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So, I picked up the toddler from nursery tonight and we were at home making paper chains just before bathtime, and my husband’s talking about the Christmas party at nursery tomorrow. “Do you want to wear your Santa outfit or your bee costume?’ he asks, innocently.
“No, Daddy! I want to wear a SNOWFLAKE costume”.
Uh. Right.
I’m […]

Colleague and I slipped out of the office this lunch time to visit an Open Studio event. I was extremely surprised to find that a company whose products I’ve seen in all the glossy magazines is actually local to my home town of Brighton - and their studio was just down the road. Sukie make […]

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. […]

Painting on newspaper is something you can happily do with kids. It’s cheap and disposable, and if you line the entire floor with it, they can’t go off the edges and onto the carpet.
But there’s a little more to it too, for the Draw Anyway artist (isn’t there always?).
Number 1, that disposability allows you to […]

This shouldn’t be a problem for the average, busy Draw Anyway reader: after a long day of work or child-care or whatever else takes up most of your time, the chances are that you haven’t got much energy left for thinking out a well-planned picture. So the idea is to see what comes out if […]

Certainly, all the best artists would tell you that it’s a good thing to occasionally let accidents happen, and see where they lead you. Actually, drawing is, in a strange way, an attempt to strike a balance between being in perfect control of your media, and introducing a note of reckless abandon.
Yes, many years of […]

 
If you sometimes get dissatisfied with your personal style of drawing, there are a few ways to shake yourself out of it. Surprise yourself with your drawing and you might just find your enthusiasm again.
One artist I met while I was a life model became so entirely adept at drawing the human frame after […]

 
Faces and people seem to be one of those subjects that can get people throwing their pencil down in frustration, perhaps because it’s the thing they most want to draw, and yet one of the hardest subjects to get an immediate grip of.
My advice: just keep on trying. You aren’t going to get any worse.
This […]

Regular readers of Drawanyway will know full well that it preaches a slapdash approach to drawing. Precise, careful illustrators with o.oooo1 Rotring pens and set squares might be advised to avert their eyes for this particular post. Unless, you know, they are trying to loosen up a bit more.
OK, have the very precise artists left […]

A blogmate recently (and unbeknownst to him, no doubt, since he was talking about something slightly different!) reminded me of a good technique for looking objectively at our drawings. I’m pretty sure the same technique is detailed in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain*, which I’ve mentioned before. Ad infinitum. I’m not […]