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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, […]

So, yesterday I wrote about cheap ways of getting a life model. One thing I didn’t mention is that there’s one model who will never let you down, never be hard to get hold of and will always be around when you need them - and that is yourself.
So long as you have access to […]

When I was a life model, I earned the princely sum of £6.00 per hour, and I am sure the rate has gone up since then. Some serious artists used to book me to model for them alone; more often I’d be modelling for a class, and my pay would be made up from everyone’s […]

What shall I draw, oh, what shall I draw? When picking a subject, it’s easy to think that Art (with a capital ‘a’) has to be all about Grand Themes and sweeping drapes and ladies in half-swoons and empires crumbling beneath a mighty army. Well, if you wait for an army to pass by on […]

If you had to tell a story with pictures, the chances are your first thought would be to do so with a sequential series - perhaps even a comic strip. But stories can be told with a single picture. It’s kind of killing me that the best example I can think of is the […]

Here in Brighton, you can’t walk anywhere at the moment without shuffling through piles of fallen leaves. I love it, not least for the random patterns they make on the pavement. Some things in nature are always going to provide interesting shapes to tackle: leaves, clouds, water. But just at the moment, it’s […]

Regrettably, I have to say, the view from the desk I sit at at work is not the most inspiring. There is, however, one eye-catching element; the tall floodlights that overlook the local cricket ground, which happens to be just across the road from my office.
The other day, I noticed them in particular, because they […]

We are very lucky to have a post by Darryl Cunningham today. Darryl, whose regular strip has recently started appearing on the Forbidden Planet blog, is an illustrator and cartoonist who specialises in very detailed cityscapes, so writing about buildings seems the obvious choice.

Darryl writes: I don’t know how to teach people to draw buildings, […]

 
 Linzie Hunter: Spam one-liners
For a while now I’ve been planning to write about using words and letters in, or as, images. Perhaps because my toddler is at the stage where we’re reading a lot of ABC books and playing with a lot of alphabet toys, or perhaps because I’ve always had a liking for signs and […]

At the risk of becoming a blog purely about competitions, I thought I’d just mention a intriguing contest being run by Moo cards just now. In case you don’t know, Moo are a company who cleverly segue with your Flickr account to allow for a very easy way to print business cards and postcards. Like […]