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Sketch Book Series: Early Face Drawing Attempts (Dec 2007)

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Drawing faces was difficult to begin with. My eye didn’t quite understand the proper proportions. I’ve become much better at more realistic faces over the years. Observation was only part of the learning curve; seeing the proportions in ‘how to’ books was a big part of the process.

One Thing At a Time

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I was looking through my (modern) copy of John Ruskin’s The Elements of Drawing, which was first published in 1857. His advice to those learning to draw was to observe nature. For instance, he noted that most people think that grass in the shade is the same color as grass in the sun. However, if […]