DRAWING EXERCISES

257 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : FEBRUARY 2023

257 • THIS MONTH AT ART CLASS : FEBRUARY 2023

This month at Art Class, I ave a been mostly Doing My Best :) In this ‘One Time At Art Class‘ episode I look back over the past few weeks of Saturday Morning Sketching Sessions.

Co-host lilDENNiS and Kitty were here to talk about:

Sketching People in Public,
Having Limited Time to Draw,
Trying to Mix Paint Colours,
The Beauty of Decay,
Breaking Habits,
How Birds Wings Look Like Hearts,
Fabulous Figures by Jane Davenport Art Book,
How Fat People are Beautiful Shapes,
Turning Lines into Characters,
and I Love Drawing Old Victorian Lamp Posts :)

Hope you enjoy this month at Art Class episode :)

119 • CDQ ARTICLE ‘FOUR-WORD CHARACTERIZATION WITH DUNG HO’

119 • CDQ ARTICLE ‘FOUR-WORD CHARACTERIZATION WITH DUNG HO’

An Art-Ickle in Issue 5 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled ‘Four-Word Characterization, with Dung Ho’ was the topic for this weeks episode, and I found this one to be super powerful.

Topics covered on this one include:

Dealing with the Overwhelm of a Blank Canvas,
How Story is Everywhere,
Wondering What Happens to Discarded Ideas,
Turning Words into Characters,
How to Get Started,
Ways to Engage the Viewer,
and Being Mindful of What Your Drawing :)

lilDENNiS also introduces us to his new girlfriend lol

Hope you like this one :)

106 – CDQ ARTICLE ‘THE LANGUAGE OF SHAPES, WITH TOM HÄNNI’

106 – CDQ ARTICLE ‘THE LANGUAGE OF SHAPES, WITH TOM HÄNNI’

An Art-Ickle in Issue 11 of the Character Design Quarterly Magazine, entitled ‘A Quick Guide To Composing Characters, with Katarzyna Olbromska’ is the topic of this weeks episode; and it’s a super fascinating one about the importance and power of a Characters Backstory.

This one covers stuff like

Thumbnailing,
Creating Characters Backstory,
Shapes,
Balance,
Colours,
Silhouettes,
and Katarzyna Olbromska’s Cool Characters.

Funny the cat joined us for this one and decided to sit on the computer during recording lol, but I do hope you enjoy this one :)

98 – WHAT’S ON ME BOOKSHELF? PART TWO

98 – WHAT’S ON ME BOOKSHELF? PART TWO

Books! I love even more books in this episode, which is part two of looking at the Art and Spiritual Books currently on me bookshelf.

Part one covered mostly Spiritual Books, while this one is mostly Art Books.

Some of the Books and tings covered include:

Color And Light by James Gurney,
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield,
The Natural Way To Draw by Nicolaides,
Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu-Mestre,
Perspective Made Easy by Ernest R. Norling,
The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell,
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho,
Video Game Books,
My Perspective Struggles,
and Entities.

Hope you like it :)

84 – BURNING MY 20,000 GESTURE DRAWINGS

84 – BURNING MY 20,000 GESTURE DRAWINGS

The Drawing exercise Gesture Drawing and Letting Go of Art are the main topics for this one, as I attempt to burn my 20,000 Gesture Drawings; Five years worth of Gesture Drawing go up in smoke, or do they? Dun dun dun lol

I cover a lot of tings on this one,

Gesture Drawing resources – QuickPoses and Croquis Cafe,
Traditional vs Digital,
The KOH-I-NOOR Clutch Pencil with Magic Coloured Leads,
Proko’s Figure Drawing Course,
Practicing Bad Habits,
Should you start your Gestures with the Head?,
Facing Fears,
and How the Mind is a Nobhead!

You’ll hear Fireworks exploding in the background at times, as I recorded this one spur of the moment on Halloween night, KA-BOOM! Think it adds a bit of ambiance to the episode :)

I had an aha! Moment during this one … I realised Gesture Drawing isn’t about collecting your Drawings, it’s about showing up to do the Drawing Exercise.

*sniff sniff*

Can you smell burning? I know I can lol

Hope you have fun with this one :)

25 – SPONTANEOUS A TO Z OF ART

25 – SPONTANEOUS A TO Z OF ART

This lil episode is all about Crap Drawings, well, part of it is … this is my Spontaneous A to Z of Art, where I run through the alphabet and say the first art related word that springs to mind and talk about it. We have

C for Crap Drawings,
B for Boring Exercises,
O for Orange and
I for Inspiration, at one point K was for King Kong lol this one gets a bit nutty at times :)

24 – COPYING OTHER ARTISTS WORK

24 – COPYING OTHER ARTISTS WORK

This lil episode is all about copying other artists work, not the naughty kind of copying, but the drawing exercise that’s a fun way to play and learn at the same time :)

We also have a new ‘lil art tips’ feature joining the podcast this week, woohoo lol