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I’ve had sole charge of my two-and-three-quarters daughter for the last two days, so I’ve been trying to find ways to keep her entertained. An opportunity presented itself when our first Christmas card arrived from a nursery pal the other day. Once I’d got over the panic, I thought we’d better get moving with ours. […]

It’s always a good trick, this one, and incredibly simple to pull off: just leave one part of your picture untouched, and you will get an immediate focus on it. An easy yet effective stylistic flourish, if you will.
Just a quick note that if you are interested in Beautiful Doodles, the book mentioned in […]

Linzie Hunter, whose innovative Spam Art I mentioned in a previous post has contacted me to say that her images are now available to buy as prints - so if you are looking for that elusive Christmas present for your colleague, boss or friendly neighbourhood spammer, your prayers may have been answered. They’re available here. […]

I am especially fond of artists’ websites which show sketchbooks and work-in-progress, as illustrator and printmaker Alice Melvin’s does. She’s cherry-picked the best of her work, though, so a visit to the site only takes a few minutes, giving you instant inspiration. Lovely.

Rudimentary bed sketch
An early comment on a Draw Anyway post went along the lines of:
You’ve covered how to draw, where to draw, and when to draw, but not why to draw.
That person (hi, Sarah!) went on to say that she couldn’t really draw, and was quite happy that way.
Well, fair enough, I thought, […]

Bingo McDingo is another keen Draw Anyway reader who answered my recent plea for guest posts - and he did it in style, with a video post! Now, you might think you know everything about potato printing. You learned it in primary school, didn’t you? But I bet you can learn a few new […]

Draw Anyway is based on the principal that whether or not you can find the time, whether or not you think you can, you should put pen to paper and see what happens.
However, even I have to concede that there are not unlimited hours in the day. I have recently been given an excellent opportunity […]

A couple of weeks ago, Draw Anyway featured a post by Darryl Cunningham about his inimitable style of drawing buildings. I’m delighted to say that I now present his second offering, this time on how to paint with acrylics. Darryl writes:

Here’s a large acrylic painting I did on canvas, which was purchased by an American […]

Apologies if you’ve already seen this: it’s been cropping up on lots of different blogs over the last few days. I include it for those who haven’t yet seen it, because I was quite impressed by what it can do. Vector Magic is intended for the use of those designing logos. By changing an image […]

Welcome to the weekend. Here’s the weekly round-up: all posts are still open for your comments and contributions.
> On Monday, I suggested drawing things close to home.
> On Tuesday, I had some off-beat suggestions for finding a life model.
> On Wednesday, I wrote a little bit about self portraits.
> On Thursday, I noticed that a […]