http://drawsketch.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hh http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2013-05-14T00:05:36Z Tue, 14 May 2013 00:05:36 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/05/14/now-what-developing-your-art-beyond-technique.htm Twenty years after art school, I still come across tips that are really quite 'basic' but that are new to me. I think we've always got room to improve, technically. ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/05/14/now-what-developing-your-art-beyond-technique.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/05/14/now-what-developing-your-art-beyond-technique.htm Tue, 14 May 2013 00:11:12 +0000 2013-05-14T00:11:12Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/05/14/drawing-a-brick-wall-in-perspective.htm <img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/drawsketch/1/0/g/d/brick-perspective.jpg" align="left">Probably the best way to draw a building in perspective is to trust your eyes and draw what you see. But when you don't have a handy brick wall in ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/05/14/drawing-a-brick-wall-in-perspective.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/05/14/drawing-a-brick-wall-in-perspective.htm Tue, 14 May 2013 00:05:36 +0000 2013-05-14T00:05:36Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/draw-a-chrysanthemum.htm <img src="http://0.tqn.com/d/drawsketch/1/0/4/d/chrysanthemum-blog.jpg" align="left" hspace="4">A favorite Mother's Day flower is the traditional Chrysanthemum. The elegant shapes of this bloom lend themselves well to a simple line drawing, which works in its own right, or ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/draw-a-chrysanthemum.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/draw-a-chrysanthemum.htm Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:58:03 +0000 2013-04-30T00:58:03Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/word-of-the-week-vitruvian-man.htm The title 'Vitruvian Man' sounds a bit like some sort of stone-encrusted Neanderthal remains! But the word 'Vitruvian' derives from the name given to the Roman engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/word-of-the-week-vitruvian-man.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/word-of-the-week-vitruvian-man.htm Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:10:57 +0000 2013-04-30T00:10:57Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/gestural-drawing.htm Gesture drawing, also called gestural drawing, is an expressive, intuitive drawing based on a close and thoughtful observation of the subject in space. Gesture drawing attempts to capture the essence ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/gestural-drawing.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/gestural-drawing.htm Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:10:39 +0000 2013-04-30T00:10:39Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/drawing-as-a-psychomotor-skill.htm I spend a lot of time talking about the importance of <b>seeing</b> in the drawing process. I generally think that beginners tend to worry too much about paper and pencil ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/drawing-as-a-psychomotor-skill.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/30/drawing-as-a-psychomotor-skill.htm Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:10:35 +0000 2013-04-30T00:10:35Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/23/pricing-your-art.htm How do you set a price on your art? This is a tough question. When a reader recently wrote asking how to fix a price on pencil drawings, I really ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/23/pricing-your-art.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/23/pricing-your-art.htm Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:45:46 +0000 2013-04-23T01:45:46Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/23/pen-and-ink-drawing.htm <img src="http://drawsketch.about.com/library/graphics/inkscumblesml.jpg" align="left">Pen and Ink is a beautiful medium. It is so simple - smooth paper, a bottle of ink, a nib and holder - you don't need much. Black line on ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/23/pen-and-ink-drawing.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/23/pen-and-ink-drawing.htm Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:50:42 +0000 2013-04-23T00:50:42Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/16/improving-your-drawing-middle-values.htm An error I've noticed in many beginner (and even more experienced) artists' work lately is a gap in the tonal range. Often artists will focus on the outlines, so these ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/16/improving-your-drawing-middle-values.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/04/16/improving-your-drawing-middle-values.htm Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:48:13 +0000 2013-04-16T00:48:13Z http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/03/30/copyright-strangling-art.htm I often use 'found images' in my work, but these days I'm so concerned about copyright that I tend not to. After reading '<a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/24/1064083041326.html">Copycat Commandos </a>' in <i>The Age</i> newspaper, ...<p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/03/30/copyright-strangling-art.htm">Read Full Post</a></p> http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2013/03/30/copyright-strangling-art.htm Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:23:03 +0000 2013-03-30T00:23:03Z