Modified Contour Drawing

Pure contour drawing is the process of drawing without looking down at your paper. It's a very slow and methodical technique. Blind contour drawings never really look "correct", but they are some of the most truthful expressions of the way an object looks.

Modified contour drawing employs some of the same techniques, but you are allowed to look at your paper every once in a while. Working from edge to edge and surface to surface, I was able to create a pretty accurate line drawing.

Drawing every day is the goal I set for myself this year - and it seems to be paying off.

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Ice Skating Characters

A Competent Profile

As I start to become more familiar with proportions and measurements for the various faces I attempt to draw, I am starting to wonder how to make a more complete portrait with my limited time. Do I stick to lines? Do I bring a brush and some ink? Which lines should I include? Which shapes are important to represent? Maybe this is a good time to look at the work other artists have done and try to work out some of their methods.

Inktober Day 3 - "Bait"

Old school pen and ink. I haven't used a crow quill pen since high school - and, even then, I remember struggling to get it to work. This time, I thought I would try to create something using only cross-hatching. The prompt word today is "bait". This word took me into a lot of different ideas, but the one I ultimately landed on is based on the will-o-wisp. In my head, I imagined glowing orbs in front of a copse of swamp trees all created with layers of cross-hatching. Things had to be scaled back a bit. There are still two trees in the background if you look hard enough. Success? Sort of. It forced me to use a different kind of pen and, in doing so, made me want to keep going and get better with it.

Rainbow Bisque

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