Links tagged with “drawing”
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Root System Drawings - Wageningen University & Research - Image Collections
40 years worth of drawings of plant roots. More interesting than it might sound.
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On Edward Hopper by Mark Strand | The New York Review of Books
I particularly like the first half, on Hopper’s preparatory drawings. “It was not that he needed to be sure how to paint a sugar dispenser or salt shaker as in Nighthawks (1942), but that they should become his.”
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‘The Matt Ward Manoeuvre’ Part 2: Techniques and tips… exercises in drawing
As with the previous part, this makes me want to do more drawing. Maybe this time…
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Sketching Out of My Comfort Zone: A Type Design Experiment | Typographica
A nice post about doing a sketch of a new typeface every day.
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Matthew Diffee
I liked the drawing in a ‘New Yorker’ cartoon of this chap’s, Googled him, and lots of his other cartoons are funny too. Nice.
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Free Andrew Loomis Art Intstruction Downloads « Escape From Illustration Island
Some lovely old copyright-free books on figure drawing as PDFs. (via Ministry of Type)
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LRB · Bridget Riley: At the End of My Pencil
Bridget Riley on why she draws and how her paintings developed. Good, although it all sounds more straighforward than I imagine it was.
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Urban Sketchers
I’m very much enjoying this so far. A group weblog from dozens of sketching people in cities around the world. Some inspiring stuff.
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Alexandre Day
I like these drawings. Verge slightly on the too twee, with those winsome eyes, but I love the marks. (via Drawn!)
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Ironic Sans: The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists
What the people who do the drawings of court proceedings draw/paint when not in court. I like Patrick Flynn’s court work there. (via Drawn!)
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Iain tait | crackunit.com » Blog Archive » Courses I’d Love to Do
What would you like to learn? (via Russell Davies)
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Pulse Laser: Drawing Olinda
Splendid piece by Jack Schulze on how they came up with ideas for the form of their exciting-sounding digital radio prototype for the BBC.
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The Fate of the Artist - Alan Moore’s London
Eddie Campbell on the photographic references he used to draw ‘From Hell’. (via Rodcorp)
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Mattias Adolfsson
Wonderful, solid, sketchy drawings. Click the “Drawing” or “Sketch Books” links. Inspiring. (via Drawn!)
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Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts critics | It’s not as easy as it looks
Jonathan Jones on learning to draw (via Rodcorp).
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Process Recess
Some gorgeous life drawings on this illustrator’s weblog. (via Drawn.ca)
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Drawn! The Illustration Blog
My new favourite weblog, full of inspiration. (via Boing Boing)