From this week of early morning drawing sessions, I completed four small Rembrandt copies. The book I got these from is “The Complete Etchings of Rembrandt“. A lot of the etchings are pretty small, so my drawings are all a...
My favorite way to show off progress in learning art journey is to redraw something already done before. It’s a lot of fun and honestly, I think, people love seeing that improvement in your work. I’ve redrawn portraits before, but...
Lately, one of my favorite books to learn from about portrait drawing is “The Human Figure” by John H. Vanderpoel. The book is practical and easy to follow. It’s broken up into manageable segments and allows you to learn and...
I’ve started work on Bargue Plate 24. Its a plate I’ve wanted to copy for some time now, and I’m happy to finally get it going. I’m doing this one in charcoal and so far I have only used vine...
Updates on some progress. Most recently, I completed a part of Bargue Plate 4. Plate 4 has many ears using Nitram Charcoal. Since I was using the actual book as reference and not a blown up copy of the plate,...
I completed Bargue Plate 2: Mouths and Noses. I liked these a lot. This has 6 images, the first is a line drawing of a mouth and nose at different angles. Then next to each images is a more refined...
As I was going through the Bargue Drawing Course book again, I was reading into the first Bargue Plate 1 – 4. These have simple drawings of eyes, mouths, profiles, and ears. I tried figuring out if it’s typical to...
My first Bargue Plate is finally completed. As mentioned previously, I did Plate #22, which is one I had done before. I did this because I love seeing my own progress. The last time I drew this was in 2014....
I know, I know. I keep talking about it, now where is the drawing? I have started my first Bargue Plate drawing for this self-taught drawing course. If you want to call it that. I’m doing Plate 22, which is...
Hello again! A new day, a new drawing, a new video. Things really fell in place for this Kate Middleton drawing, and I had a lot of fun doing it and didn’t feel the struggle I had felt in the...