the session.
Author Archives: rtsallie
Graffiti
Graffiti is the most honest art form available. A wall has always been the best place to publish your work. — Robin “Banksy” Cunningham
January Art Notes
Drawing is thinking. Every drawing is a learning experience. Just work and your ‘style’ will emerge. There are no shortcuts to a good drawing. Making one involves work. A bit of perseverance is better than talent. If I draw every day, I will get where I want to go. Wonky is good. And also, finishedContinue reading “January Art Notes”
January Daily Bugs
These bugs were drawn 1 or 2 daily from reference photos or imagination during January 2020.
Gesture Life Study
My Sketchbook School mentor introduced me a different way to do life drawing. She notice that I am focusing a lot on contour, and not on the overall volume and movement of the figure. She told me that true gesture drawing captures the movement, or “story” of the pose. She showed me that I canContinue reading “Gesture Life Study”
Gestures
A gesture drawing is a laying in of the action, form, and pose of a model/figure. Typical situations involve an artist drawing a series of poses taken by a model in a short amount of time, often as little as 10 seconds, or as long as 5 minutes. This is my Mentors line of action.Continue reading “Gestures”
Continuous Line Blind and Mostly Blind Contours
Continual Line Contour with a pen is the best technique I have found to learn to slow down and look.
Relentless Robin 