I entered 3 drawings into the Arizona State Fair, 2 master copies and a portrait, and I did it not expecting anything to come of it. This weekend, I found out that my portrait won the blue ribbon and the top prize...
As a self-taught artist, are you always looking for ways that you can stop spinning your wheels and actually improve your portrait drawing? Have you spent years drawing every day, portrait after portrait and didn’t feel you were getting any...
A few weeks ago, I completed Bargue Plate 24 in graphite. I had started it, in charcoal and got about half way, but was feeling overwhelmed with the charcoal and wasn’t feeling I was going to reach the level of...
I don’t know how I had never heard of this artist before but I just discovered Bernard-Romain Julien. He’s a french artist that created many amazing drawings at the height of the classical realism movement that the Bargue Drawing Course came...
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...
I finished a drawing! Yay! It’s been a while. I chose to draw Bunny aka Grav3yardgirl. I’m a big fan of her YouTube channel, which is the first channel I ever subscribed to. She’s so funny and genuine and I’m...
I’m back and making speed drawing videos again. I had to figure it all out again since I don’t have access to the same equipment as before. I had to use my iphone to film it all. Although the quality...